Manage

Successful defense in pharmaceutical litigation takes more than good trial skills. In addition to excellent lawyering and a thorough understanding of the science and medicine behind the products at issue, today’s pharmaceutical defense teams need to manage the massive organizational tasks needed to win, such as document review and production, e-discovery, witness preparation and a host of other needs.

With over half a century of representing leading pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, we have the background to delve deeply into the science and medicine at issue, and work with company scientists and physicians in a wide array of therapeutic areas. Our experience as national counsel in high-profile mass tort cases has allowed us to develop cost-effective, state-of-the-art approaches to these critical components of large litigation matters. We help clients meet their obligations to preserve and produce electronic materials and defend against plaintiffs’ efforts to take intrusive discovery. Using a variety of staffing models - each managed to Six Sigma specifications - Pepper ensures delivery of document review and document production services at a dramatic cost savings, without sacrificing the quality demanded by the litigation. Pepper seamlessly integrates witness preparation teams with our document review teams, allowing both teams to continue to respond to the shifting demands of the litigation.

We understand the critical importance of case control, and we have developed customized software and database applications to manage pleadings, correspondence, records, and docketing in the thousands of cases and claims that arise in today’s pharmaceutical litigation. We make extensive use of intranet and extranet services, along with e-discovery and e-pleading rooms, to enhance communication between clients and our team. Our extensive file management system also allows clients easy and secure access to documents related to their matters, as well as to model forms, pleadings and other documents gleaned from our experience with other clients.