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

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What the Team is Known For

Faegre Drinker has a highly respected team of product liability experts offering extensive experience in toxic tort and automobile disputes as part of a broad litigation practice. The firm handles major product liability matters for a wide client base, including medical device and food and beverage entities. The team has an impressive track record in defending against both single-plaintiff and high-stakes mass tort actions across the USA, offering particular strength in the life sciences space. The firm also maintains an impressive bench of trial lawyers in this market.

Work Highlights

  • Faegre Drinker represented Cook Medical as national counsel in a federal multidistrict litigation involving Cook’s inferior vena cava filter products.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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E Paul Cauley
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E Paul Cauley
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Paul Cauley is noted for his impressive strength in defending major automotive manufacturers against large-scale consumer class actions, multidistrict litigation and claims brought by state attorneys general. He cochairs the firm's nationwide class action team and is based out of the Dallas office.

He is a very good lawyer.

Andrea Pierson
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Andrea Pierson
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Andrea Pierson has garnered a strong reputation for medical device MDLs, including those regarding pelvic mesh products and knee replacements.

Andrea provides excellent work product.

She is an excellent trial lawyer.

Susan M Sharko
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Susan M Sharko
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Susan Sharko routinely acts as national coordinating counsel for leading companies in mass torts and MDLs across a wide range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices and toxic torts.

You go to her when you have bet-the-company litigation and she can take things apart methodically. She can dissect expert witnesses and the science behind a case.

She's very smart, a great tactician and also fantastic in her arguments.

Ranked Lawyers at
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

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Product Liability & Mass Torts

Andrea Pierson
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Andrea Pierson
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Susan M Sharko
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Susan M Sharko
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Band 4
Product Liability: Automobile

E Paul Cauley
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E Paul Cauley
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Band 1