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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (October 5, 2022) -- Another experienced team of litigators has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, further expanding the firm’s nationally ranked product liability practice. The all-women team consists of two partners and one of counsel. Tiffany Alexander, Heather Russell Fine, and Elyse Cohen join the firm from Tanenbaum Keale LLP. They are based in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“We have seen strong growth in our litigation practice in the last year,” said firm Managing Partner Jim Lehman. “With these attorneys we are continuing our investment in our product liability practice, and we are pleased to welcome this team, which adds to our already deep trial bench. These attorneys bring additional diversity and a wealth of seasoned knowledge to our firm.”

“We are very excited to join such a prestigious firm with an outstanding reputation for product liability,” said Tiffany Alexander. “We look forward to helping the firm with both work in the Philadelphia courts and across the nation.  Our clients will benefit from the platform offered at Nelson Mullins.”

With the addition of these new attorneys, Nelson Mullins’ overall product liability practice includes more than 160 lawyers that currently serve as national, regional, and local counsel for numerous companies in various industries across the United States. The three new attorneys will focus their practice on pharmaceutical and medical device liability, consumer and mechanical liability, automotive liability, and motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors.

Benchmark Litigation named Nelson Mullins Law Firm of the Year for Product Liability in 2020 and 2021. Legal 500 recognized the firm in 2021 for Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort, and Class Action Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices. In 2021, Chambers USA recognized the firm nationally for Transportation: Road (Automotive) as well as naming the firm nationally to Product Liability: The Elite.

“I’m so proud that we have such a profound first-chair trial bench as well as a diverse overall litigation team,” said Mike Brown, a well-known trial litigator and the firm’s Chief Diversity Officer. “With their extensive experience, these attorneys add further experience to our national product liability practice and bolster our resources in the Philadelphia market where we try a number of cases. We look forward to their success at Nelson Mullins. We continue to invest in teams like this with strong synergies to our existing practice in response to the expanding needs of our clients.”

Tiffany Alexander. Alexander practices in the areas of product liability, personal injury, and complex civil litigation on behalf of corporate clients and product manufacturers. She serves as national and trial counsel for a leading automotive manufacturer and handles a variety of product design and negligence matters for a variety of product manufacturers throughout the country. She has successfully tried and litigated numerous catastrophic injury cases in which a wide variety of products were alleged to have been defectively or negligently designed, including automobiles, forklifts, motorcycles, farming equipment, and consumer products.

Heather Russell Fine. Fine concentrates her practice on complex products liability and mass tort defense with a particular focus on representing automotive manufacturers, heavy construction equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and regional product manufacturers on a local, national, and international level. She handles all aspects of complex products liability cases from inception to verdict and appeal. She has successfully defended clients across the country from Maine to Alaska for cases ranging from arbitration-level breach of warranty issues to complex trial matters involving claims of catastrophic personal injury based on allegations of product defect.

Elyse Cohen. Cohen defends individuals, partnerships, corporations, and insurance carriers in civil litigation matters, concentrating her practice on products liability, construction defect, catastrophic personal injury, and motor vehicle accident claims. She has an extensive understanding of the discovery process, significant experience with pretrial and motion practice, and alternative dispute resolution methods.

Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins is an Am Law 100 firm of more than 930 attorneys and government relations professionals with 31 offices in 14 states and Washington, D.C. For more information on the firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com.