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Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded | USA

USA - Nationwide

This chapter encompasses legal claims that allow an injured party to recover financial compensation from the manufacturer or seller of a product. This can include faulty brakes, contaminated food and medicine lacking appropriate label warnings. Law firms advise manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers and others who make the product available to the public. It also covers toxic tort, relating to the exposure to chemicals, pharmaceutical drugs or occupational hazards. Most pharmaceutical claims are mass tort cases because drugs are consumed by thousands of people. Occupational toxic tort cases occur where industrial and other works have been exposed to toxic chemicals. Most of the law in this area has traditionally arisen from asbestos exposure. The chapter also recognizes firms who represent plaintiffs in products liability litigation.

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Band 1
  1. Barnes & Thornburg LLP
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    Barnes & Thornburg LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 1 | 3 Years Ranked
    Barnes & Thornburg possesses an accomplished product liability and class action team equally capable in a national coordination and lead trial role. The firm has further expertise serving as national discovery and settlement counsel. It attracts a broad client base, with strength in the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors as well as consumer products, technology and retail. The group is further skilled in handling disputes involving cosmetics and other consumer products.
  2. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 1 | 3 Years Ranked
    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings is a widely recognized firm with impressive national capabilities, drawing on strength in markets such as Florida, Texas and Alabama. It regularly represents leading pharmaceutical companies in both state and federal courts as well as acting in asbestos litigation. The firm is well regarded for its handling of complex MDLs. It possesses a strong bench of trial lawyers as well as those well versed in appellate law.
  3. Campbell Conroy & O'Neil, P.C.
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    Campbell Conroy & O'Neil, P.C.
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 1 | 3 Years Ranked
    Campbell Conroy & O'Neil is a dedicated trial boutique with formidable courtroom experience and significant technical expertise. Especially well regarded for automotive-related product liability issues, and maintains well-established relationships with several leading manufacturers in this space. Further strengths in toxic torts, most notably in asbestos cases. Also attracts mandates from a number of major insurers, as well as consumer goods companies.
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    Irwin Fritchie Urquhart Moore & Daniels LLC
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 1 | 3 Years Ranked
    Irwin Fritchie is a Louisiana-based firm with an increasingly significant presence in national product liability cases. The team frequently acts on major pharmaceutical and medical device MDLs. It also demonstrates strength in cases involving complex technical and scientific issues.
  5. Norton Rose Fulbright
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    Norton Rose Fulbright
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 1 | 3 Years Ranked
    Norton Rose Fulbright has a broad product liability practice, with experience spanning pharmaceutical, medical device and automobile product lines. It is also noted for its expert handling of toxic tort claims. The firm maintains strong links with major entities in the petrochemical industry. It has a strong platform and trial experience attracts a diverse national and multinational client base. Its attorneys defend product liability cases of all sizes, from single-plaintiff claims to large multijurisdictional litigation.
  6. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 1 | 3 Years Ranked
    Orrick is highlighted for its expertise in toxic tort litigation, with a particular specialty in defending chemical industry giants from asbestos-related mass tort claims. It fields a strong bench of capable trial lawyers who are regularly called upon to act in national counsel and first-chair trial roles. The team is also noted for its experience representing Chinese state-owned enterprises in domestic US litigation.
  7. Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
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    Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 1 | 3 Years Ranked
    Weil, Gotshal & Manges has a strong trial group with notable skills in class action litigation. It represents a series of high-profile consumer product manufacturers, most significantly in the automobile, energy and pharmaceutical sectors. The firm's national coverage allows it to defend class actions across key jurisdictions including California, New Jersey and DC. It has further strength in mass torts and antitrust litigation.
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Band 2
  1. Crowell & Moring LLP
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    Crowell & Moring LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 2 | 3 Years Ranked
    Crowell & Moring has an impressive practice counseling a broad range of clients including pharmaceutical, automotive, transportation and medical device manufacturers. The firm provides regulatory and litigation advice related to product liability matters involving the CPSC and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It has extensive experience in class action and multidistrict litigation, including disputes involving environmental damage claims.
  2. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
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    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 2 | 3 Years Ranked
    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is an esteemed litigation practice with considerable strength in consumer class actions and nationwide product liability claims. The team frequently acts on large-scale federal cases in the automobile and technology sectors. It fields a strong appellate team with a notable track record in big-ticket proceedings, complemented by a leading trial team. It has further experience in toxic torts, environmental cases and mass torts in the food and beverage industry.
  3. McCarter & English, LLP
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    McCarter & English, LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 2 | 3 Years Ranked
    McCarter & English has significant expertise in pharmaceutical and medical device product liability mandates. It regularly appears in federal and state courts in class action, mass tort and multidistrict litigation. The team has wide knowledge of appellate and discovery matters. Its broad client base includes construction manufacturers, energy companies and transportation firms.
  4. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
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    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 2 | 3 Years Ranked
    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP has a respected mass tort group with a particular strength in asbestos liability matters. It also has a strong track record in automotive, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation. Strong nationwide presence sees the firm try cases across multiple states, often coordinating large-scale multidistrict litigation. The team has notable insurance recovery capabilities.
  5. Winston & Strawn LLP
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    Winston & Strawn LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 2 | 3 Years Ranked
    Winston & Strawn has a strong practice with expertise in federal multidistrict litigation and mass tort cases. Sought after by wide range of clients from the pharmaceutical, medical device, aviation and automotive sectors. Has notable skills in a broad range of product liability matters including opiate litigation, failure-to-warn issues and mislabeling cases. Also offers expert counseling on environmental matters.
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Band 3
  1. Goodwin
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    Goodwin
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 3 | 3 Years Ranked
    Goodwin's broad-based practice has a significant trial capability. Core expertise in pharmaceutical and toxic tort litigation. Provides clients with a wealth of knowledge on regulatory issues related to product liability, and draws on strong food and beverage regulatory expertise. Also noted for its extensive life sciences industry experience, offering impressive scientific and technological expertise.
  2. McGuireWoods LLP
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    McGuireWoods LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked
    McGuireWoods has a prominent product liability practice with broad experience in mass torts and multidistrict litigation. It is particularly noted for its expert handling of disputes arising from the automotive sector, while also active in areas such as pharmaceuticals and retail. The team has significant experience in consumer fraud class action and asbestos and toxic exposure cases.
  3. Perkins Coie LLP
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    Perkins Coie LLP
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 3 | 3 Years Ranked
    Perkins Coie is highlighted for its broad product liability reach, with particular focus on counseling technology innovators in emerging sectors. Noted for its expertise in fast-moving areas such as virtual reality and vehicle automation. Attracts significant automotive, aviation and heavy industry mandates, as well as handling Proposition 65 litigation in the food and beverage space. Offers strength in traditional tort areas such as asbestos litigation.
  4. Watkins & Eager PLLC
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    Watkins & Eager PLLC
    Product Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
    2023 | Band 3 | 3 Years Ranked
    Watkins & Eager represents an impressive roster of product manufacturers from the automotive, pharmaceutical and transportation sectors. It has notable experience in mass torts and multidistrict litigation, as well as knowledge of asbestos matters. The team also has broad expertise in appellate and trial settings along with claims investigation matters.