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Goodwin
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620 EIGHTH AVENUE
NEW YORK NY 10018
NEW YORK
United States
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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)

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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.