Valerie Folsom Email & Phone Number

Valerie practices products liability and commercial litigation. She has defended Tyco Fire & Security companies, Lockheed Martin, Cerner, The Williams Companies, and other national and international companies. In addition, Valerie focuses part of her practice on e-discovery.Her skill set includes:-second chairing a trial; -preparing and presenting presentations to mock juries; -drafting and arguing summary judgment motions; -interviewing fact and expert witnesses; -preparing fact and expert witnesses for their depositions; -taking and defending fact and expert witness depositions; -drafting and responding to written discovery and coordinating large-scale electronic document productions; -preparing pre-trial filings like motions in limine, jury charges, trial briefs, deposition designations, witness lists, and exhibit lists; -presenting case strategies and themes to clients and insurance companies; -preparing mediation statements and presentations; -settling cases and preparing settlement documents; -coordinating joint-defense strategy with co-counsel and local counsel; preparing budgets.Some of Valerie's cases of note include representing:-SimplexGrinnell LP in successfully resolving 22 lawsuits arising from a fire at the Cook County Administration Building that took 6 lives and injured many others; ADT Security Services in obtaining summary judgments based on limitation of liability, no duty, the economic loss doctrine; -Ansul, Inc. in products liability disputes where she attended fire site and evidence inspections for kitchen hood systems; -The Williams Companies in securities and ERISA litigation by coordinating electronic document production; -an international company in a commercial dispute by interviewing employees in Mexico City; -Lockheed Martin in the silica MDL pending before Judge Christopher.