The Tucker Ellis Medical & Pharmaceutical Liability Group represents and counsels clients in the local, regional, and national defense of medical device and pharmaceutical liability cases. Our exceptional lawyers, paralegals, and nurse paralegals work at the forefront of science and medicine with nationally known experts to defend litigation and assist our clients with regulatory matters, such as developing appropriate warnings and evaluating pharmacovigilance practices. Our scope of clients, our national leadership roles for those clients in headline litigation, and our exceptional trial attorneys make ours an outstanding practice.
We routinely litigate cases throughout the United States, and have tried to verdict cases for our clients in dozens of states. We serve as national coordinating counsel as well as regional and local counsel on behalf of our clients. Experienced in multidistrict litigation, we serve as liaison defense counsel in numerous state MDLs, including California-coordinated proceedings, in the defense of large groups of cases. Our team also assists foreign lawyers in the defense of cases and class actions filed outside the United States.
We have obtained significant appellate and trial court decisions limiting the liability of our clients, particularly in obtaining broad-based decisions in the preemption and Daubert areas, and obtained a major victory for a client in the United States Supreme Court.
Ranked at the Nationwide level in Chambers USA 2019 in the area of Product Liability & Mass Torts, clients comment, "They take a hands-on approach, can build good working relationships with opposing counsel and do a very effective job managing local counsel as well." Another source comments, "I think extremely highly of them - they're smart, and are great trial lawyers. They have a creative approach to everything they do."
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Our Team:
- Routinely tries cases across the United States
- Coordinates and supervises the defense of major medical device and pharmaceutical companies on a national and regional basis
- Has extensive MDL experience as lead defense counsel
- Represents manufacturers and distributors in product recalls
- Selects and develops technical experts and coordinates scientific studies
- Has significant experience in Medicare reporting and compliance
- Has successfully challenged plaintiffs’ experts on “junk science” grounds