Fred Baker represents individuals, consumers, institutional investors, governmental entities, unions, whistleblowers and other multi-employers in complex securities and consumer fraud litigation, including shareholder rights, unfair trade practices and whistleblower/qui tam claims. With a diverse complex litigation background, Fred also holds a leadership role within firm's environmental and occupational disease and toxic tort teams.

Over the course of his legal career, Fred has litigated a broad range of complex cases in the environmental, medical costs recovery, consumer and products liability fields. A member of the legal team that litigated the groundbreaking tobacco litigation on behalf of several State Attorneys General, he also participated in the litigation of individual tobacco cases, entity tobacco cases and a tobacco class action.

Fred has served as counsel in a number of class actions, including the two class action settlements arising out of the 2005 Graniteville train derailment chlorine spill and the currently pending West Virginia unfair trade practices insurance class action. He additionally litigates large scale environmental contamination cases. After representing the state of Oklahoma in a recent case against poultry integrators alleging that poultry waste polluted natural resources in Eastern Oklahoma, Fred became actively involved with the firm's representation of individuals and businesses in Gulf Coast communities suffering as a result of the BP oil spill.

Fred began practicing with Motley Rice attorneys in 1994 and currently chairs the firm’s attorney hiring committee.