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Joseph Scott Nabers (born July 21, 1964 in Brownwood, Texas) is a well known pharmaceutical and medical device injury attorney and a partner of Blizzard, McCarthy & Nabers, LLC based in Houston, Texas.

Education:
Nabers graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas with a business degree. He secured his law degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas.

Legal Career:
Nabers began his legal career as a law clerk and worked his way up to an associate position at Fisher, Gallagher & Lewis, L.L.P., specializing in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation. While at the firm, Scott resolved hundreds of silicone breast implant cases for women across the country. In 1998, Nabers joined the law firm of Helm, Pletcher, Bowen & Saunders, L.L.P., the oldest Plaintiff firm in Houston at the time. He started the firm's Mass Tort Division and Pharmaceutical Litigation Department. Nabers was made a partner in 2000. While at the firm, Scott was responsible for resolving the firm's entire diet drug docket and for developing the Sulzer hip implant and Rezulin dockets. In 2001, Scott joined Blizzard, McCarthy & Nabers, L.L.P. as a Partner, bringing to the firm multiple pharmaceutical dockets. Nabers has represented plaintiffs in mass tort cases involving Fen-Phen, Redux, Rezulin, Vioxx, Ephedra, Sulzer, Medtronic, Paxil, Prozac][, [[Zoloft, Denture Cream, Reglan. Byetta, AMO, Renu, Advair, Serevent, Digitek, Alli, Baychol. He has also participated in various state court discovery committees related to diet drugs, hip implants and prescription drugs.

In 2009, he served as a lead counsel on a Philadelphia case where the jury returned a record setting Plaintiff verdict for $200 million for two individuals who suffered heart valve damage after taking the diet drug Fen-Phen. He has continued to win large verdicts for the firm’s clients.

Awards, Honors and Memberships:
Scott was admitted to the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum as a result of his multiple, multi-million dollar verdicts. He was nominated for the American Board of Trial Lawyers by his peers and now serves as an active member. He is also a member of the American Association of Justice and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.

Most recently, Nabers has worked with patients suffering from medical problems associated with Paxil, Denture Cream and Reglan.

Personal:
Scott was born in Brownwood, Texas and graduated from Brownwood High School where he was on the varsity tennis team. He captured many sports awards in high school including a state tennis championship trophy his senior year. He also played on the varsity tennis team for Baylor University and friends say that it was through sports that he developed his tenacious competitive nature.

Nabers now resides in Katy, Texas. He has four children, Lauren, Kailey, Jack & Sam. He is involved in a myriad of community activities related to his children’s school and sports interests. He also enjoys hunting, golf, boating and other sport activities.