Danielle Ward Mason

Danielle Ward Mason is a mass tort personal injury attorney who focuses on claims involving dangerous and defective pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices, and consumer products. Her work has centered largely on cases affecting women’s health. 

Danielle currently leads nationwide litigation in multiple state courts involving chemical hair relaxers, which have been linked to reproductive cancers and tumors that disproportionately affect Black women. She has also litigated drug and device cases involving Reglan, hormone replacement therapy, transvaginal mesh, talcum powder, Elmiron, and Invokana. 

Danielle is an active member of the firm’s Sexual Assault and Sex Trafficking practice group, where she advocates for survivors and works to hold perpetrators and enablers accountable. 

She is nationally recognized as one of the country’s most successful talcum powder litigation attorneys and has helped secure nearly $1 billion in verdicts against Johnson & Johnson in cases alleging failure to warn about ovarian cancer risks. Courts have also recognized her commitment to advancing plaintiffs’ interests through leadership appointments, including service on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in federal multidistrict litigation for Elmiron in 2024 and Invokana in 2017. 

Over nearly 20 years of practice, Danielle has received numerous awards and extensive recognition for her legal advocacy. She is an active member of the American Association for Justice, where she serves on several committees and is an active participant in the both the Minority and Women’s Trial Lawyer Caucuses.

Danielle has held numerous leadership roles in Alabama legal organizations, including serving as president of the Alabama Lawyers Association and president of the Montgomery County Association for Justice. Her contributions to legal discourse have also been recognized through her article featured in AAJ Trial Magazine. 

She is especially proud of her partnership and involvement with the Mason Gibbs Plaintiffs Pathway Fellowship, a summer fellowship program bearing her name that introduces rising first-year law students to the values and ideals of plaintiff-centered legal work. 

Danielle was born and raised in historic Montgomery, Alabama, where she currently manages the firm’s Montgomery office.

2027 Best Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America

2026 Forbes America’s Top Women Lawyers 

2025 Forbes America's Best-In-State Lawyers list 

2024 Forbes America’s Top 200 Lawyers List 

2024 Milestone Foundation "Compassionate Counsel" Award Recipient 

2024 Law 360 Diversity & Inclusion Editorial Board Appointee 

2020 Harry M. Philo Award - American Association for Justice 

2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers 

2020-2025 Best Lawyers in America 

2014-2024 Super Lawyers Rising Star 

2017 Law 360 Practice Group of the Year (Talc verdicts) 

2017 Law 360 Rising Star 

2017 Leading Lady award - Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama 

2016 Law 360's Top Attorneys Under 40 

2016 American Association for Justice's F. Scott Baldwin Award 

2016 finalist for the Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Award 

2015 Alabama Black Achievers Award Attorney of the Year 

Affiliations

American Association for Justice (AAJ) 

Alabama Association for Justice (ALAJ) 

Public Justice Board Member 

Society of Women Trial Lawyers Board Member 

Mason Gibbs Plaintiffs’ Pathway Fellowship 

National Bar Association 

National Trial Lawyers Top 100 

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