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For more than 50 years, we have been meeting and beating the litigation threat posed to pharmaceutical and medical device companies by the plaintiffs’ bar. We have served as national or regional coordinating counsel in high-profile litigation for several of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and have achieved significant victories on their behalf.

Products we have defended include antibiotics, Avandia, Bendectin, Diethylstilbestrol (DES), Coumadin, Prozac, Thorotrast, Thorazine, Valium, Versed, Zomax, Zyprexa, many of the oral contraceptive products and a host of other pharmaceuticals. In the vaccine field, we have defended litigation involving various vaccines, including flu, poliomyelitis and the childhood vaccines against Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (DTP). Our medical device experience includes cranial drills, cardiac pacemakers, intrauterine devices, intraocular lenses, bone screws and other surgical implants. We also defend product liability claims involving investigational and experimental drugs, including gene therapies.

We have the skills and experience to defend clients in multiple jurisdictions across the country and in the parallel proceedings common to today’s pharmaceutical litigation - the “perfect storm” of product liability litigation, third-party payor claims, federal and state government investigations and criminal and civil litigation; whistleblower claims; public relations issues; FDA action; congressional inquiry, shareholder litigation, Lanham Act claims, and more. We understand the cumulative effects these events have on customers, investors and employees and the dire threat they pose to the continued success of our clients. Our team, more than 80 lawyers strong, have devoted their careers to defending pharmaceutical and device manufacturers.