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Howard Janet

With more than 25 years of experience in the complex field of representing victims of medical negligence, Mr. Janet has been recognized in the media as a leading medical malpractice attorney. He has been honored by his peers with inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® and in Maryland Super Lawyers®. Mr. Janet's accomplishments, which include the largest medical malpractice verdict ever won in the District of Columbia ($24 Million) and largest verdict in Minnesota for a child with cerebral palsy ($15.5Million), have been reported by USA Today, Dateline NBC, Jet Magazine, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun and affiliates of ABC, CBS and NBC. Mr. Janet has obtained numerous multi-million dollar recoveries for his clients for injuries ranging from birth injury and cerebral palsy to death, brain damage, quadriplegia, misdiagnosed cancer, amputation, stroke and heart attack.

In addition, Mr. Janet has expanded the rights of victims of medical malpractice by advocating and winning decisions that broadened the statute of limitations for wrongful death claims and established the right of brain damaged children to be compensated for future medical expenses when their parents' claims for those expenses are precluded by the statute of limitations.

Mr. Janet also has successfully represented people who received improper representation by their prior medical malpractice attorneys. Taking on these mishandled medical malpractice claims as legal malpractice claims against the prior attorneys, Mr. Janet has won multi-million dollar recoveries, including a $12 Million verdict for a previously botched anesthesia malpractice claim.

A testament to his reputation, most of Mr. Janet's cases have been referred to him by other attorneys from around the United States. Choosing from among all the law firms in the nation, these attorneys asked Mr. Janet, and the Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC, to represent their clients. The Medlaw Legal Team's representation of clients outside of Maryland, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania is undertaken in association with local counsel, and if suit is filed, with permission of the applicable court. Association with local counsel results in no additional legal fees to the client.

Mr. Janet is also an active leader in the legal community. In addition to having testified before legislative bodies regarding issues of concern to people injured by medical malpractice, Mr. Janet has lectured to fellow attorneys on such subjects as "Maximizing Your Results in a Medical Malpractice Case," "Birth Injuries and Brain Damage: Legal and Ethical Implications," "Wrongful Death," and "Settling a Medical or Legal Malpractice Case Before Suit." Mr. Janet also served on the National Legal Education Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association Program entitled, "The Experts Analyze Brain Damaged Baby Cases."

Mr. Janet is a past president of the Gary I. Strausberg Foundation, Inc., a private, nonprofit institution dedicated to "the professional education of the legal community and the education of the public on issues of safety, the civil justice system, and the role of the jury." Moreover, Mr. Janet has previously served as a Governor of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the MTLA President's Club as a Founder. Mr. Janet is a member of the Maryland Bar and the Bar of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Education

University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D - 1978 (cum laude)
University of Maryland, B.S. - 1976
Kappa Tau Alpha (Journalism Honor Society); Heuisler Honor Society

Robert Jenner

Robert K. Jenner brings to the Medlaw Legal Team more than 22 years experience representing injured consumers nation-wide against the manufacturers of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, tainted blood products, defective medical devices and contaminated food. Mr. Jenner has a national reputation as a tireless leader fighting against the world's manufacturers of dangerous drugs, and has recovered tens of millions of dollars for his clients. He has been honored by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and in Maryland's Super Lawyers (named in Top 50). Mr. Jenner has established a pharmaceutical liability division within the firm, assembling a team of attorneys, paralegals and health care professionals dedicated to prosecuting claims against those companies that manufacture and sell unreasonably dangerous drugs and medical devices.

Mr. Jenner is a Past President of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA) and currently sits on MTLA's Executive Committee. He is the former Vice-Chair of the Medical Malpractice Section, and has previously Chaired MTLA's Technology Committee, Marketing Committee, and its Education and Program Committee.

Mr. Jenner is also active with the >American Association for Justice (AAJ), serving as one of MTLA's State Governors to AAJ. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of AAJ's National College of Advocacy, and serves on many other standing committees. He is Chair of AAJ's Publications Committee, which oversees the publication of TRIAL magazine, the nation's largest and most reputable magazine for trial lawyers. Mr. Jenner is also a past Chair of AAJ's Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts. Mr. Jenner currently serves as Co-Chair of AAJ's Rezulin Litigation Group, and Vice-Chair of the Hormone Therapy Litigation Group. In addition, Mr. Jenner has formerly served as Chair of the Baycol Litigation Group, AIDS Litigation Group, Latex Toxicity Litigation Group, and HMO Litigation Group. In July 2002, 2003, and 2004, AAJ awarded him its Wiedemann-Wysocki Medal for his commitment to AAJ and the civil justice system.

