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Podhurst Orseck partners Steven Marks and Peter Prieto have maintained their firm’s status as an elite trial boutique through a string of major lawsuits. In the past few years, Prieto obtained more than $340 million for customers of Volkswagen and Ford who bought cars with faulty Takata air bags, and Marks won $866 million in damages for the families of 43 Brazilian soccer players killed in a 2016 plane crash.