In an article published on June 16 in The American Lawyer, Mark Jones offered insight on the growing demand for high-stakes products liability litigation, highlighting how firms like Nelson Mullins have strategically expanded their trial teams to meet the surge in complex, high-value disputes. The article explored how the pandemic-era slowdown gave way to renewed litigation momentum, prompting top firms to invest in deep benches and sophisticated legal strategies.  

“While we already had probably over 150 product liability litigators at the time, we knew during COVID that litigators were underappreciated at a lot of law firms, but they were going to be needed when those courts opened back up,” Jones explained. “Some firms were just underappreciating their top lawyers in the product liability space, and we never lost sight of the fact that those lawyers were going to be needed and needed in abundance when things broke.” 

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