Attorneys from the Schlesinger Law Offices are serving as plaintiffs counsel in the nation’s first wrongful death case brought by a same-sex spouse against Big Tobacco to proceed to trial.

Litigators Jonathan R. Gdanski, Brittany C. Barron and Jeffrey L. Haberman are representing Bryan Rintoul in his Engle progeny suit against several tobacco companies in Broward Circuit Court. Rintoul is pursuing legal action against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Philip Morris USA Inc. and Lorillard Tobacco Co. as the personal representative of the estate of Edward Caprio, his late husband.