Nicholas V. Janizeh

• Member of national counsel team for manufacturer of prescription diabetes medication in multi-district litigation; involved in MDL formation, briefing before JPML and MDL courts, case work-up (specifically, developing product and company story and themes), company witness preparation, expert identification, and discovery disputes
• Successfully opposed Daubert challenge and secured favorable ruling to keep in general-causation expert testimony in multi-district products liability litigation involving implantable medical device
• Successfully opposed motion to compel discovery regarding recall of surgical stapler used during plaintiff’s lung transplant surgery
• Assisted trial team with first California talcum powder case wherein plaintiff alleged defendant’s talc-based products caused ovarian cancer; after trial, the Court entered judgment notwithstanding the jury verdict for defendant and, in the alternative, granted defendant’s motion for a new trial

Speaking Engagements

• "If You Build It, Plaintiffs Will Come: A Guide to Weeding Out Unmeritorious Claims from Mass Coordinated Product Liability Proceedings," DRI's Class Actions and Multi-Party Litigation Specialized Litigation Group webinar (November 2017)

Publications

• "Punitive Damages - Which State's Law Applies?", DRI's For The Defense (September 2018)
• "Innovator Liability: A Pandora's Box for Pharma Cos.?", Law360 (April 2018)
• "Putting the 'Specific' Back in Specific Jurisdiction: The Importance of Claim-by-Claim Jurisdictional Analysis in a Post-BMS Landscape," Drug & Device Law Blog (January 2018)
• "Trejo v. Johnson & Johnson: The Death of Design Defect in California?", DRI's The Voice (August 2017)
• "If You Build It, Plaintiffs Will Come: A Guide to Weeding Out Unmeritorious Claims in Mass Coordinated Product Liability Proceedings," DRI’s RX for the Defense (June 2017)

• American Bar Association

• Determining Who Is Exempt from California's Stay-at-Home Order: State Public Health Officer Publishes Guidance on Which Employees Are "Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers"
  March 24, 2020
• Tucker Ellis Hosts Job Shadow Day in Los Angeles
  December 2018