We help our clients navigate the challenges facing defendants in asbestos litigation 

• Fact investigation and development
• Understanding legal theories, scientific issues, and medical questions unique to asbestos litigation
• Focus on recognizing and understanding the constantly evolving trends and strategies being utilized by plaintiffs
• Three-hundred and sixty degree analysis of each claim’s potential exposure
• Strategic recommendations tailored to each defendant’s specific facts and circumstances
• Vigorous defense of claims

Our clients are manufacturers and businesses who need our experience and help navigating asbestos liability claims 

Our clients include

• Manufacturers of a wide variety of product types
• Product suppliers and vendors
• Component part manufacturers
• Premises owners
• Contractors

Our Asbestos Team has been defending asbestos clients for over 35 years 

• National trial counsel
  • Handle all aspects of trial preparation
  • Lead trial counsel obtaining defense verdicts in jurisdictions with historically active asbestos dockets
• National coordinating counsel for product manufacturers and premises owners
  • Investigate and understand the product or premises at issue
  • Develop defense strategies for handling of nationwide docket
  • Communicate effectively and consistently with clients and co-counsel
  • Train local counsel on topics such as product knowledge, taking depositions, and understanding national strategies
  • Manage cost-effective coverage of depositions in various states throughout the country by counsel who are well-versed in the client’s defense strategies
  • Coordinate consistent discovery responses across multiple jurisdictions
  • Recognize value of early case resolution where appropriate
  • Negotiate outcomes with plaintiff’s firms in multiple jurisdictions across the United States
  • Identify opportunities for dismissals or resolution through motion practice

Our lawyers are creative problem solvers and experienced litigators

Our services assist you in making strategic, timely, and informed decisions

• Counseling to prevent litigation before it arises where possible
• Identifying opportunities for early resolution
• Thoroughly investigating and analyzing facts and potential liability
• Identifying and hiring experts who give valuable advice and can serve as litigation witnesses
• Investigating and examining opposing experts
• Preparing witnesses for and defending depositions of corporate, executive, and managerial witnesses and conducting depositions of adverse and non-party witnesses
• Providing in-depth analysis of medical causation
• Providing strategic litigation plans and budgets to "right size" the defense of your matters
• Providing experienced counsel and analysis on valuation of cases for settlement
• Getting you ready for litigation
• Defending clients through discovery, settlement negotiations, alternative dispute resolution, and—when necessary—trial and appeal

Following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

• For years, lawyers from the Firm, either as lead counsel or co-counsel, have tried asbestos personal injury cases to verdict in states throughout the country
• We have obtained defense verdicts for product manufacturer clients in living mesothelioma cases
• We have obtained defense verdicts for product manufacturer clients in deceased mesothelioma cases