About

A partner in the Los Angles law office of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, R. Brent Wisner has spearheaded a range of class action and multi-district litigations against major pharmaceutical and chemical companies. In the pharmaceutical sector, R. Brent Wisner secured a multi-million-dollar jury verdict for injuries tied to the generic version of the brand-name drug Paxil.

Other highlights of Mr. Wisner’s career include serving on all three of the first cancer legal teams for trials related to Monsanto Roundup. As co-lead trial counsel for the first of these trials, he represented and advised groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson to a $289 million verdict in his favor. While serving as co-lead trial counsel for the third Monsanto case, he secured an even larger verdict of $2 billion.

R. Brent Wisner has shared what he learned during Monsanto litigation and other key phases of his career as a speaker at multiple seminars and conferences. He is also the author of multiple published articles, including Politics of Enforcement: How the Department of Justice Enforces the Civil False Claim and Asylum Denied: Seeking Asylum in the Age of Terrorism.