Attorneys at the Schlesinger Law Offices in Fort Lauderdale convinced a jury to award $25 million in punitive and $12 million in compensatory damages to the family of Rita Mahfuz, who died of lung cancer after a lifetime of smoking R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris cigarettes.

Steven J. Hammer, Brittany Chambers and Jonathan R. Gdanski argued that the tobacco giants used misleading ads to prey on people like Mahfuz, who was just 13 years old when she picked up her first pack.