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Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP > The Legal 500 Rankings

Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices Tier 1

The ‘extremely responsive’ team at litigation boutique Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP provides an ‘excellent work product’ to pharmaceuticals companies in the defense of high-profile product liability cases throughout the country. Noted for its ability to handle highly technical and scientific issues, the firm excels in dealing with expert witnesses. The firm’s depth and quality of trial lawyers ensures that it also regularly engaged on the eve of bellwether trials or towards the end of the discovery phase. Team head Tarek Ismail is ‘hands down one of the top trial lawyers in the country’, with a track recording featuring successes over the years for high-profile life sciences companies including Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie and Merck in bet-the-company cases. Shayna Cook is also rated as a ‘fantastic trial lawyer’, skilled at leading high-stakes MDL as as well as handling trials. In Dallas, Joe Tomaselli focuses on developing and implementing winning scientific theories of the case, where his ‘ability to learn just about any topic and shepherd the scientific aspect of the case through the litigation process is second to none’. Based out Santa Monica, Ken Baum  is also ‘extraordinarily good with expert witnesses’, with his persuasive depositions often paving the way for MDL-ending Daubert rulings. Of the more junior partners Jennifer Greenblatt continues to impress, regularly securing victories for clients at a dispositive motion stage, while the ‘incredibly bright and skilled’ Allyson Julian and Emma Ross , who is ‘extraordinarily good with expert witnesses’, are also key up-and-coming names. All named practitioners are Chicago based unless otherwise noted.

Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes Tier 4

Chicago-based boutique litigation firm Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP is retained by numerous Fortune 500 and multinational corporates, in handling business-to-business disputes, as well as a wide range of legal cases including product liability, mass torts, class actions, antitrust, and intellectual property. Recent notable work includes their representation of Apple and 3M. Tarek Ismail leads with extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Shayna Cook is knowledgeable in product liability cases, while Alan Littman specializes in intellectual property proceedings.

Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers Tier 4

Tarek Ismail – Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP. Founding partner and leader of the firm’s litigation practice, Tarek Ismail is highly respected for his skill leading on complex commercial cases for major corporations, especially in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. In complex litigation which involved tens of thousands of cases nationwide, Ismail acted as trial counsel for Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon in the transvaginal-mesh products liability litigation, eventually achieving a summary judgment in favor of Ethicon affirmed on appeal in June 2022. Ismail is based in Chicago.