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Joanne Gray
Position
Partner / Global Chair Litigation Department
Career
Joanne Gray is chair of Goodwin’s Litigation department and co-chair of its Food and Healthy Living practice. In addition, Joanne serves on the firm’s Management Committee and its Executive Committee. Joanne’s industry-focused practice concentrates in the consumer and B2B products area, including FDA regulated companies in the food and beverage, dietary supplement, pharmaceutical and medical device, and technology industries. She provides compliance advice and handles litigation for clients in these highly regulated industries. Her litigation practice involves defending companies in high profile products liability, class actions, consumer fraud and mass tort claims. This includes defending companies in consumer and occupational exposure cases including cases where chemical, particulates or other exposures are claimed to have caused personal injury, including cancer.
In the compliance area, Joanne’s counseling practice involves providing regulatory advice, mergers and acquisition advice and litigation avoidance counseling to companies in FDA and FTC regulated industries. She counsels clients on regulatory compliance and provides risk management and strategic advice to a wide range of consumer, food, supplement and B2B companies, including in the fast growing and rapidly changing healthy living section of the industry. Joanne is involved in counseling and strategic planning for food, dietary supplements and consumer product launches as well as product recalls, and provides advice on company or product lines acquisitions. She often works with food and supplement companies by providing strategic business and regulatory advice regarding products that incorporate new and evolving technologies or novel ingredients, including providing GMP and audit advice that allows leading companies to develop innovative new products while reducing regulatory risk. Her counseling practice includes public relations and crisis management counseling for these industries.
Education
JD, 1983, Fordham University School of Law / BA, 1980, College of the Holy Cross
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
(Hall of Fame)With tech and life sciences two of the core pillars of the firm’s industry focus, Goodwin is skilled at assisting clients within those sectors in the defense of product liability and mass tort claims brought against them in courts throughout the country. In this context, the team, which includes many members with advanced degrees in sciences, is particularly effective at developing expert witnesses and at explaining complex technical and scientific ideas to juries. New York-based partner Joanne Gray has a core focus on advising FDA-regulated food and beverage companies, including vitamins and supplements producers, across the spectrum of their advisory, regulatory and litigations needs; she co-heads the firm’s food practice which has ‘unparalleled experience, contacts and expertise’ in the field. As part of his wide-ranging litigation offering, Boston-based team head Richard Oetheimer regularly handles product liability and mass tort litigation on behalf of pharma companies, as well as manufacturers of foods and dietary supplements, cosmetics and consumer products.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame United States > Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco) United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)