Representative Matters

Pharmaceuticals & Mass Torts
• • Served as co-lead counsel in nationwide litigation involving claims that a contraceptive medical device caused blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and other injuries; assisted in successfully obtaining summary judgment in seven bellwether cases and over a period of several months and, through multiple mediation sessions, helped negotiate a global settlement resolving approximately 3,800 federal and state claims
  • Served as co-lead counsel for major pharmaceutical manufacturer for mass tort litigation involving epileptic medication with allegations of birth defects; involved several jury trials and eventual settlement of hundreds of cases
  • Served as one of the lead counsel in blood thinner medication multidistrict litigation that ultimately resolved thousands of cases
  • Served as an important member of the national team that represented a major pharmaceutical company in one of the largest nationwide mass torts in history, including as a lead trial lawyer, with ultimate resolution of tens of thousands of cases
Product Liability
• • Served for almost 20 years as national counsel for a major child car seat manufacturer, achieving resolution in numerous product liability and personal injury cases across the country through trials, negotiated settlements and mediations
  • Served as regional counsel for a major tire manufacturer and resolved dozens of cases in many states through either trial, negotiated settlement or mediation
  • Served as member of national and regional counsel teams for a wide range of companies, handling product liability disputes in a wide variety of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, child car seats, tires, automobiles, forklifts, power tools, children’s products, trucks and trailers, and railroad equipment
Class Action & Mass Tort
• • Served as co-counsel in a multidistrict litigation involving allegations of misrepresentations related to the marketing of child car seats
  • As lead counsel, represented a major manufacturer of personal care products in a nationwide litigation in numerous venues and assisted in successful resolution through several mediation sessions and months of negotiations
  • As lead counsel, represented a major motor vehicle manufacturer in a statewide class action involving alleged warranty issues and negotiated statewide settlement
  • As lead counsel, represented a large pharmaceutical company in an alleged consumer fraud class action litigation involving a pain medication and assisted in a statewide resolution
Personal Injury
• • As lead counsel, represented trucking company in a serious multi-vehicle accident involving multiple severe injuries; various lawsuits were resolved on the eve of the trial through extensive negotiations over a period of several months
  • As lead counsel, represented two major railroads over the course of almost 20 years in hundreds of personal injury cases that resolved through trial, mediation and/or settlement for individual negotiation
  • As lead counsel, reached settlement against a trucking company on behalf of an individual who sustained serious lower-extremity injuries in a motor vehicle accident
  • As lead counsel, obtained a trial verdict for corporation in a case involving the death of a worker in an industrial accident
Business Commercial
• • As lead counsel, represented a national railway company in litigation involving allegations of commercial defamation and tortious interference; the case ended with judgment in favor of the railway company and was upheld through all appeals
  • As lead counsel, represented individual minority shareholders in closely held corporations in two separate litigations, both resulting in settlements
  • As co-lead counsel, helped reach a settlement for a small business owner in substantial litigation against a major corporation involving claims of breach of warranty and misrepresentation related to the sale of a defective large machine
  • Served as co-lead counsel on behalf of a financial institution and obtained a verdict in a case involving foreclosure and repossession of extensive farm machinery and livestock
Maritime Admiralty
• • Over a period of about 10 years as lead counsel and co-counsel, represented several barge line companies in numerous personal injury and property damage lawsuits, handling matters through trials and negotiated settlements
Appellate
• • Served as lead counsel and co-counsel on all aspects of dozens of appeals in several state and federal appellate courts, many of which involved settlement negotiations and mediations during the pendency of the appeal
  • Served as lead counsel on various aspects of appeals at the state appellate and Supreme Court levels in major business litigation
  • Participated in several appellate litigations addressing product liability and personal injury claims related to pharmaceutical products and automotive products
Entertainment & Sports
• • Served as co-lead counsel in large number of sports arbitration cases over 19 years