Alex Calfo
Partner at King & Spalding, Calfo serves as lead trial lawyer, both as regional and national counsel, for several Fortune 100 companies in multi-district litigation and statewide coordinated proceedings. With multiple awards and accolades to his name, Calfo is considered one of Los Angeles’s top trial lawyers. His successful verdicts have been featured on the […]
Renee Smith
Renee Smith is a Chambers-ranked litigation partner who represents clients facing high-profile complex products liability, class action and commercial litigation. She has secured trial defense verdicts and other wins for 3M, Abbott Labs, AbbVie Inc., Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Dow Chemical, W.R. Grace, General Motors LLC, Juul Labs, Inc., Kobe Steel, Ltd. and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Renee has […]
John Beisner
John Beisner is the leader of Skadden’s Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation Group. He focuses on the defense of purported class actions, mass tort matters and other complex civil litigation in both federal and state courts. Mr. Beisner regularly handles appellate litigations and has appeared in matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Over the past […]
Lee Popkin
Lee Popkin is a trial lawyer in Proskauer’s Litigation Department and co-head of the firm’s Product Liability Group. Lee represents clients in a wide range of industries in high-stakes trials in state and federal courts throughout the country. Lee’s experience includes developing case themes, examining expert and fact witnesses at trial, preparing key witnesses for […]
Marcella Ducca
Marcella Ducca is Co-Chair of the Atlanta Products Liability Litigation Group and a shareholder at the firm. Marcella focuses her practice on the representation and defense of manufacturers in products liability litigation, with an emphasis on pharmaceutical, medical device, and health care litigation. She litigates a variety of complex matters in both state and federal […]
Joe Petrosinelli
Joe Petrosinelli is the Chairman of Williams & Connolly and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He is also Co-Chair of the firm’s Products Liability practice group. Joe has tried numerous civil and criminal cases in federal and state courts, has been lead counsel in several significant U.S. and international arbitrations, and has represented […]
Susan Gutierrez
Susan L. Gutierrez is a partner in the Litigation Department and co-head of the firm’s Product Liability Group. As a commercial litigator and trial attorney, Susan specializes in high-stakes matters and complex disputes across industries. She has tried multiple high-profile cases to verdict in state and federal courts throughout the country. Susan also has significant […]
Sara Thompson
Sara K. Thompson is Chair of the firm’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice. She concentrates her practice on defense of products liability litigation, with an emphasis on representing manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and other consumer products in state and federal courts nationwide. Liability Defended medical device manufacturers: products & sales rep […]
Kaspar Stoffelmayr
Kaspar Stoffelmayr is a litigator and trial lawyer at Bartlit Beck in Chicago. He has extensive background in mass tort, product liability, and class action defense, as well as in prosecuting and defending commercial disputes. In addition to successful courtroom advocacy, his experience includes the development of creative litigation and resolution strategies, the efficient management […]
Heidi Levine
Heidi Levine is a global co-leader of the Product Liability and Mass Torts practice, member of Sidley Austin’s Executive Committee, serves on Sidley’s Global Life Sciences Leadership Council, and is a firmwide co-chair of the firm’s women’s initiative. She has defended companies in a wide variety of product liability and mass tort litigation involving pharmaceutical […]