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I am trial lawyer with over 25 years of experience in product liability and toxic tort cases, with an emphasis on defending pharmaceutical and medical device companies. I have tried cases to verdict in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Georgia and West Virginia. I have served as national coordinating counsel in multiple pharmaceutical mass torts, and as lead counsel in several coordinated proceedings in Chicago. I co-chair the Tucker Ellis Health & Life Sciences Group – a multidisciplinary team with a distinctive combination of medical, scientific, and technical knowledge and decades of industry experience – that represents clients in a broad range of health and life sciences matters across the country.REPRESENTATIVE CASES:*Served as second-chair trial counsel in premature infant formula case, obtaining unanimous defense verdict on claims of strict liability and negligence after plaintiff's counsel requested over $6.27 billion in compensatory and punitive damages during closing argument*Served as lead trial counsel in transvaginal mesh product liability case, obtaining defense verdict on failure to warn after plaintiff’s counsel requested over $8.6 million in compensatory damages during closing argument *Served as lead trial counsel in a case involving talcum powder in Georgia, securing a complete defense verdict after plaintiff requesting over $84 million in damages* Served as co-lead trial counsel in a case involving transvaginal mesh in Chicago, securing a defense verdict on two of three claims; jury awarded only $55,000 in compensatory damages (past medical expenses) and no punitive damages on remaining claim despite plaintiff’s request for $85 million*Served as co-lead trial counsel in a case involving a diabetes drug in West Virginia, securing a defense verdict on three of four claims; jury awarded only $155,000 in compensatory damages and no punitive damages on remaining claim *Served as co-lead trial counsel in the first bellwether case involving a diabetes drug in Chicago, obtaining a defense verdict in less than two hours following a trial lasting longer than three weeks in which plaintiff requested over $10 million in damages *Successfully argued appeal to Seventh Circuit (Judge Posner presiding) on behalf of a major pharmaceutical company with regard to removal and fraudulent joinder DISCLAIMER: Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Listed skills include Product Liability, Litigation, Trials, Class Actions, and 6 others.