About

Provided by Tucker Ellis LLP

The Tucker Ellis Mass Tort & Product Liability Practice represents a diverse portfolio of companies at both trial and appellate levels in tens of thousands of cases filed in state and federal courts nationwide. The team focuses on the national, regional, and local defense of premises and product liability cases involving industrial, commercial, and consumer products - including allegations specific to a unique product - as well as toxic tort or repeat litigation related to alleged similar product defects - and exposures to substances such as super absorbent polymers, asbestos, silica, coal mine dust, benzene, diacetyl, talc, vinyl chloride, lead and heavy metals, formaldehyde, PFAS, and mold.

The Tucker Ellis Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Liability Practice brings a combination of deep industry insight, trial acumen, and strategic vision to defending disputes in the life-sciences sector. The team works with nationally known experts to defend medical device and pharmaceutical liability cases, translating complex science and technical knowledge into compelling narratives to seek favorable rulings and verdicts. They serve as national, regional, or trial counsel in proceedings involving hundreds to thousands of individual plaintiffs in federal MDLs, coordinated state actions, and single-plaintiff bellwethers nationwide and have obtained complete defense verdicts in notoriously plaintiff-friendly venues – including wins in preterm infant formula, pelvic-mesh, and talc.

Chambers Review

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

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Tucker Ellis has an impressively comprehensive team that is commended for its strategic thinking and courtroom advocacy. The firm offers significant experience in serving as national coordinating counsel to major pharmaceutical clients. Members of the team are also frequently active in litigation regarding medical devices and toxic torts, both at trial and appellate level. Its strong national platform sees the firm act in multidistrict litigation consolidated in courts across the USA.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Laura Kingsley Hong
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Laura Kingsley Hong
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Band 1
Laura Kingsley Hong chairs the firm's product liability group and frequently acts as first-chair trial counsel in mass torts at both the state and federal level.

Laura is well respected.

She is instrumental to accomplishing our objective.

Sherry Knutson
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Sherry Knutson
3
Band 3
Sherry Knutson is widely respected for her experience in high-profile product liability MDLs, regularly acting in pharmaceutical cases and toxic torts.

Sherry has great trial experience, dedication and knowledge.

Sherry is a great trial lawyer and is so easy to work with.

Michael Zellers
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Michael Zellers
6
Band 6
Michael Zellers comes recommended for his representation of clients facing challenging litigation at both the state and national level, regularly handling large MDLs.

Michael is a great product liability lawyer.

Mollie Benedict
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Mollie Benedict
6
Band 6
Mollie Benedict is a go-to lawyer for pharmaceutical manufacturers facing complex product liability claims and frequently serves as trial counsel and in national coordinating roles in multidistrict litigation.

Mollie is incredibly responsive, thorough and thoughtful.

Charissa N. Walker
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Charissa N. Walker
U
Up and Coming

Charissa Walker is highlighted for growing expertise as a trial advocate in complex product liability matters. She has particular expertise in consumer product cases.

Charissa is a trial lawyer with amazing energy who is very smart on her feet. She has good instincts.

When Charissa gets into action, you want her on your side, not the other.

She is a rising star as a trial advocate.

Ranked Lawyers at
Tucker Ellis LLP

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USA - Nationwide

Product Liability & Mass Torts

Sherry Knutson
3
Sherry Knutson
3
Band 3
Laura Kingsley Hong
5
Laura Kingsley Hong
Head of Product Liability & Mass Torts
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Band 5
Michael Zellers
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Michael Zellers
6
Band 6
Mollie Benedict
6
Mollie Benedict
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Band 6
Charissa N. Walker
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Charissa N. Walker
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Up and Coming
Product Liability: Toxic Torts

Laura Kingsley Hong
1
Laura Kingsley Hong
1
Band 1

Members

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Abigail Williams

Aggie Lee

Amanda Villalobos

Andrea Lowe

Andrea Przybysz

Anthony Brosamle

Ashley Saferight

Bradley Dennis

Brenda Sweet

Brendan Kelley

Brian Huelsmann

Brittany Weiss

Caroline Tinsley

Celia Carroll

Chang Stephanie

Charissa Walker

Christina Marino

Christopher Caryl

Christopher Gardino

Cicely Lubben

Clifford Mendelsohn

Connor Doughty

Courtenay Jalics

DT Amajoyi

Daniel Kelly

David Bernstein

DeAngelo LaVette

Drew Kemp

Dylan Boyd

Edward Taber

Elizabeth Cummings

Elizabeth LaSavio

Ernest Auciello

Frank Garritano

Giuseppe Pappalardo

Jack Goldwood

James Cunningham

James Mizgala

James Shultz

Jeffrey Sandler

Jeffrey Whitesell

Jennifer Steinmetz

John Favret

Jonathan Cooper

Joseph Manno

Joseph Morford

Josh Wes

Julie Callsen

Justin Rice

K. Michele Anderson

Kaitlyn Pangburn

Karen Ross

Karl Borgsmiller

Kelli Novak

Kelly Baldini

Knight Anderson

Lance Wilson

Laura Kingsley Hong

Laura Kingsley Hong

Head of Department

Madeline Dennis

Madeline Fogel

Maxwell Huber

Michael Anderton

Michael Choi

Mollie Benedict

Monica Williams Monroe

Nathan Nasrallah

Nathan Newman

Nicholas Janizeh

Nicole Gage

Nicole Lewis

Patrick Barkley

Peter Choate

Peter Voudouris

Raymond Krncevic

Rebecca Biernat

Richard Dean

Riley Shaw

Rita Maimbourg

Ryan Winkler

Sarena Holder

Scott Hunsaker

Scott Wilkov

Seema Kadaba

Sherry Knutson

Sherry Knutson

Head of Department

Su-Lyn Combs

Tariq Naeem

Head of Department

Thomas Baker

Traci Shafroth

V Sathienmars

Valeria Golodnitska

Victoria Vance

Industries

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Aerospace & Defense

Automobiles & Parts

Chemicals

Commercial & Professional Services

Consumer Product Manufacturing

Industrial Engineering

Industrial and Construction Machinery

Medical Devices

Mining and Metals

Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences