"Courts and the application of equal justice under the law protect us all as individuals against the powerful. Without this, we are at the mercy of big business, big government and big money. My motivation exists in compassion for our hurt clients seeking justice, who have been injured by the powerful, the greedy or the careless."

Gregory J. Bubalo, Managing Partner, is Board Certified in Civil Trial and Pretrial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy ("NBTA")*. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and 2013 and profiled in the publication Kentucky's Best Lawyers (Copyright Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Mr. Bubalo is qualified by his peers as AV, the highest possible rating by the legal publisher Martindale-Hubbell. In 2012, he was again elected to the Kentucky Justice Association's Board of Governors. He is a member of The Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum . He is admitted to the bars of the Supreme Courts for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State of Indiana, to the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the United States Courts of Appeal for the 6th and 7th Circuits.

Mr. Bubalo was born in Evansville, Indiana, and he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Illinois College. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Indiana University School of Law, where he served as an Associate Editor and then Note and Development Editor for the Indiana Law Review. Following law school, Mr. Bubalo practiced as an associate with Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald . He then joined the firm of Ogden, Newell & Welch (presently Stoll Keenan Ogden, PLC) where he became a partner and practiced law until July 1995 defending physicians in medical malpractice actions and appearing in complex commercial cases.

In July, 1995, Mr. Bubalo became "Of Counsel" at Ogden, while primarily serving as Vice President and General Counsel for Paradigm Insurance Company as well as President of its subsidiary, Universal Fire and Casualty Company. Working for these companies, he supervised a network of lawyers in over thirty (30) states involving both personal injury and corporate cases.

In June, 1999, Mr. Bubalo was invited by Gary Becker to become Assistant Managing Partner for the Becker Law Office. There, he helped manage the firm but primarily served as the Lead Trial Attorney, now representing injured people and small businesses, and routinely opposing large companies, especially insurance companies.

After Mr. Becker's retirement in 2004, Mr. Bubalo established his current firm, Bubalo Goode Sales & Bliss, to continue his personal injury and general trial practice. Mr. Bubalo serves as the Managing Partner. Attorneys in the firm are admitted to practice in Kentucky, Massachusetts, Indiana and Tennessee, and also practice cases in many other states and courts across the country.

Following are a few examples of cases that Mr. Bubalo has handled:

In Loomis v. St. Mary's Hospital, he was Lead Trial Attorney, resulting in one of the largest personal injury verdictsrecorded in the State of Indiana. Mr. Bubalo sought compensation for a neurosurgeon who was injured, resulting in Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy ("RSD"), also generally known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ("CRPS"). The Judgment for almost $17,000,000 was unanimously affirmed by the Indiana Court of Appeals in St. Mary's Medical Center of Evansville, Inc. v. Loomis, 783 N.E.2d 274 (Ind. App. 2003). View full opinion of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Since 1999, Mr. Bubalo frequently has represented people injured by defective drugs. Some recent cases include his appearance in October, 2008 as co-counsel in Stribling v. Wyeth, Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County, Docket No.: BER-L-2352-07 MT. Mr. Bubalo presented technical pharmacological evidence to the jury, which awarded Mrs. Stribling $3,000,000 for pain and suffering damages. The jury found that the defendant Wyeth, "intentionally concealed from the FDA knowledge of the harmful effects," of its drugs. View Stribling verdict. Similarly, in early 2009, Mr. Bubalo was trial counsel in Kohler v. Wyeth, Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, Central Civil West, Diet Drug Case No. DD 004290. The trial sought damages for a young lawyer who had taken Wyeth's defective drugs, causing her to suffer from the progressive and eventually fatal disease, Primary Pulmonary Hypertension ("PPH"). The trial was broadcast streaming live on the web via www.courtroomview.com, between 3/4/09 to 4/22/09. A mutual resolution of the case was reached by the parties and recorded under seal by Judge Mohr shortly after the start of Defendant Wyeth's proof.

