2010 Most Effective Lawyers:
Steven Marks, Podhurst Orseck

Eight years. Three cases. Four countries. Dozens of plaintiffs, one so grief stricken he stabbed to death the air traffic controller he held responsible. But finally aviation attorney Steven Marks’ work for families of dozens of Russian schoolchildren who died in a mid-air collision 35,000 feet over Germany in 2002 is nearing an end.