Donald Migliori

Donald A. Migliori is a member of Motley Rice LLC, based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. He represents people harmed by defective medical devices and drugs, occupational disease, terrorism and aviation disasters, as well as victims of antitrust violations and securities and consumer fraud, in mass tort and complex litigation across the country.

Migliori began working with Motley Rice lawyers in 1997 on the state attorneys general litigation against the tobacco industry. He has tried asbestos cases for mesothelioma victims, including Indiana’s first contractor liability and first premises liability verdicts for asbestos exposure. He served as liaison counsel for wrongful death and injury claims in the September 11 aviation security litigation and is a lead attorney in the MDL against financiers of the 2001 attacks. In medical device litigation he is co-lead counsel in the Ethicon Physiomesh hernia mesh MDL, sits on the plaintiffs’ steering committee in the Bard IVC filter MDL and has held lead and liaison roles in the Kugel hernia patch litigation. He is also part of the firm’s team representing local governments in the national prescription opiate MDL.

A former president of the Rhode Island Association for Justice, he serves on the American Association for Justice Board of Governors. He holds a J.D. and M.A. from Syracuse University and an A.B. from Brown University, taught mass torts as an adjunct professor and was Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Roger Williams University School of Law in 2010-2011. Chambers USA ranks him nationally for plaintiffs’ product liability work.