Most recently, Mr. Bubalo obtained a $4,000,000 compensatory judgment in Margaret Fraser, et al. v. Wyeth, Civil Action No. 3:04CV1373 (JBA).  (Link to original news release.)  The verdict was in relation to the Hormone Therapy ("HT") litigation, alleging that Wyeth drug, Prempro, caused breast cancer in his client, without adequate warning.  "Ex-Principal Wins $4 Million Verdict Against Drug Maker," by Christian Nolan, published online by Connecticut Law Tribune, Monday, April 30, 2012.

The jury in Fraser found that Wyeth had "misrepresented the risks and benefits of Prempro," to Mrs. Fraser's physician and awarded punitive damages as well.

Mr. Bubalo has appeared as a speaker in numerous seminars and professional settings.  Most recently, he appeared before the Kentucky Bar Association (KBA) regarding settlements in Mass Torts, presenting recommendations from the Kentucky Supreme Court Mass Tort and Class Action Litigation Committee.  Mr. Bubalo has appeared and resolved various matters involving aggregate settlements and mass torts.

 Mr. Bubalo's clients are his ultimate concern. View client thank you letter.

He and his wife have one child and are members of Christ Church United Methodist in Louisville, Kentucky.

*Kentucky law does not certify specialties in legal fields.

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"It is truly an honor to represent people who, through no fault of their own, are often at one of the most vulnerable points in their lives, financially and emotionally. This is why I am proud to say I am a trial lawyer."

Christopher W. Goode, Partner, is based in the Lexington office and splitting his time between the Lexington and Louisville offices. He practices in the areas of personal injury, products liability, and medical malpractice litigation. Mr. Goode is qualified by his peers as AV, the highest possible rating by the legal publisher Martindale-Hubbell, and has been named a 2012 Super Lawyer. He earned his undergraduate degree from Northern Illinois University and his J.D. degree from DePaul University.

Mr. Goode is admitted to practice in Kentucky and before the U.S. District Courts of Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, the Southern District of Indiana and the Northern District of Illinois; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Kentucky, Louisville and Fayette County Bar Associations, American Association for Justice (AAJ), Kentucky Justice Association. Mr. Goode is also a member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Mr. Goode is the immediate past president of the Fayette County Bar Association. He also served as Chair of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Ethics Commission. He is a Founding Fellow of the Fayette County Bar Foundation and a past President of the Young Lawyers Section of the Fayette County Bar Association. In 2005, Mr. Goode received the Fayette County Outstanding Young Lawyer award. (FCBA President's Message: July/Aug 2011; Sep/Oct 2011)

Read Goode's Bar News Column

Along with his wife, Mr. Goode is very active in community outreach and service projects. He also plays trumpet with various music groups in Lexington and the surrounding communities.

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"I am proud to carry on the tradition in my family of giving the working man a fair chance for equal representation before the law."

Kenneth L. Sales, Of Counsel, is a third generation attorney who works out of the Louisville office. He is widely recognized as one of the nation's premier mesothelioma and products liability lawyers.  Mr. Sales has more than 35 years of experience serving clients in Kentucky and throughout the United States.  He is qualified by his peers as AV Preeminent, the highest possible rating by the legal publisher Martindale-Hubbell.  He received the Peter Perlman Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award in 2006 from the Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys (now known as Kentucky Justice Association).  He is also rated as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the nation by the American Trial Lawyers Association.

He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and his J.D. degree from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.  He is admitted to practice in Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, before the U.S. District Court for the District of Kentucky (West and East), before the U.S. Court of Appeals, 6^th Circuit and Federal Circuit, the U.S. Federal Courts, the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Sales is recognized both in Kentucky and nationally for his trial skills. He is a member of the American Association for Justice and on the Board of Governors for the Kentucky Justice Association. Mr. Sales is also on the Board for the Louisville Orchestra.

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Paula S. Bliss, Partner, is based in the Boston office. She focuses her practice on all aspects of civil litigation involving catastrophic injuries, primarily pharmaceutical and medical device mass tort litigation, wrongful death, medical malpractice and personal injury actions. Ms. Bliss was selected as a Massachusetts Super Lawyers "Rising Star" four years in a row.

