About

Provided by Butler Snow LLP

Product Liability

Butler Snow has a long history of strongly defending product liability claims on a regional and national basis. Our group has extensive experience in handling the defense of single plaintiff and complex, multidistrict class-action and mass tort litigation. Our clients include manufacturers, distributors and service providers from a broad range of industries, including aviation, automotive and truck, firearms, agricultural chemicals and industrial chemicals.


Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare

Few firms in the U.S. have been called upon as often as our firm to serve as local, regional or national counsel in significant pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare cases. Our litigators play leading roles in federal multi-district proceedings and try a broad range of cases, including bellwether cases. Our attorneys are experienced in responding to regulatory, compliance and policy challenges.


Recent Work Highlights

  • We serve as national coordinating counsel for a pharmaceutical company in pelvic mesh multi-district litigation.
  • We represent a chemical company as national counsel in various agricultural chemical product liability cases. 
  • We have been lead trial counsel for an automobile manufacturer in cases across Texas and several other states for 25 years. 
  • We serve as national counsel for a manufacturer handling all commercial and products related claims and lawsuits throughout the U.S.

Chambers Review

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Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Butler Snow has a strong reputation for its knowledge of the life sciences sector, where it regularly acts for a number of leading entities in complex product liability claims. The firm is also noted for its handling of disputes involving agricultural chemicals and automobiles. The team has substantial experience handling major multidistrict litigation and widely regarded as one of the leading litigation firms in the Southeast, while making significant inroads elsewhere in the country.

Work Highlights

  • Butler Snow served as national counsel for AbbVie defending litigation involving the use of the ZELTIQ/Allergan CoolSculpting device.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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William Gage
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William Gage
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William Gage is renowned for acting as lead counsel for major pharmaceutical trial companies in large MDLs, drawing particular praise for his achievements in pelvic mesh litigation.

He's a fantastic attorney.

He is top-notch at providing clients with strategies in mass tort litigation.

Orlando R. Richmond
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Orlando R. Richmond
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Orlando Richmond regularly serves as lead counsel and co-counsel on a range of mass tort litigations, including both pharmaceutical cases and toxic torts.

He is a great, creative lawyer.

He is a phenomenal trial lawyer.

Orlando is fantastic.

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Alyson Bustamante Jones
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Alyson Bustamante Jones serves as practice group leader for Butler Snow's pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare group. She provides adroit representation to clients across these sectors in complex product liability disputes.

Alyson is a phenomenal case manager and a strong litigator. She knows everything that is going on in all my cases at any given time, such that I can ask her any question and she knows the answer.

She is incredibly responsive. Alyson can jump in and is able to dig into the issues quickly. She also has a good understanding of what we need as a client.

Alyson is well prepared and extremely organized.

Ranked Lawyers at
Butler Snow LLP

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Product Liability & Mass Torts

William Gage
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William Gage
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Orlando R. Richmond
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Orlando R. Richmond
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Alyson Bustamante Jones
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Members

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Alyson Bustamante Jones

Head of Department

Fred E. Bourn III

Head of Department