Baron & Budd represented more than 200 families in a lawsuit that eventually closed the smelter and provided sizable damage awards for court-supervised trusts that benefited several hundred children.
The firm has also practiced widely in other areas of mass torts, including such matters as "Benzene exposure, Fen-Phen diet drug litigation and water contamination".
The record for a successful appeal was developed "[t]hanks largely to lawyers at Baron & Budd, a firm representing some of the objectors" which insured that "there were more than 30 depositions, other discovery, and an 18-day fairness hearing".
[10] In 2003, Baron & Budd represented the City of Santa Monica in a landmark MTBE contamination settlement with the major oil companies.
[1] In 2008, Baron & Budd played a lead role in negotiations with major oil companies that had contaminated drinking water through the use of MTBE as a gasoline additive.
[19] In September 2017, Baron & Budd was one of two firms hired to represent Brunswick County, North Carolina in the investigation of chemical contamination of drinking water drawn from the Cape Fear River, alleged to involve the manufacture of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) by Chemours, DuPont and Kuraray at a facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
In November 2016, Baron & Budd represented homeowners whose home appraisal fees had allegedly been marked up by the bank, and negotiated a $50 million settlement after winning certification of the claim as a class action.
[27] In 2017 Baron & Budd investigated potential lawsuits that were related to allegations that pharmaceutical distributors "deliberately failed to monitor and report suspicious orders of opioids".