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Attorney Nicholas Vogelzang has been working for mesothelioma victims for over ten years. His interest in that area of law was sparked by his father, Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang, who has also dedicated his career to the treatment of mesothelioma patients. Shortly thereafter he began his career fighting for victims of asbestos-induced disease. After only two years of being a licensed attorney, he helped his client Roby Whittington; obtain a 250 million dollar verdict against U.S. Steel. Mr. Whittington was diagnosed with mesothelioma after working in a steel mill his whole life. At trial it was proven to the jury that U.S. Steel failed to warn Mr. Whittington of the dangers of the asbestos that floated in the air of his workplace. Since that time, Mr. Vogelzang has dedicated his career to defending the rights of mesothelioma victims. He has worked with well over 100 mesothelioma clients and tried cases across the country, including St. Louis, Fort Worth and Chicago. In addition to the Whittington verdict, he has obtained in excess of 250 million dollars in settlements for his clients. Mr. Vogelzang previously worked with partner William Connelly at Motley Rice and Richardson Patrick in South Carolina before starting Connelly & Vogelzang, LLC.
Attorney William Connelly has been a devoted trial lawyer for 29 years. He is licensed to practice law in the states of Arizona, Illinois, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin and has been admitted pro hac vice in the other 50 states to assist in trials in state and federal courts. Mr. Connelly has primarily focused on jury trials involving asbestos litigation and mesothelioma victims over the past 15 years. He has represented mesothelioma victims against the largest corporations and defense law firms in the nation. Mr. Connelly has multiple jury verdicts in excess of 100 million dollars. Additionally, he has been involved in asbestos-related settlements in excess of 500 million dollars. He was a litigation partner at the law firm of Ness Motley and was a founding litigation partner of the law firm of Richardson Patrick. At both firms he was involved in several types of civil litigation cases including mesothelioma, tobacco, lead, phen-fen and numerous other toxic torts with multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements. Prior to his work in asbestos litigation, Mr. Connelly prosecuted criminal cases for 10 years at the Cook County Court House where he tried over 50 murder jury trials and well over 50 jury trials involving other serious class-x felonies. William has teamed up with Nicholas Vogelzang to form a boutique firm dedicated solely to mesothelioma victims.