Kathryn A Feagans is a founding partner of Feagans Law Group and oversees the firm’s personal injury practice. She concentrates in cases involving complex and catastrophic injuries, including wrongful death, in the areas of automobile/trucking accidents, slip and falls, construction injuries, medical malpractice and nursing home negligence, dog bites and defective products. As an injury attorney, Katie has guided thousand of clients through what is often the scariest and most uncertain time in their lives. With a comprehensive understanding of insurance, healthcare, business and the law throughout Chicagoland, Illinois, and the Midwest, her “concierge” approach to representing her clients ensures that they have the necessary resources at every stage of the process. As a former adjuster and attorney for insurance companies, Katie has a first-hand understanding of properly managing cases from the beginning - to ensure the most beneficial outcomes. Katie is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Kane County Bar Association and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Katie serves on the Women’s Board of the Chicago Zoological Society (Brookfield Zoo), as a Director of the Kane County Bar Association Board of Managers, as a Director on Radical Love's Board of Directors, as a Director of CASA Kane County, and is active with Grace McWayne Elementary School PTO. Katie has been recognized as one of the Ten Best Attorneys for Client Satisfaction by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys. Katie was raised in San Antonio, Texas and Naperville, Illinois, but her family hails from Lake County, Illinois. She graduated high school from Benet Academy in Lisle, received B.A.’s in Psychology and Business from the University of Michigan, studied at the London School of Economics and received her law degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School. When Katie is not Guiding Your Path to Justice, she enjoys spending time with her family, watching cooking shows, reading, traveling and the occasional glass of wine!

A celebrated trial attorney and legal expert known as the female litigator “who stared down Bill Cosby” (The New York Times), Kristen Gibbons Feden joined Anapol Weiss as a shareholder in March 2024. In addition to being internationally recognized as a leading fierce and relentless litigator in the #MeToo Movement and her world-renowned closing argument in the Bill Cosby trial, Feden is known for the two eight-figure verdicts she won in a single day in 2023 – a $10.5M verdict for survivors of singer and entertainer R. Kelly and a $22M verdict for a sexual abuse survivor of a renowned pediatrician in New York. In early 2024, she won additional significant victories for other sexual abuse survivors of the same pediatrician, with 75 verdicts totaling over $1.3 billion.

John Feder is a personal injury lawyer in San Francisco and a partner at Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn. Since 1978, Mr. Feder has been practicing in the legal field. Currently, he serves as president of the Consumer Attorneys of California, and he also serves on the organization’s Executive Board and Board of Governors. For the past ten years, Attorney Feder has been selected for inclusion in the list of California Super Lawyers®. For your free case evaluation, please contact his firm today.

Phil Federico is a partner at Baird Mandalas Brockstedt & Federico where he helps lead the Mass Tort / Class Action and Environmental Law practices, transitioning into these areas after beginning his career as a medical malpractice litigator. Phil has led and been involved in historic and groundbreaking litigation with verdicts and settlements exceeding one billion dollars. In recent years, Phil and his team have focused on environmental cases involving contaminated groundwater and air pollution. In 2017, Phil became co-lead counsel in a landmark environmental case against chicken processing giant Mountaire. For close to two decades, the company had violated its permits by disposing of wastewater containing excessive nitrates, causing health problems and property damage for the community of Millsboro, Delaware. Phil led the negotiation with Mountaire and achieved a settlement valued at $205 million. Following that landmark case, Phil has continued his work representing communities that have been harmed by polluters. He is co-lead counsel representing a putative class of hundreds of thousands of residents in North Carolina and South Carolina who are being negatively affected by harmful air and water emissions released by New-Indy Catawba paper mill.??Alongside his team, he is representing hundreds of veterans who lived and served at Camp Lejeune, the United States Marine Corps Base Camp in Jacksonville, North Carolina that is now known to be the site of an environmental and public health disaster. The community of Elkton, Maryland is also benefiting from his legal acumen as he leads the litigation against W.L Gore and Associates’ Cherry Hill plant for contaminating the water supply with dangerous perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Finally, Phil’s team is involved in litigation involving Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), a foam used for firefighting that contains PFAS and has been linked to cancer. In addition to environmental cases, Phil also has deep experience representing governmental entities in litigation. In 2017, Phil formed a consortium of attorneys and law firms to take on the opioid industry and today represents more than 40 cities and counties. This includes more Florida public entities than any other group, and the second largest number of South Carolina public entities. He is also leading a consortium of attorneys and law firms in the JUUL litigation, which is based on JUUL’s intentional and deceptive marketing of its vaping device to teenagers and young adults. Phil represents 60 school boards from across the country in their fight for justice. Most recently, Phil is representing school boards in their litigation against social media platforms for their role in the youth mental health crisis. Finally, Phil has extensive experience in personal injury, sexual abuse and misconduct, and healthcare. Phil is currently serving as a member of the Survivors Advisory Board dedicated to helping survivors of institutional sexual abuse find justice and healing. In 2010, he served as co-lead counsel in the litigation against pedophile pediatrician Earl Bradley, which resulted in a $123 million settlement. In 2016, he served as counsel in a $190 million class action settlement with The Johns Hopkins Hospital arising out of the conduct of Nikita Levy, M.D., an obstetrician gynecologist who surreptitiously videotaped his patients during gynecologic examinations. He is also representing plaintiffs in the StarPower lawsuit that involves the alleged surreptitious photographing and recording of a group of 400 competitive dancers, mostly minors, in various stages of undress in their changing area. Additionally, he is leading a class action involving 3,700 patients who were allegedly wrongfully exposed to HIV and hepatitis at a surgical center in New Jersey as a result of the doctors and staff failing to follow appropriate sterilization protocols and infection protection guidelines.

For over twenty-six years, Phyllis has specialized in the trial of complex domestic relations and family law matters and has worked with a number of prestigious firms specializing in this area of the law. In 1994, she was one of the founding partners of Schmidt & Federico, P.C Phyllis’ practice encompasses all aspects of matrimonial and domestic relations law, including divorce, custody, modifications, prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, and paternity. She handles high-conflict disputes with an emphasis on business valuation and custody litigation. She has chaired and been a panel member of many continuing education programs for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, (“MCLE”), the Boston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Association of Guardians ad Litem, (“MAGAL”), the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, (“AFCC”) and has been a guest lecturer at Boston College Law School and Suffolk University Law School. Phyllis has authored many articles on family law practice. She is the co-editor of the MCLE publication “Massachusetts Divorce Law Practice Manual” and has co-authored the Separation Agreement Chapter for that publication for many years. She is the Co-Author of the Massachusetts Family Law Source Book and Citator. She is listed in Naifeh & Smith’s “Best Lawyers in America,” has been listed as one of Boston Magazine’s top fifty female attorneys and has been included as a Super Lawyer in Boston Magazine in the category of family law since 2004 as well as “New England Super Lawyers.”