A prolific author, Mr. Jenner has written more than 25 articles published in nationally recognized legal and health care journals, including "Rezulin: Fast Track to Failure," TRIAL (July, 2000); "Litigating Against the HMO," Maryland Trial Reporter (Summer 1999); "Putting the Gloves on to Fight Latex Protein Toxicity Syndrome," Regulatory Affairs Focus (July 1999); and "How to Attack Discovery Abuse," TRIAL (February 2002). In addition, Mr. Jenner is the author of the legal treatise on representing the victims of HIV acquired from defective blood products, Transfusion - Associated AIDS (Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co., 1995).

Mr. Jenner is also a frequent lecturer, having been invited to speak on medical-legal issues both nationally and internationally. Mr. Jenner has not only lectured for AAJ and MTLA, but also for the American Association of Blood Banks, American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, the Washington Claim Association, the Legal Education Institute, the National Business Institute, and the Institute for Paralegal Education. He has organized and moderated many acclaimed seminars in conjunction with AAJ's National College of Advocacy on the issues of Vioxx, Hormone Therapy, Baycol, Rezulin, and general pharmaceutical litigation.

Mr. Jenner is a member of the bars of both Maryland and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. Recently, Mr. Jenner was honored by his peers by being inducted into the International Society of Barristers, one of the country's most selective attorney honorary societies. He has obtained the highest rating (AV) by his peers as reflected in Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Jenner, his partner, Ken Suggs, and their pharmaceutical team are leaders in the effort to uncover the truth behind the drug companies' efforts to hide the breast cancer risks of menopausal hormone therapy. Mr. Jenner and Mr. Suggs sit on the Plaintiff's Steering Committee of the federal Multi-District Litigation for Hormone Therapy. They have teamed together with the country's finest law firms to uncover the truth about the deceptive promotion of Premarin, Provera and Prempro to millions of unsuspecting physicians and women.

He lives with his wife Lori, and children Matt and Nikki, in Columbia, Maryland. He is also an also an avid scuba diver and is always willing to take suggestions for great dive destinations.

Education

Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D. - 1985 (cum laude)
Franklin & Marshall College, B.A. - 1982

Kenneth Suggs

Kenneth M. Suggs, a principal in the firm, has leadership roles in the firm's medical negligence and pharmaceutical departments. A tireless champion of consumers for almost 30 years, Mr. Suggs has achieved remarkable successes for his clients along the way to becoming one of the country's leading trial lawyers.

Mr. Suggs graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1968. After graduating from Clemson, he served four years in the United States Navy, including two years in the Vietnam Theater. Following his return from the Service, Mr. Suggs earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1975 and began practicing trial law.

Mr. Suggs is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He is also a member of the Legal Affairs Committee and serves as co-chair of the Public Affairs Committee. Mr. Suggs is the 2006 recipient of the "Advocate of the Year" award presented by the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center. He has also attained recognition as a Fellow of the National College of Advocacy. He served as President of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association in 1981 and currently serves on its Board of Governors and Legislative Committee. Mr. Suggs was also awarded the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Public Citizen Award in 2002.

Mr. Suggs served as president of the Richland County Bar Association in 1999 and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is an Attorney Bencher for the American Inns of Court, John Belton O?Neall Chapter, and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has also served as a member of the US District Court Advisory Committee and was a co-draftsman of the South Carolina Rules of Evidence, later adopted by the South Carolina Supreme Court.

His alma mater, the University of South Carolina School of Law, selected him as the recipient of the Compleat Lawyer Award in 1998. He served on the Clemson University Board of Visitors (2000 - 2003), and was selected as a Clemson University Alumni Fellow in 2000.

From 1968 to 1972, Mr. Suggs served as a petty officer in the U.S. Navy. From 1970 to 1972, he was assigned to the intelligence branch of the Commander, Seventh Fleet, operating in the Vietnam theater. During that time, he was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Achievement Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, and an award from the government of South Vietnam, the Vietnamese Honor Medal.