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a Superfund case that resulted in a settlement providing medical monitoring for thousands of
residents who lived on or played near a landfill. He has litigated both individual and class childhood
lead poisoning cases and he is presently lead counsel in a case against the lead pigment industry, City
of Milwaukee v. NL Industries Inc. Mr. Lewis is also handling mass tort cases involving Vioxx, and
environmental cases in India, South Africa, and Barbados. Mr. Lewis graduated from Tufts
University with a BA in English (cum laude, 1976), and earned his Master’s in Public Health degree
from the University of Michigan (1981) and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania (JD
cum laude 1986). He was Comments Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1985-86) and
authored the Comment, O.C.A.W. v. American Cyanamid: The Shrinking of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act, U. Pa. L. Rev.(July, 1985). After law school, he was a law clerk for the Hon.
Stanley S. Brotman, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Mr. Lewis is admitted to
practice in the District of Columbia.
Barbara Ann Manis, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer at Building Health Sciences, Inc. Since
1980, Dr. Manis has overseen the review and analysis of hundreds of indoor environmental matters
to determine the relationship of the environment to health complaints or diagnoses. Board certified
in Quality Assurance and Utilization Review, she has written a book dealing with fetal pharmacology
and toxicology and articles in the legal literature and in the scientific literature, including indoor air
quality. She has overseen and directed projects in large scale workers’ compensation programs,
regulatory consulting, risk communication and product risk assessment. Dr. Manis was the Acting
Medical Director for the city of Philadelphia, involved with its workers’ compensation claims,
return-to-work, and medical pension fund. For the past 20 years, Dr. Manis has specialized in
environmental medicine dealing with commercial and residential IEAQ and exposure issues, in
building and health hazard evaluation for residents, occupants and workers. She has spoken at
national meetings and symposia on issues related to indoor air, toxic exposures and adverse health
effects. Dr. Manis received her BA and MA degrees from Temple University. Following several
years of teaching, she entered the University of Southern California School of Medicine where she
received her MD degree. She interned in internal medicine and completed a residency in
ophthalmology, both at the George Washington University Medical Center
Lorelie Masters is a partner in Jenner & Block’s Insurance Litigation and Counseling Practice
Group and has more than 25 years of experience representing policyholders in insurance coverage
counseling and litigation. She is co-author of two treatises on insurance coverage issues: (i) Insurance
Coverage Litigation, published in its second edition in January 2000, and updated yearly; and (ii)
Liability Insurance International Arbitration, published in Spring 2004. Ms. Masters is a past
Policyholder Chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation of
the American Bar Association, and continues to serve in the Section of Litigation’s Leadership, and
served as President of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia from 2007-2008.
Ms. Masters served as trial counsel for policyholder Hoechst Celanese Corporation in its trial
enforcing general liability insurance coverage. The National Law Journal called the jury’s verdict for
Hoechst Celanese one of the “most significant jury verdicts of 1997.” She has lectured and written
extensively on products liability, directors’ and officers’, property and business interruption
insurance, and technology and e-commerce issues. She has also handled many other matters in
litigation, arbitration and settlement negotiations, recovering millions of dollars for her clients.