Stanley M. Rosenblatt, along with his wife and law partner Susan, tried the very first plaintiff’s case against the tobacco industry. Stanley made it clear in interviews after that historic trial that he was ready for the industry to lie to his face so that he could knock them back down with the facts. It was that spirit and passion that gave us one of the greatest David vs Goliath legal stories of a generation.

Stanley and Susan’s fight against the tobacco industry began in 1991, when they first filed a case against the industry on behalf of nearly 60,000 non-smoking flight attendants who had developed cancers after years of exposure to cigarette smoke. That suit then paved the way for the major lawsuit on behalf of roughly half a million smokers in the state of Florida who claimed that the tobacco industry misled the public about the risks of smoking for decades. That case resulted, at the time, in the single largest punitive damages award in history.