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.

Noteworthy

• Victory for Steptoe on Mobile-Phone Rulings

Select News & Events

• Triple Play for Steptoe's Appellate Practice
• Appellate Victory in Oral Polio Vaccine Case
• Cynthia Pevehouse Joins Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington, DC
• Roger Yoerges Joins Steptoe as Partner in Washington Office
• Roger Yoerges to Speak at American Conference Institute's National Advanced Forum on Managing and Resolving Mass Tort Products Liability Claims
• Don't Get Burned: Hot Topics for a New Year - What Will Impact Products Defense in 2010?
• Risk Assessment Webinar

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Publications

• 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
  November 2006, The Practical Litigator