Debbie Rouen Email & Phone Number

I love serving as a creative thought partner with my clients. Together we look not simply to replicate past legal strategy but to identify the best strategy for now and going forward. With more than 30 years of experience, I defend clients in class actions, mass torts and complex litigation involving tobacco, pharmaceuticals, refineries, crop fertilizer and Hurricane Katrina and Road Home suits.

Listed skills include Product Liability, Civil Litigation, Litigation, Appeals, and 8 others.

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  Partner

  Adams And Reese Llp

  Aug 1983 - Present

  As leader of the firm’s Product Liability Team. I focus my practice on product liability, toxic tort, environmental, fraud, misrepresentation, conspiracy and punitive damages matters.I have served as national counsel and liaison counsel for defendants, have successfully defeated class certification in both federal and state courts and have a strong track record of early case dismissals through advancing novel legal arguments in motion practice. I have defended pharmaceutical and tobacco companies from suits brought by attorney generals in multiple states, defended tobacco companies in foreign sovereign litigation and led teams of lawyers in defending clients in multi-district litigation.After serving a three-year term as the first woman elected to the firm’s Executive Committee, I was appointed Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee and served in that role for five years. I worked to expand cultural inclusion; partnered with clients to meet diversity requisites; improved recruitment, mentoring and retention of women and minority lawyers; obtained firm recognition in national rankings of women and minority lawyers and increased firm support of minority-sponsored legal, cultural and social events. I am also the former leader of the Class Action/Complex Litigation team.