A team of lawyers at the Schlesinger Law Offices convinced a Broward County jury to award $37 million in damages to the family of lifelong smoker Rita Mahfuz, who died of lung cancer in 1999.

Steven J. Hammer, Brittany Chambers, Jonathan R. Gdanski and Scott P. Schlesinger argued that tobacco giants R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA Inc. used misleading ads to prey on people like Mahfuz, who was just 13 when she picked up her first pack.

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