Products Liability, Pharmaceutical & Mass Tort Litigation

Steptoe & Johnson LLP boasts one of the premier products liability, pharmaceutical and mass tort litigation defense practices in the United States. Aggressively defending major chemical, petroleum, insurance company, and other clients in these large-scale litigations, our attorneys are particularly adept at reducing complex, technical issues to understandable concepts supported by compelling scientific and medical evidence.

Our lawyers are also highly skilled at defending class action claims and conducting liability and pharmaceutical litigation and multiparty litigation, as well as defending single-plaintiff, single-defendant cases. Our experience includes brokering advantageous large inventory settlements involving multiple plaintiffs' counsel and claims from several jurisdictions.

Representative Matters

We currently serve as national coordinating counsel for a large company in connection with a portfolio of almost 50,000 active product liability suits pending in state and federal courts in all 50 states, developing and implementing effective litigation strategies sensitive to the special need for consistency with the enormous volume of litigation across jurisdictions, cases, and plaintiff lawyer adversaries.

Select News & Events

• Law360 Quotes Steptoe’s Quinn-Barabanov on Products Liability Cases to Watch in 2012
• Law360 Quotes Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov on 2010 Product Liability Rulings
• Appellate Victory in Oral Polio Vaccine Case
• Roger Yoerges Joins Steptoe as Partner in Washington Office
• "Don’t Give Up on a Lost Cause: Defeating Novel Theories of Causation in Toxic Tort Cases," DRI’s Product Liability Conference
• "Environmental Toxic Injury Claims: Bringing or Defending Against Environmental Personal Injury Actions," Strafford Publication’s Webinar
• Fracking Under Pressure: Crucial Litigation Tactics You Need to Know, National Constitution Center Conference
• “Examining a Fracking Contamination Case or Injury," HB Litigation’s Gas Drilling Operations Conference

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Publications

• Avoiding A Fracking Mess
  September 7, 2011, Law360
• Ruling Removes FDA Safety Net
  May 2009, Global Reinsurance
• Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Certification Requirements
  November 17, 2008
• Maintaining Healthy Relationships With Co-Counsel In Complex Tort Litigation
  The Practical Litigator