Wisner Baum Media Contact
Director of Public Relations Wisner Baum
RMcCall@WisnerBaum.com
Since 1990, Robin McCall has handled the media, marketing, advertising, and public relations for Wisner Baum (formerly Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman). In mid-2020, she turned her focus to only handling the firm's PR. She has worked with more than 9,000 reporters, journalists, editors, authors, producers, and documentarians around the world concerning the firm’s cutting edge litigation. The firm or its lawyers have been mentioned in the mainstream media over 10,000 times and have appeared in more than 40 books and documentaries.
In line with Wisner Baum’s advocacy work, Robin has organized safety campaigns and community events concerning harmful consumer products and commercial transportation disasters, and has worked with legislators and lobbied with clients at state and federal levels for the purpose of improving consumer safety.
Robin is very proud of Wisner Baum’s work to champion their client’s causes. For decades, she has witnessed the firm’s high stakes litigation and helped to expose massive corporate fraud and corruption in the aviation, pharmaceutical, medical device, and agro-chemical industries. She takes pride in the firm’s success in scouring through millions of defendant confidential documents obtained in litigation, and publishing the most important ones after getting them out from under seal, so everyone can benefit from knowing the truth.
She is particularly fond of the firm’s landmark success with the first three Monsanto Roundup weedkiller cancer trials because her relative, Teri McCall of Cambria, California, was the firm’s first Monsanto Roundup client. Teri lost her beloved husband, Jack McCall, to non-Hodgkin lymphoma after 30 years of Roundup use on the McCall Farm. The McCall case was the impetus for the firm getting involved in the Monsanto Roundup litigation.
The first and third Roundup trials, which Wisner Baum senior shareholder, R. Brent Wisner, co-led, resulted in a groundbreaking $289M verdict against Monsanto on behalf of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson and the third trial resulted in a $2B verdict against Monsanto on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Pilliod. These verdicts and the release of the Monsanto Papers have captured worldwide attention and have been the subject of dozens of investigative journalist articles and documentaries worldwide.
The Monsanto jury awards have also resulted in our firm receiving numerous accolades and honors, including Law360’s California Powerhouse award and induction into the Verdicts Hall of Fame. Because of his brilliant trial work in obtaining the historic verdicts in the Johnson and Pilliod trials, including delivering the opening statements and closing arguments, Brent Wisner is one of the most acclaimed trial lawyers in the country.
Because of Wisner Baum’s knowledge of Monsanto’s internal documents and their scientific understanding of Roundup’s mechanism of inducing cancer, Michael Baum and Brent Wisner were invited to brief the press and Members of Parliament in the European Union ahead of a meeting to discuss the license renewal of glyphosate, the key ingredient of Roundup. Advocacy groups also invited them to Canada to discuss the country’s regulatory stance on glyphosate and meet with Members of Parliament, lawyer groups and the media. Michael and Brent, along with trial team member Pedram Esfandiary, also spoke at various universities and non-profit consumer advocacy organizations across the country.
The Monsanto Papers, magnified by the verdicts in the first three Monsanto trials, have changed the approval of Roundup use in Europe and led to legislative investigations worldwide and numerous cities, counties, states, and countries throughout the world have taken steps to either restrict or ban glyphosate.
To request an interview or speaking engagement with an attorney, please call (855) 948-5098 or email Robin McCall at RMcCall@WisnerBaum.com.
MEET OUR TEAM
A TRADITION OF SUCCESS
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R. Brent Wisner Attorney, Managing PartnerRead BioR. Brent Wisner is the managing partner of Wisner Baum and is based at our San Francisco Bay Area office. Brent is driven by a deep-rooted passion for using the law to help those who have been marginalized and hurt by large, and sometimes malicious, corporations.
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Michael Baum Attorney, Senior PartnerRead Bio
Michael L. Baum is a senior partner of Wisner Baum (formerly Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman) with nearly 40 years of experience. He was the managing partner of Baum Hedlund from 1993 to 2022 and proudly turned over the reins to R. Brent Wisner in January of 2023.
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Bijan Esfandiari Attorney, Senior PartnerRead Bio
Bijan Esfandiari is a pharmaceutical product liability litigation attorney and senior partner at Wisner Baum in Los Angeles. Since joining the firm in 2007, Bijan has worked as lead counsel on several cutting-edge pharmaceutical and medical device cases.