Ms. Bliss has tried cases in both Federal and State courts.  She was also part of a four-attorney team that obtained a jury verdict in the District of Connecticut in a breast cancer hormone replacement therapy case, Fraser v. Wyeth (Dist. Conn. 2012) in which the jury awarded the Plaintiffs $4 million plus punitive damages.

Prior to joining Bubalo Goode Sales & Bliss in 2007, Ms. Bliss practiced in a large New England firm where she litigated cases involving catastrophically injured plaintiffs across the country in various pharmaceutical mass tort litigations, These included diet drugs, phenylpropanolamine, ephedra, Duragesic pain patches, and individual personal injury and medical malpractice lawsuits. Ms. Bliss has extensive experience in every facet of complex tort litigation from fact and expert witness discovery to Daubert litigation and preparation for and participation in trials. She manages litigation projects involving dozens of individual complex tort cases.

Drawing from her experience in sophisticated expert witness discovery and Daubert challenges, Ms. Bliss authored the publication "What to Expect in High Stakes Litigation" (SEAK, 2005), which has been read by and presented to hundreds of scientific and medical testifying experts. Ms. Bliss appears in court on civil litigation matters, summary judgment and Daubert hearings, pre-trial conferences, medical malpractice tribunals and discovery and evidentiary motion argument. Ms. Bliss has successfully negotiated significant pre-suit personal injury settlements and mediated several pharmaceutical liability tort actions.

A member of the Bar of Massachusetts since 2002, Ms. Bliss is also a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA), the Women's Bar Association (WBA) and has been a pro bono attorney with the Women's Bar Foundation representing victims of domestic violence in probate matters. She was a presenter in a WBA/MATA event on June 26, 2012 entitled "Trials Facing Women Litigators & Tips for Success."

Ms. Bliss received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Ms. Bliss currently lives just outside Boston, MA with her husband and two children.

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Leslie Cronen is an associate in the Louisville office. She joined the firm in July of 2006 and concentrates her practice in the areas of wrongful death, medical malpractice, pharmaceutical liability and mass tort litigation on behalf of injured individuals. She was recently named one of the "Top 40 Under 40" by The National Trial Lawyers. Leslie is experienced in all aspects of civil litigation, including pre-suit activities, pre-trial discovery, trials and appeals. Prior to joining Bubalo Goode Sales & Bliss, Ms. Cronen practiced with two premier insurance defense firms, primarily representing physicians and hospitals in medical malpractice cases across Kentucky.

Leslie received her J.D., with honors, from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. There she was involved in the Law Review, Moot Court and honor council. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Louisville. She is admitted to practice in Kentucky and Indiana, and to practice before the U.S. District Courts of Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky and of the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.  Leslie is a member of the American Bar Association, Kentucky Bar Association, Indiana State Bar Association, Louisville Bar Association, Kentucky Justice Association, Indiana Trial Lawyers Association and American Association for Justice (AAJ). She is a Leadership Academy Fellow and completed a two year term as an Associate Member of the Brandeis Inn of Court.

Ms. Cronen was once featured on a television news report because she was having her hair cut off for cancer patients. It was a St. Baldrick event, which involves people volunteering to have their heads shaved or hair cut to honor cancer survivors who lose their hair during chemotherapy. It also provides real hair to make wigs for cancer patients. The organization that collects the hair and provides wigs is called Locks of Love. Ms. Cronen and her husband have two young children and are very active in school, church and community activities.

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Michael Cannon is an associate working in both the Lexington and Louisville offices. He earned both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the University of Louisville. He is admitted to practice law in Kentucky and will be eligible to sit for the Indiana bar in the near future.

Mr. Cannon has experience in a broad range of injury cases, having worked in a personal injury law firm as a full time law clerk throughout the years he completed law school at night.  He comes naturally to his interest in law, as his father is a lawyer from Grayson County, Kentucky, who also represents clients with injury and disability issues.

Besides his commitment to law and helping people who have been injured, Mr. Cannon also devotes time to learning other languages. He earned an undergraduate degree in Spanish before going on to law school. And, since his wife is from Germany, he quickly picked up German as well. Having an affinity for languages, Mr. Cannon now speaks, writes or reads at least six languages.  No matter the language, he is able to work side by side with people who have been injured through no fault of their own.

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