The firm’s recent verdict against John Crane Inc. garnered media reports including in the Portland Business Journal. The $34.2 million jury verdict was won on behalf of former Swan Island shipyard worker Richard Long, who developed mesothelioma after years of asbestos exposure.

The article details how a Multnomah County jury found John Crane Inc. responsible for selling asbestos-containing products that contributed to Mr. Long’s incurable cancer.

“I tell people what I do, and they say, ‘I thought that was all in the past,’ but it’s not,” DOBS attorney Mark Linder told the Portland Business Journal, speaking about the firm’s clients who continue to be diagnosed with mesothelioma. “People are still getting diagnosed with this.”

CBS News Radio in Portland also covered the verdict and spoke with DOBS attorney Lenny Sandoval.

“When he was given the news about his disease, he made a decision right away to do everything he could to fight,” Mr. Sandoval told CBS.