Diandra “Fu” Debrosse Zimmermann

Diandra “Fu” Debrosse Zimmermann

Partner
Birmingham Washington, DC

Fu fights for those who have been wronged—whether an individual or public entity—and over her career has recovered hundreds of millions for those impacted.

Fu fights for those who have been wronged—whether an individual or public entity—and over her career has recovered hundreds of millions for those impacted.

Overview

Diandra “Fu” Debrosse Zimmermann is Managing Partner of DiCello Levitt’s Birmingham office, and Co-Chair of the firm’s Mass Tort division. Fu is also a member of the firm’s Public Client, Environmental, Personal Injury, Civil Rights, and Trial practice groups. Widely known for her relentless client advocacy, Fu represents individuals and public entities injured by wrongful conduct, whether from defective medical devices or drugs, environmental contamination, corporate misconduct, or civil rights abuse. Nationally recognized as a powerhouse in mass torts, class actions, products liability, discrimination, and sexual assault claims, Fu has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in client damages.

Fu holds prominent leadership positions for several multidistrict litigations, including Co-Lead Counsel of In re: Abbott Laboratories, et al., Preterm Infant Nutrition Products Liability Litigation; Co-Lead Counsel of In re: Hair Relaxer Marketing Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation; Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee for In re: Paraquat Products Liability Litigation; Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for In re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/ Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation; Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for In re: Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Hip Implant Liability Litigation. She also represents municipalities in both In re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation and In re: McKinsey & Company Inc., National Prescription Opiate Consultant Litigation, and is counsel in In re: Proton Pump Inhibitor Litigation. Fu formerly held a seat on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for In re: Higher One Account Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation and has represented plaintiffs in many other MDLs. Fu also leads many systematic civil rights and sexual assault cases and represents states and municipalities in litigation.

The National Law Journal has named Fu to its Elite Women of the Plaintiffs Bar list for 2023. In 2022 and 2023, Lawdragon recognized Fu as one of the 500 Leading Consumer Lawyers. Chambers USA 2022 ranked the firm’s Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs team among the top five in Alabama. The Birmingham Business Journal honored Fu with a Best of the Bar Award and Who’s Who in the Law recognitions in 2021 and 2022.

Fu is a founding member of Shades of Mass, an organization dedicated to encouraging the appointment of black and brown attorneys in national mass tort actions. She is a board member of Public Justice, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and a member of the Birmingham Bar Foundation. Fu previously served as a hearing officer for the Alabama State Bar, held leadership roles in the American Association for Justice and the Alabama Access to Justice Commission, and acted as Alabama State Bar vice president and commissioner.

Fu is fluent in French and Haitian Creole and functional in Spanish. Her steadfast pursuit of justice is motivated in large part by her experience as a mother of two young girls.

Hear From Fu


Education

Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D.

City College of the City University of New York, B.A., summa cum laude

Hear From Fu


Education

Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D.

City College of the City University of New York, B.A., summa cum laude