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Practice Areas

Environmental

Securities & Consumer Fraud

Licensed In

NY, SC

Admitted to Practice Before

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Second,Third, Fourth and Tenth Circuits

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the District of South Carolina

Education

LL.M./J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1993

B.A., University of North Carolina, 1985

South Carolina

Frederick C. Baker
Member Attorney

Frederick C. Baker

Fred Baker currently divides his time between environmental, commercial, and securities and consumer fraud matters.

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. He was 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 Graniteville train derailment chlorine spill and the currently pending West Virginia unfair trade practices insurance class action. Additionally, he has helped litigate large scale environmental contamination cases.

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