About Gary
Gary B. Mims has practiced law since 1980. He was a defense litigator for 20 years, defending a heavy schedule of trials involving automobile, trucking, train and other transportation accidents and a wide variety of personal injury cases. He developed a special interest and significant experience in medical malpractice, first from the defense side, and since 1999, as a plaintiff's attorney. He has successfully represented clients in complicated medical cases involving, among other things, failure to diagnose cancer, defective joint prostheses, brain injury, anesthesia-related injuries and weight-loss drugs. Gary has also successfully represented clients suffering injury and death by a massive train wreck, defective golf course design, and a defective storm retention pond, among others.
Practice Areas
Case History
Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, Washington, DC (2017)
- Recognized: Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Recognized: Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Recognized: Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Recognized: Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Practice Area: Medical Malpractice Law
- Practice Area: Personal Injury Litigation
- Special Focus: Catastrophic Injury
- Special Focus: Civil Litigation
- Special Focus: Medical Malpractice
- Special Focus: Nursing Homes
- Special Focus: Premises Liability
- Special Focus: Product Liability
- Special Focus: Wrongful Death
- Lawyer of the Year, 2017, Medical Malpractice
- Named to Super Lawyer's roster since 2008
- Named to Best Lawyers' roster since 2005
- Best Law Firm, by US News, since inception 2010
- Top Attorney (top 1%) Personal Injury. Washingtonian, since 2007