Michael L. Baum

Los Angeles, California
phone (888) 406-6726
fax (310) 820-7444
Email Me mbaum@baumhedlundlaw.com Michael L. Baum

Michael L. Baum is the senior managing partner of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman. He has successfully led the firm through thousands of wrongful death and personal injury cases stemming from major pharmaceutical drug catastrophes and commercial transportation mass disasters. He began his career more than 25 years ago, primarily handling airline accidents and other commercial transportation disasters as well as some pharmaceutical product liability litigation. While he oversees all aspects of managing the firm, Michael currently heads the firm's pharmaceutical litigation department and focuses on drug product liability mass tort and class action litigation as well as whistleblower qui-tam actions. Michael has served on numerous trial teams and plaintiffs' steering committees in mass tort litigation involving pharmaceutical product liability cases as well as major airline crashes.

Under Michael's leadership, Baum Hedlund has developed a reputation as a law firm that can be counted upon to go above and beyond what is needed to get the job done; a firm that has successfully litigated personal injury, and wrongful death cases against major transportation companies such as Airbus, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Amtrak, Bell Helicopter Co., Beechcraft, Boeing, Cessna, China Eastern Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, EgyptAir, Ford Motor Co., McDonnell Douglas, Piper, Robinson Helicopter Co., Sikorsky, SwissAir, TACA Airlines, TWA, United Airlines, and US Airways, among many others.


Bar Admissions:: California, 1985
U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1986
U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1989; U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1989
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1990
U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 1991
U.S. Supreme Court, 1991
District of Columbia, 1993
U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1993
U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1996
U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 1996
U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1997
U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, 2009
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2009
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 2013
Education:

University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., summa cum laude, 1982)
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law (J.D., 1985)













Honors and Awards:: AV® 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated through Martindale Hubbell
Avvo.com Superb Score 10 out of 10
Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in American Law
Who's Who in the World
Aviation Counsel Magazine's List of Recommended High Flyers
National Air Disaster Foundation Safety Award, 2002
Selected to: Southern California Super Lawyers, 2005, 2012


Professional Associations and Memberships:: State Bar of California
The District of Columbia Bar; Bar Association of the District of Columbia; Consumer Attorneys of California
American Association for Justice: Qui Tam Litigation Group; Actos Litigation Group;
Section on Toxic, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Torts (STEP); Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL 817, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa, 1989
Supporter, Public Citizen's Civil Justice Project
Trial Team Member, 1991-1992, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa: Member, 1989
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL 891, Northwest Airlines Crash, Detroit, 1990
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL 1041, USAir 1016 Aircrash of Charlotte, North Carolina, 1994
Trial Team Member, 1997, USAir 1016 Aircrash of Charlotte, North Carolina, 1994
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Illinois State Court Proceedings for USAir 427 Aircrash near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, 1994
Lead Counsel for 125 Consolidated Complex Biological-Medical Products Liability Cases, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1997-2001
Trial Team Member, Consolidated Hemophilia-AIDS Cases, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1999
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL-1574, Paxil Products Liability Litigation
Speeches/Lectures:
         Speaker, "Case Theories, Challenges and Case Selection Considerations for Your Actos Inventory," Plaintiff Forum on Pharmaceutical Litigation, Transvaginal Mesh, Actos, and Orthopedic Devices. HB Litigation Conferences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 5, 2012
         "Roundtable: Legal Issues," Selling Sickness 2013, People Before Profits, Session VI, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., February 20-22, 2013
         Speaker, "Litigation Update and Trial Analysis Roundtable: Actos Trial Analysis," AAJ Education's Plaintiff-Only Pharmaceuticals and Medical Device Litigation Update Seminar exclusively for AAJ Plaintiff Trial Lawyers and presented with Mass Torts Made Perfect, Louisville Marriott Downtown, Louisville, Kentucky, May 28 - 29, 2013

Government Testimony:

         Taiwan's Ministry of Health emergency meeting regarding hemophilia HIV contaminated medication, February 18, 2004
Representative Cases:: In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1052 (Dist. South Carolina 1995); In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1056 (Dist. South Carolina 1996); In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1060 (Dist. South Carolina 1996); In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1071 (Dist. South Carolina 1995); Ex parte Knight Ridder, Inc., 982 F.Supp. 1080 (Dist. South Carolina 1997); In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1084 (Dist. South Carolina 1997); In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1086 (Dist. South Carolina 1997); In re Air Crash at Charlotte, N.C. on July 2, 1994, 982 F.Supp. 1092 (Dist. South Carolina 1997); Smith v. Cutter Biological, 770 So. 2d 392 (La. App. 4th Cir. 2000); Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, 403 F. 3d 631 (9th Cir. 2005); Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, 40 Cal.4th 623, 151 P.3d 1151 (2007); Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, 54 Cal.Rptr.3d 735 (2007); Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, 482 F. 3d 1131 (9th Cir. 2007); Collins v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 2008 WL 744070 (Pa. Ct.Com.Pl. 2008)
Representative Clients:: Plaintiffs Counsel, Adventure Airlines Crash, Grand Canyon, AZ, 1992; Plaintiffs Counsel, Amtrak Train Crash, Camden, South Carolina, 1991; Plaintiffs Counsel, Amtrak/Conrail Train Crash, Chase, Maryland, 1987; Plaintiffs Counsel, Arrow Air Crash, Gander, Newfoundland, 1985; Plaintiffs Counsel, Cessna 210 Air Crash, Manassas, Virginia, 1990; Plaintiffs Counsel, CommutAir (USAir) Airlines Crash, Saranac Lake, NY; Plaintiffs Counsel, Continental Express Crash, Durango, Colorado, 1988; Plaintiffs Counsel, Dalkon-Shield Litigation, 1984; Plaintiffs Counsel, Delta Airlines Crash, Dallas, Texas, 1988; Plaintiffs Counsel, Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire, San Juan, PR, 1986; Plaintiffs Counsel, Grand Canyon Airlines Crash, Phoenix, AZ, 1989; Plaintiffs Counsel, Hawaii Helicopters Crash, Maui, 1992; Plaintiffs Counsel, L-Tryptophan Drug Litigation, 1990; Plaintiffs Counsel, Northwest Airlines Crash, Detroit, 1987; Plaintiffs Counsel, Northwest Airlines Crash, Detroit, 1990; Plaintiffs Counsel, Prozac Drug Litigation, 1990; Plaintiffs Counsel, Scenic Air Tours Airline Crash, Hawaii, 1989; Plaintiffs Counsel, Tropic Air Crash, Belize, 1991; Plaintiffs Counsel, United Airlines Crash, Colorado Springs, CO, 1991; Plaintiffs Counsel, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa, 1989; Plaintiffs Counsel, USAir Airlines Crash, Flushing, New York, 1992; Plaintiffs Counsel, USAir/Skywest Airlines Crash, Los Angeles, 1991