Brian K. Herrington

Brian K. Herrington is a founding partner of Chhabra Gibbs & Herrington PLLC, a national mass tort and class action firm and a sister firm of Chhabra, Gibbs & Gustavis, P.A. He leads the firm with partners Rogen K. Chhabra and Darryl M. Gibbs. He is based in Kansas City, Missouri, and has litigated cases from Maine to Hawaii.

Brian’s work centers on large cases brought on behalf of many people at once: mass torts, where many people are harmed by the same product or conduct, and consumer class actions, where one case is brought for a whole group of consumers.

Brian is from Greenwood, Mississippi. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Mississippi College in 1991, after an exchange year in 1990–91 at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. He earned his law degree from the University of Mississippi Law Center in 1995, where he clerked for the University’s General Counsel.

He was admitted to The Mississippi Bar in 1995 and licensed in Tennessee in 1999, and is admitted to all state courts in both states. He is also admitted in the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Michigan and the Northern District of Florida, and in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C., Fifth, and Ninth Circuits. Brian speaks on mass torts, class actions, identity theft, and arbitration. He is a member of the Mississippi Association for Justice, the American Association for Justice, and Public Justice.

From 1995 to 1999, Brian was a partner on the legal team that represented 14 states seeking to recover taxpayer money spent treating smoking-related illnesses. He was a member of the lead counsel team in In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation, No. 12-md-02311, a group of antitrust cases over auto parts pricing that were combined before one federal court in Michigan. Federal courts have appointed him Class Counsel for three nationwide groups of consumers who bought mislabeled food, in the Northern District of California, and named him to the committee of lawyers leading the plaintiffs’ side in Orr, et al. v. InterContinental Hotels Group, PLC, et al., No. 1:17-cv-01622, in federal court in Atlanta. He was a member of the steering committee that litigated numerous state court class actions over late fees.

At trial, Brian was lead counsel in the first trial after the recall of over-the-counter medicines containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA), against Bayer Corp. in the Circuit Court of Hinds County, Mississippi. He has argued appeals in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. and Eleventh Circuits, including a case over store receipts that printed customers’ full credit card numbers and a case brought by restaurants that said their boxes of poultry were delivered underweight.