Charles Q. Socha

Charles Socha is a Partner in the Denver office of Tucker Ellis & West LLP. His litigation experience consists of products liability, including medical device and drug liability, toxic torts, and complex, multi-district litigation. Chuck's practice also includes regulatory issues under the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act. He has tried cases to verdict in Colorado, California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Chuck has handled cases involved in mass tort litigation in all 50 states. Many of these cases raised complex medical, scientific, and other technical issues and presented significant punitive damages exposure.

Often, Chuck has served as either national or regional counsel for national manufacturers involved in multi-district, mass tort litigation, or as the science lawyer on the defense team. In that capacity, his focus has been development of the defense's expert case and attacking the opposition's expert case.

Civic & Professional Involvement

Denver Bar Association
Defense Research Institute
Colorado Defense Lawyers Association
International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC Trial Academy Member, 2001)
Products Liability Advisory Counsel

Publications & Speaking Engagements

Impact of Tort Reform on Product Liability Litigation in Colorado, The Colorado Lawyer, November 2001, at 91.

Punitive Damages: Excluding Financial Evidence in the Product Liability Case, For the Defense, February 2000, at 18.

All Journal Articles are Not Created Equal: Guidelines for Evaluating Medical Literature, Defense Counsel Journal, January 2000, at 61.

Defending on Causation: Strategies for Dealing with Opposing Experts, Medical Literature & Company Documents, Drug & Medical Device Litigation: Defense Perspectives, 1993, at 9.

Evidentiary Issues in Drug & Medical Device Cases, Products Liability Pharmaceutical Drug Cases 431, (Donald E. Vincent and Alexander H. Slaughter eds. 1989 & Supp. 1991).

Reducing Physician Exposure to Litigation from the Use of Intrauterine Contraception, Infectious and Medical Disease Letters for Obstetrics & Gynecology, July-September 1989, at 91.

Excluding Plaintiff's Expert Testimony, For the Defense, September 1987, at 24.

Some of the foregoing publications were co-authored with colleagues.

Chuck has made various presentations at regional and national continuing legal education seminars for trial counsel.

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