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If you or a loved one suffered from a tobacco injury or any ill effects of smoking, call today for a free confidential consultation with our tobacco injury attorneys.

Call us if you have suffered from any of the following:

Lung Cancer

Bladder Cancer

Laryngeal Voice Box Cancer

Tongue or Oral Cavity Cancer

Throat Cancer

Strokes

Heart Disease

COPD/Emphysema

We are here to fight for justice and the compensation you may deserve from large tobacco companies. These large and powerful tobacco companies can be challenging. We have a track record of winning cases against the tobacco companies and we are here to help. If you have been injured, the attorneys from The Pate Law Firm can guide you through the legal complexities. You do not need to suffer in silence. We can be your voice.

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Common Reasons for Recent Tobacco-Related Lawsuits

Many tobacco litigation cases that have been filed since 1994 have found success against the big tobacco companies. Many lawsuits are now filed against tobacco companies for the following reasons:

Fraudulent Marketing

Marketing to Underage Persons

Conspiracy to Conceal the Health Hazards of Smoking Cigarettes

Virgin Island Tobacco Injury Attorneys

The Pate Law Firm is here to assist you if you have suffered as a result of tobacco companies’ irresponsible and misleading behavior. Throughout the nation there are thousands of cases pending against large tobacco companies and cigarette manufacturers. Many cases have resulted in the favor of the injured individuals for substantial amounts of money. Our tobacco injury attorneys have won millions in compensation for clients and partnering with other law firms who also focus on this area of the law.

Meet Attorney J. Russell B. Pate, Esq., LLM

Attorney J. Russell B. Pate earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law. He then earnd a masters-of-law from California Western School of Law in San Diego in the area of trial advocacy. Attorney Pate started his legal career working for a large plaintiff’s law firm helping people around the world who had developed cancer from exposure to asbestos and other toxic substances. Next, he worked with the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Texas practicing criminal defense in the federal courts of the United States. Before opening his own law firm he worked for an insurance defense firm on St. Thomas. Attorney Pate was voted Best Lawyer in 2011, 2012, 2018 and 2019 by the readers of the Virgin Islands Daily News. He has served on the Virgin Islands Bar Association’s Board of Governors from 2012-2017 and was President of the Virgin Islands Bar Association in 2016.

Attorney Pate has passed the bar in three States and two Territories. He is admitted to practice law in the Virgin Islands, North Carolina, Texas and Florida. He is also admitted to practice in the federal courts of the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the District Court of Puerto Rico, the Northern District of Texas, the Southern District of Florida, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Attorney Pate is a strong advocate for the United States to stop treating Americans in the U.S. Territories as second-class citizens. Men and women in the Virgin Islands have fought for the United States in all branches of the military. All gave some and some gave all, laying down their lives for the American freedoms of democracy and liberty. There is no excuse why Americans in the Virgin Islands should not be included in every level of government which governs them. This is a basic and fundamental principal of American democracy. Those in the USVI should be able to vote for the President, two U.S. Senators and a Congressional Representative, as well as run for those positions themselves.

Outside of his advocacy, Attorney Pate enjoys gardening and growing Caribbean and African herbs, plants and trees to make local bush teas. You may also see him paddleboarding from Rainbow Beach to Sandy Point or across the Big Island spray-painting yellow warnings around potholes.

J. Russell B. Pate

Attorney at Law

Virgin Island Office:

The Pate Law Firm

P.O. Box 370, Christiansted, V.I.

00821-0370

(340) 777-PATE (7283)

SunLawVi[at]gmail.com

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