Mark G. Strauss

For nearly four decades, Mark Strauss has worked on the question that confronts many people diagnosed with mesothelioma: Where did the asbestos exposure occur?

His asbestos career began in the Midwest, where he attended hundreds of asbestos depositions and monitored asbestos trials in Madison and St. Clair Counties, Illinois. After returning to New York, he worked extensively in federal asbestos litigation, including consolidated litigation involving New York City powerhouses and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and later worked on the Georgine asbestos class action.

Those years became an education in asbestos—not simply in litigation, but in the products, companies, workplaces and trades behind exposures that had occurred decades earlier.

In 1996, Mark became a principal in his own law firm. For the next 17 years, through 2013, he continued representing people and families affected by asbestos-related disease while developing an increasing focus on historical product identification.

That research grew to include old catalogs and product literature, corporate and supplier records, and the historical relationships among raw-material suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, workplaces and trades. His work later expanded beyond conventional asbestos products to include talc and vermiculite.

At Humpleby & Strauss, P.C., that experience begins with something simple: listening. A person may remember the work, the machine or the product without remembering—or ever having known—the manufacturer, supplier or component that matters to the investigation.

Mark's work is directed toward filling those gaps.