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Marler Blog (Opinion)

U.S. consumer-advocacy / plaintiff-side food safety (law-firm blog)

Owned byPublished by Marler Clark, Inc., P.S., a Seattle-area (Bainbridge Island, Washington) law firm. Founding partner Bill Marler is the main author and public face of the blog.
FundingFunded by the law firm as a marketing and advocacy outlet. It carries no ads or subscriptions that I could find. The firm earns its revenue from contingency-fee foodborne illness lawsuits, so the blog's coverage overlaps with its business interests.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

The blog is published by Marler Clark, a firm that says it is the only U.S. law firm focused exclusively on foodborne illness litigation. Bill Marler began handling these cases in 1993, when he represented a child severely injured in the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. The firm has since sued over major outbreaks involving companies such as McDonald's, Chipotle, Cargill, ConAgra, Dole and Peanut Corporation of America, and it reports hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements. The blog covers outbreaks, recalls, lawsuits, regulatory actions and policy, and it mixes news-style items with Marler's own commentary. Because the author is a plaintiff's attorney who profits from such suits, readers should know that its cases and its advocacy can overlap, and it often links to the firm's own litigation. Its tone is advocacy-oriented rather than neutral reporting, and it has pressed for stronger food-safety rules across administrations. In 2025–2026 it has criticized HHS-led staff reductions (FDA reportedly lost nearly 3,900 employees in 2025). One June 2026 post said the government was 'turning off the smoke detectors' on the food supply. It has also published joint statements noting that an under-resourced FDA could undermine Secretary Kennedy's own goals for nutrition and ingredient safety.

Sources

  1. Marler Blog
  2. We're Turning Off the Smoke Detectors on America's Food Supply
  3. Consumer, Industry and Public Health Groups' Statement on FDA Staff Reductions
  4. Marler Clark (Wikipedia)
  5. William Marler (Wikipedia)
  6. Bill Marler: The Lawyer Who Changed the Way America Thinks About Food Safety

Profile compiled 2026-10-28; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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