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I am President and Chief Operating Officer of the firm and a senior member of our Product Liability and Mass Tort and Environment and Energy practices. I am an active leader in our cross-disciplinary team focused on the representation of clients in manufacturing and distribution industries.I focus on the defense of manufacturers in a variety of complex product liability, toxic tort and environmental litigation regionally and nationally. I supervise the management of mass tort, product liability and other multi-party litigation nationally for several manufacturing clients, developing and implementing coordinated litigation strategies to control or eliminate the significant exposure posed by such claims. I also litigate and try complicated environmental disputes involving other companies, states and municipalities, the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Justice. My litigation experience includes mass torts and environmental disputes connected with a variety of allegedly toxic substances, including dioxin, PCB’s, asbestos, silica, mold, vinyl chloride, benzenes, nickel, perchlorate and TCE/PCE.I am part of the firm’s insurance coverage practice and I have extensive experience in locating and securing legacy insurance coverage to cover the cost and risk of the matters I defend. The long-term nature of the matters I handle has required me to study, understand and litigate complicated corporate organization and successor-liability issues in state and federal courts around the country.

Listed skills include Product Liability, Toxic Tort, Litigation, Class Actions, and 21 others.