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Tripp Haston

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Tripp Haston chairs Bradley’s Life Sciences Litigation team and chairs Bradley’s Litigation team’s Client Engagement & Advancement efforts. He represents a broad spectrum of clients on regional, national and international engagements.  He has been recognized nationally and internationally for his Life Sciences and Products Liability experience in numerous leading attorney directories, including The Best Lawyers in America®Chambers USABenchmark Litigation, and The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers. Tripp has served numerous clients as national trial and coordinating counsel and as a national team member in individual actions, as well as in mass tort and multidistrict litigation. His experience has involved matters throughout the United States as well as matters in Canada, Europe, Asia and South America.

Tripp is also active in the leadership of several legal and civil justice organizations. He is the past president of the International Association of Defense Counsel, an invitation-only, peer-reviewed organization of approximately 2,500 attorneys from more than 50 countries around the world. He has served as a member of DRI’s Board of Directors, the nation’s largest organization of defense counsel, as well as on the Board of Directors of Lawyers for Civil Justice, an organization comprised of leading corporate counsel and defense bar practitioners dedicated to promoting fairness in the U.S. civil justice system. He is the past chair of the Alabama State Bar’s Leadership Forum and the past president of the Young Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association. Finally, he is active in service to the United Way of Central Alabama and has served as an officer and board member of his community’s charitable foundation for its public schools.

Experience

  • United States of America ex rel. Kasowitz, Benson & Torres v. BASF Corporation, et al., Case No. 1:16-CV-02269-RMC, U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia: Lead counsel for defendant Covestro LLC (formerly Bayer MaterialScience) in defense of “reverse” False Claims Act case alleging four companies failed to report substantial risk information to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. On October 23, 2017, the district court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss all claims.
  • United States of America ex. rel. SMSF, LLC v. Biogen, Inc., inVentiv Health, Inc., et al., United States District Court of Massachusetts: Lead counsel for inVentiv Health, Inc., in this novel False Claims Act/AKS action against a major biopharmaceutical company and two contract research organizations.
  • In re: Xarelto Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2592 (USDC E.D. LA 2015): National team member for Bayer.
  • In re: Chantix Products Liability Litigation (N.D. Ala. 2012): Co-lead Counsel for Pfizer Inc.
  • Served as Clerk to Honorable Emmett R. Cox, 1993-1994, United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit

Education

  • University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 1993, summa cum laude; Alabama Law Review; Order of the Coif
  • Auburn University, B.A., 1990, Mortar Board; Omicron Delta Kappa; Spades