Richard Golomb

Richard Golomb is an of-counsel attorney with Anapol Weiss in the firm's Mass Tort Department. He is a founding partner of Golomb Legal where, for more than 35 years , he has represented those who have been catastrophically injured as a result of medical negligence, defective products, dangerous drugs, construction accidents, and other personal injury claims. Mr. Golomb has served in leadership in more than a dozen multi-district litigations in pharmaceutical and consumer class action matters. As examples, Mr. Golomb has served on the Bank Overdraft MDL executive committee, which, to date, has recovered more than $1.3 billion dollars for consumers charged excessive overdraft fees through the re-sequencing of their transactions and as liaison counsel in the Benicar MDL, which settled for $358 million. He has also served as co-lead in a number of class actions against most of the major national banks for the deceptive sales and marketing of their payment protection products. To date, through these class actions and representation of various states through their Attorneys General, banks and credit card companies have been made to pay over $200 million. Additionally, Mr. Golomb currently serves in leadership positions in a number of MDL's and coordinated matters representing individuals in pharmaceutical mass tort cases, and represents more than 1300 women who have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer as a result of their perineal use of talcum powder .