Skikos Crawford Skikos & Joseph

Law Firm Overview

A Law Firm With an Outstanding Reputation

The attorneys of Skikos Crawford Skikos & Joseph have practiced law together for over twenty years and have earned an outstanding nationwide reputation for excellence.

Dedicated to Protecting Your Rights

Our attorneys are dedicated to protecting the rights of individuals and businesses that have been injured or wronged.

Our principal attorneys have practiced together since the early 1990s. At the law firm of Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, they helped build that firm's national pharmaceutical drug and medical device litigation practice. Since the creation of Skikos Crawford Skikos & Joseph, our reputation for quality legal representation, especially in the area of mass torts, has continued to grow.

Nationally Recognized Leaders

We are recognized as national leaders in defective drug and medical device mass tort litigations. We handle all aspects of pharmaceutical drug and other complex litigations, including investigation, individual case handling, individual and national discovery, law and motion, settlement, trial and appellate work.

Lawyers at our firm have taken a leadership role many mass tort cases, a sampling of those cases and our leadership roles include:

• Baycol Litigation
  • California Coordinated Proceeding: Liaison Counsel
• Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents
  • MDL: Plaintiffs' Executive Committee; Plaintiffs' Steering Committee
• Metabolife (Ephedra)
  • California Coordinated Proceeding: Liaison Counsel
• Ortho-Evra
  • MDL: Liaison Counsel; Court Appointed Mediator; Science/Medicine Committee
• PPA Litigation
  • California Coordinated Proceeding: Co-Liaison Counsel
• Reglan
  • California Coordinated Proceeding: Co-Liaison Counsel
• Rezulin
  • California Coordinated Proceeding: Co-Liaison Counsel; Science and Expert Committee
• In Re Toyota Motor Cases
  • Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
• Yaz, Yamsin & Ocella
  • MDL: State-Federal Liaison Counsel to the California Coordinate Proceeding; Discovery Committee; Science Committee
  • California Coordinated Proceeding: Plaintiffs' Executive Committee; Plaintiffs' Co-Liaison Counsel
• Vioxx
  • California Coordinated Proceeding: Plaintiffs' Executive Committee
• We have acted as lead or co-lead negotiator in several litigations, including: Zyprexa, Zicam, Vioxx

In addition to defective drug and medical device mass tort litigations, we represent injury victims in cases involving other types of defective products, toxic exposures and personal injuries. We also represent insurance policyholders in disputes with their insurance companies, and employees who are victims of illegal workplace discrimination, harassment and illegal wage and hour practices.

We take on some of the largest and most powerful corporations in the country and we get results for our clients. In the process, we have earned a national reputation for excellence.

Areas of Practice

• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Products Liability Law

West Practice Categories

Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Products Liability Law