Seth Katz
Shareholder | Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C.
Seth Katz is a mass torts, pharmaceutical litigation and medical device litigation trial lawyer and shareholder at Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C. in Englewood, Colorado. J.D., Boston University School of Law (1993).
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Englewood, Colorado 80112
Seth A. Katz is a shareholder at Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine in Englewood, Colorado, and heads the firm’s mass tort and class action practice group. He represents people harmed by dangerous drugs, defective medical devices, toxic releases and corporate negligence, and he has held court-appointed leadership roles in many national multidistrict litigations.
Katz was co-lead counsel in the Pradaxa MDL, where he helped negotiate a $650 million settlement program, and he is court-appointed co-lead and class counsel in the litigation over the 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. He has served on plaintiffs’ executive or steering committees in the testosterone replacement therapy, proton pump inhibitor and DePuy ASR hip MDLs, and he leads a group of firms representing Gold Star families in terrorism claims against Iran.
Before joining Burg Simpson in 2005, he was a partner at Seeger Weiss in New York, an associate at Loeb & Loeb and an assistant district attorney in the Bronx. He earned his law degree cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1993 and his bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Michigan. He was the first president of the Mass Tort Trial Lawyers Association.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- New York, 1994
- Colorado, 2006
- Wyoming, 2006
- Arizona, 2014
- Supreme Court of the United States, 2006
- J.D., cum laude, Boston University School of Law, 1993
- B.A., with distinction, University of Michigan, 1990
Practice Areas
- The National Trial Lawyers
- Mass Tort Trial Lawyers Association (President, through January 2013)
- American Association for Justice
- Colorado Bar Association
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
- Arapahoe County Bar Association
- Leading Lawyer, The U.S. Legal 500, Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices - Plaintiff, 2019
- Barrister's Best People's Choice, Best Class Action/Mass Tort Plaintiff Lawyer, Law Week Colorado, 2013, 2016
- Colorado Super Lawyers, 2012-2025
- Best Lawyers in America, 2016-2024, 2026
- Top 100 Attorney, Civil Plaintiff, The National Trial Lawyers
- AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell
- $650 Million Settlement Program: As court-appointed co-lead counsel in the Pradaxa MDL, he was one of the primary negotiators of a settlement covering about 4,000 claimants (2014).
- $143 Million Class Settlement: Part of the small team that negotiated a class settlement in the Columbia Gas explosion cases in Massachusetts after the September 2018 explosions.
- $700 Million Settlement: One of the primary attorneys prosecuting the Zyprexa MDL, where he chaired the Law and Briefing Committee.
- $1.8 Billion in Judgments: Leads a six-firm team representing Gold Star families that, through August 2025, obtained judgments against Iran and its co-conspirators under the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
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