REICH & BINSTOCK - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Counsel for the City of Houston
Dennis Reich has been involved in many complex and nationally significant cases over his career as a trial attorney. Mr. Reich has served as lead or co-lead counsel in many large-scale environmental and toxic tort injury cases where cancer causation issues were the focus of the litigation. He has also played a key role in numerous MDL proceedings and has been appointed to multiple Plaintiff Steering Committees. Additionally, Mr. Reich has represented refinery, railroad, farmers, agricultural workers, and airplane mechanics who were exposed to various neurotoxic solvents and carcinogens that produced a spectrum of neurological injuries and hematological cancers. He has also represented residential clients residing in close proximity to superfund sites who suffered neurotoxic injuries to exposures from lead, pesticides, and various solvents.
Currently, Mr. Reich serves as counsel for the City of Houston, Travis County, and Nueces County of Texas in MDL No. 18-0358; In Re: Texas Opioid Litigation. He is also the chairman of the Expert Witness Committee in that litigation. Mr. Reich was recently appointed by United States District Judge; Eastern District of Michigan Judith Levy as special subclass counsel in the Civil Action No. 5:16-cv-1044-JEL MKM; Flint Water Cases (settlement pending). Mr. Reich is also an active member of the Taxotere MDL 2740 Settlement Negotiating Team and participates in the Science Committee appointed by the former Chief Judge of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Additionally, Mr. Reich served as a member of the PSC for the Risperdal Litigation: JCCP 4775 in Los Angeles, California. In 2021, Mr. Reich was unanimously approved by the commissioner's court of Harris County Texas as counsel for Harris county in No. 21- STCV12418; Re: Harris County vs. Juul Labs Product cases in JCCP 5052 in Los Angeles, California.