Attorney Profiles

Asbestos and toxic exposure lawyers combining legal and scientific knowledge

Seeking justice one client at a time

Environmental Litigation Group, P.C. is a persistent and successful advocate for toxic and environmental exposure victims nationwide. We have particular experience litigating asbestos and other toxic torts in California, New York, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C.

Contact us for a free consultation and to see the difference 20 years of environmental litigation experience can make in your case. 

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Gregory A. Cade - Shareholder

Gregory A. Cade had the vision to form a national trial firm that litigates multi-plaintiff environmental cases throughout the United States. Greg is no stranger to the legal environmental community. Much of his understanding of worker and community exposure to toxic substances began several years ago while working as an industrial hygienist for the Environmental Litigation Group, P.C. An overwhelming understanding of the principles of toxic torts, quantitative analysis, and environmental law clearly carved a career for Greg in an area that is often avoided because of its complexity, time consumption, and financial risk.

Greg's dedication and greatest motivation is renewed every day while working with clients who have been negligently or intentionally victimized by unforgiving contaminants released into the environment and/or workplace.

Greg's overall success is based on simple principles that have brought satisfaction and legal stability at a fairly young age:

1. Listen to the client
2. Understand the laws and science that govern the case.

These philosophical principles have prompted several successful ventures as independent counsel and co-counsel involving worker and community exposures all over the Southeast.

Greg is currently handling thousands of individual and community claims. These stem from injuries due to exposure to creosote, coke emissions, benzene, dioxins, PAHs, PCBs, and other known toxicants.

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Hoyt Gregory Harp - Shareholder

Greg began working with ELG as a paralegal in 1994. During that time, Greg gained invaluable insight into the inner workings of filing, managing and prosecuting mass tort litigation. While working as a paralegal, Greg attended law school at night and upon completion of school and passage of the Alabama State Bar became a shareholder in the Firm.

While in law school, Greg served as lead counsel for his law school's Moot Court Trial Advocacy Team and was awarded Outstanding Trial Advocacy Student Award.

Greg is admitted to practice law in the state of Alabama; and in the United States District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama.

Greg firmly believes that the role of a trial lawyer is to protect the interest of those who could not otherwise obtain justice for themselves.

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Mark L. Rowe - Of Counsel

Mark L. Rowe is a former University professor and debate coach where his teams were consistently nationally ranked. As a student at the Cumberland School of Law, Rowe won the National Trial Competition and was selected Top Oral Advocate in the nation. Graduating in 1984, he represents injured people in courts throughout the State of Alabama.

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James L. “Larry” Wright – Of Counsel

Larry Wright's practice includes a broad range of civil litigation, with a focus on environmental and personal injury litigation. He is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™.

Larry is a 1984 honors graduate of the University of Houston Law School and a member of the Order of the Coif and Order of Barristers. He began his law career as a briefing attorney with Justice James P. Wallace, of the Texas Supreme Court, 1984-1985. After that, Larry was with the firm of Vinson & Elkins in their Austin office for five years before joining Mithoff & Jacks in 1990 (becoming a shareholder in 1992) and then the Watts Law Firm, L.L.P. in 2006.

Larry is currently a reviewer for the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and was a member of the Pattern Jury Charge Committee for the volume on Business, Consumer and Employment litigation. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), the American Association for Justice (AAJ), Austin Bar Association, Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association and he is a director of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA). He is licensed in Texas and Tennessee.

Larry is the lead author of the recent award-winning article, Remember the Alamo: The Seventh Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Doctrine of Incorporation, and State Caps on Jury Awards, 45 S. TEX. L. REV. 449 (2004). He is also the author of Jury Selection: The Plaintiffs Perspective, in the Summer 2005 edition of THE ADVOCATE. Larry has been a featured speaker at several CLE conferences, including most recently the 2004 Page Keeton Civil Litigation Conference and the 2005 Litigation Update Institute. He was course director of the 2008 Advanced Evidence and Discovery Institute. He is a Texas Monthly “Texas Super Lawyer” and a 2010 inductee into “The Best Lawyers in America” for Personal Injury.

Larry has had numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.

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Christina Wall – Associate

Christina Wall is the newest addition to ELG. She currently handles bankruptcy and probate issues for the firm’s cases. Additionally, she manages the firm’s Vioxx litigation. Christina began her legal career in 1999 working for Pittman, Dutton, Kirby & Hellums. While working full time as a paralegal, she earned her Bachelor of Science at the University of Alabama, and her law degree at the Birmingham School Of Law. Throughout her legal career, Ms. Wall has learned the essentials to managing a heavy case load and ensuring that the best possible outcomes are attained for her clients.

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