Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs - Illinois
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What the Team is Known For
Keller Postman is a leading plaintiff firm boasting a wealth of expertise in complex litigation, with particular strength handling large scale product liability suits. The firm possesses additional experience in cases concerning alleged breaches of privacy and consumer protection laws. It is equally adept at acting for large classes of individual plaintiffs as well as municipalities. The team offers impressive handling of multidistrict litigation as well as mass arbitrations.
Strengths
They are very intelligent lawyers and they research, argue and prepare incredibly well.
They are very thorough, very diligent and they have a clear vision of what they want to happen with the case.
In the mass torts and product liability area, they are the premier law firm. Bringing to the practice extraordinary skills and qualifications. They are a cut above the rest.
Work Highlights
Keller Postman led a litigation against Abbott Laboratories and Mead Johnson on behalf of thousands of parents of preterm infants who were alleged to have suffered necrotizing enterocolitis as a result of consuming cow's milk-based formula.
Notable practitioners
Ashley Keller is a cofounder and partner at Keller Postman and leads the mass tort practice. He is renowned for his plaintiff-side litigation expertise, with an impressive track record handling multidistrict actions and mass arbitrations concerning a wide array of products.
He has some extraordinary talent in the area of product liability.
Ashley is probably the smartest guy I know. His command and understanding of the law is like nobody I know. He's compassionate, understands the issues and can create a path forward relatively quickly even when representing half a million people. He is stellar across the board.
Ben Whiting has noteworthy experience acting as trial counsel in large class action lawsuits and product liability matters.
Ben is a tremendously strong lawyer and fundamentally good guy.
Nicole Berg excels in her handling of product liability matters, with experience acting in a national leadership role as well as trial counsel in multidistrict litigation.
