Robert C. Tucker

Robert Tucker is a Partner in the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis & West LLP. Bob is a trial lawyer who specializes in products liability and medical malpractice cases, with an emphasis on the defense of pharmaceutical companies, physicians and hospitals, and manufacturers of consumer products.

Over the past thirty-five years, he has defended thousands of cases brought against pharmaceutical companies in the State of Ohio and in a dozen other States. He is trial counsel throughout the Midwest for manufacturers of various products, drugs and devices, and he has tried cases to verdict in Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, as well as in courts throughout Ohio. In addition to the cases he has tried, he has been the national coordinating counsel for the defense of product liability and toxic tort cases brought in State and Federal courts throughout the United States. He has managed thousands of cases in Multi-District Litigation and has served as MDL Counsel in In re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation and in In re Ortho Evra Products Liability Litigation. He has been admitted to try lawsuits in more than two dozen different State and Federal courts.

Bob has lectured on the defense of medical malpractice claims and has conducted seminars for attorneys defending product liability, pharmaceutical liability, and toxic tort claims.

Best Lawyers in America named Bob Tucker the Cleveland "Lawyer of the Year" for 2011 in the area of  Medical Malpractice.

"Mr. Tucker is a terrific product liability lawyer who specialized in the defense of pharmaceutical companies, physicians and hospitals." -- Chambers USA, 2010 

"Bob Tucker garners huge respect across the market." -- Legal 500, U.S.     

Civic & Professional Involvement

American College of Trial Lawyers 
      Fellow
International Association of Defense Counsel
Defense Research Institute 
Cleveland Association of Civil Trial Attorneys
Celebrezze Inns of Court

Awards & Professional Recognition

Ohio Super Lawyer® (2010-2011)
International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers (2010)
International Who’s Who of Life Science lawyers (2010)
Best Lawyers in America® (2010-2011)
     2011 Cleveland Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year
 

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