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Timothy Loranger Attorney, Senior Partner, Pilot, Marine Corps VeteranRead Bio
Timothy A. Loranger is an attorney and senior partner at the national mass disaster law firm of Wisner Baum. A consumer attorney, pilot, and avid citizen advocate.
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Monique Alarcon Attorney, Senior AssociateRead Bio
Monique Alarcon is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum where she focuses her practice on the firm’s medical device cases, pharmaceutical drug liability and consumer fraud litigation.
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W. Crawford Appleby IV Attorney, Senior AssociateRead Bio
William Crawford Appleby IV is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum. He focuses on complex law and motion matters, in-depth legal research and writing, and case strategy.
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Pedram Esfandiary Attorney, PartnerRead Bio
Pedram Esfandiary is a partner and trial attorney based in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum, where he concentrates his practice on toxic tort injuries, pharmaceutical drug liability, class actions, consumer fraud litigation and police misconduct lawsuits.
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Adam Foster Associate, AttorneyRead Bio
Adam M. Foster is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum. Adam concentrates his practice on class actions and mass torts particularly those related to pharmaceuticals, consumer products, and products liability, generally.
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Matthew French Associate, AttorneyRead Bio
Matthew P. French is an attorney at Wisner Baum’s Los Angeles office, where he focuses his practice on the firm’s commercial transportation accident cases. Led by a strong desire to help people when they need it most, Matthew’s clients appreciate his empathetic approach to how he handles his cases.
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Ari Friedman Attorney, PartnerRead Bio
Ari Friedman is a partner and trial attorney at Wisner Baum where he focuses his practice on complex and multi-district litigation, product liability, and personal injury and wrongful death cases stemming from transportation accidents (including aviation accidents and truck crashes) and other catastrophic injury (including TBI).
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Harrison James Associate, AttorneyRead Bio
Harrison E. James is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum, where he focuses his practice on the firm’s pharmaceutical drug liability, class action, and consumer fraud litigation.
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Mayra Maturana Associate, AttorneyRead Bio
Mayra Maturana is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum where she concentrates her practice on toxic tort injuries. She is part of firm’s legal team handling the toxic baby food litigation.
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Clay Robbins III Attorney, PartnerRead Bio
Clay Robbins III is an attorney and partner in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum. A third-generation California lawyer, Clay concentrates his practice on commercial transportation accident litigation and mass disasters.
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Stephanie Sherman Attorney, PartnerRead Bio
Stephanie B. Sherman is a multiple award-winning trial lawyer and partner at Wisner Baum. With over 20 years of experience, she has helped thousands of clients in serious personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, chemical exposure, and dangerous pharmaceutical cases.
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Helen Tokar Attorney, Senior AssociateRead Bio
Helen E. Tokar is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum where she focuses her practice on the firm’s Zantac cancer litigation.
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Cara Luther Attorney of CounselRead Bio
Cara J. Luther is of counsel to Wisner Baum, focusing on the firm’s mass disaster cases and commercial transportation accident cases. She worked for 31 years as a full-time attorney at the firm until 2022.
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Frances Phares Attorney of CounselRead Bio
Frances M. Phares is of counsel to Wisner Baum, where she focuses her practice on personal injury and wrongful death litigation stemming from major transportation disasters, pharmaceutical product liability cases and toxic exposure across the nation.
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Mark Schlein Attorney of CounselRead Bio
Mark H. Schlein transitioned to ”of counsel” status to Wisner Baum in 2022 and continues to focus on the firm’s whistleblower qui tam cases. For 11 years he worked full time as the firm’s top whistleblower attorney, handling dozens of whistleblower cases.
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Ronald L. Goldman Pilot, Attorney of Counsel, RetiredRead Bio
Ronald L. M. Goldman retired after 60 years in the practice of law on January 10, 2023. He held the positions of vice president and senior trial attorney at Baum Hedlund & Aristei & Goldman (now Wisner Baum) and was a pillar of Baum Hedlund for 19 years.
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Paul Hedlund Senior Shareholder, Mechanical Engineer, RetiredRead Bio
Paul J. Hedlund was an attorney for 45 years and a member of our team at Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman for 30 of those years. He served as one of the firm’s senior shareholders for more than 20 years, overseeing the firm’s major transportation accident cases.
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J. Clark Aristei Senior Shareholder, DeceasedRead Bio
J. Clark Aristei was an attorney for nearly 40 years and a member of our team at Wisner Baum for 26 of those years. Clark served as a senior shareholder for more than two decades and then semi-retired while also acting as Of Counsel to our firm.
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