Pond North LLP

Pond North LLP provides strategic litigation defense to its clients. Always ready to try a case, the firm is judicious in using this strength, defending each client’s unique goals in litigation. The firm’s primary practice area is the defense of complex toxic tort and mass tort and property damage claims, with specialized experience in cases dealing with cancer of bodily organs and injuries to the respiratory and central nervous systems. Pond North LLP’s principals, Frank Pond and Christine North, as well as other partner-level lawyers at Pond North, have regularly and successfully defended their clients’ interests in litigation and trial specializing in asbestos personal injury, death and property damage claims; environmental claims; product liability claims; accident injury claims; and claims relating to the defense of retailers and retail operations. Pond North LLP’s attorneys also have significant experience providing the defense in employment law matters and in prosecuting and defending contractual and commercial disputes primarily relating to the entertainment, maritime and transportation industries. Pond North LLP’s client base is a mix of Fortune 50 companies, Fortune 500 companies, and “Mom and Pop” companies and stems from both direct appointment by corporate General Counsel and insurance company assignment. Pond North LLP’s attorneys represent a multitude of industries, including friction and automotive products, construction and building products, fireproofing and fire-resistant products, heating and ventilating equipment, adhesives, insulation, military equipment, plastics, talcum products, as well as manufacturers and suppliers of a myriad of other products. In the toxic and mass tort context, with special reference to asbestos claims, Pond North LLP serves its clients on national, regional, and local levels. The partners are well-respected trial lawyers having collectively taken a significant number of cases to trial.