Steve Geise

Steve Geise is a nationally recognized first-chair trial lawyer who focuses on representing companies in high-stakes cases involving millions of dollars in potential damages. He has tried dozens of product liability cases and has won defense verdicts coast to coast in federal and state courts. Among his notable results, in 2023, Steve's team secured a defense verdict for a pharmaceutical company in Pikeville, Kentucky, defeating a multibillion dollar fraud claim by a major insurance company over off-label prescriptions of oncology medicines. In February of 2021, Steve secured a defense verdict in a Portland, Oregon, trial on behalf of a cigarette manufacturer in one of the first in-person jury trials to take place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Steve represents manufacturers of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, opioids, fluorochemicals, and other consumer goods in all phases of individual, class action and MDL litigation. Steve is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Steve is the Co-Practice Leader of Jones Day’s Business and Tort Litigation Practice.