M. Elizabeth (“Beth”) Graham is a principal at Grant & Eisenhofer. She leads the firm’s complex and mass tort litigation practice and serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Her expertise spans mass tort, consumer fraud, product liability, environmental, business torts, and sexual assault and retaliation claims. Ms. Graham is representing thousands of injured victims in various cases against corporations, including pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, public utility and tech companies. She is Liaison Counsel, a member of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Law & Briefing Committee, and was a lead negotiator in the In re Essure Product Cases (JCCP 4887) settlement, which provided $1.6 billion in overall compensation to injured women. She was also Co-Lead class counsel in the In re Columbia Gas Explosion Cases where she was a principal negotiator of the recent $143 million class action settlement.Ms. Graham was appointed co-lead interim class counsel in the In re East Palestine Train Derailment cases, and currently serves in leadership as Liaison Counsel in California’s Gilead Tenofovir Cases and Coordinated Actions, JCCP No. 5043. She is a PSC member in In re Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2775), where she was also appointed to the Settlement Committee. She served as Co-Lead on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee and as Chair of the Law & Briefing Committee in In re Zofran (Ondansetron) Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2657). She previously has served on the PSC in In re Power Morcellator Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2652); as a member of the PSC in In re Stryker LFIT V40 Femoral Head Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2768); and as co-chair of the Law & Briefing Committee for In re Xarelto Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2592). Ms. Graham also represents survivors of sexual assault and families injured by environmental contaminants.

Founding partner at a boutique plaintiffs' firm, dedicated to the representation of individuals and small businesses involved in complex, coordinated or MDL litigation. Since 1996, Rapazzini & Graham successfully prosecuted cases involving medical device failures, environmental contamination, defective products and commercial fraud. The firm appeared as lead class counsel in MDL litigation, counsel for the Plaintiffs' Committee in California Coordinated Proceedings, and class counsel for plaintiffs in various consumer and labor cases. Rapazzini & Graham was responsible for the 1998 settlement of a RICO class action, brought on behalf of individual automotive dealerships, which settlement resolved what was, at the time, the largest commercial fraud class action case in the United States.

Ms. Graham was one of the founding partners of the Duane Morris San Francisco office, in 1998. She focused her practice there on complex and class action litigation, with an emphasis on product liability, toxic torts and business disputes. Ms. Graham also was part of the initial group of partners responsible for the strategic growth and management of the office.

Alexander, Rapazzini & Graham was a preeminent Silicon Valley trial firm focused on the protection of the legal rights of individuals who had suffered personal injury or a violation of their consumer or employment rights. Ms. Graham focused her practice on commercial, environmental and product liability litigation, class actions and trials.

Ms. Graham began her legal career in the Product Liability Group of one of the largest and best SF law firms. Her practice involved product liability, pharmaceutical, medical device and toxic tort litigation. Ms. Graham appeared in courts across the country in complex matters in state and federal court, and she participated in both the litigation and negotiation of landmark class action lawsuits involving defective products .