Angela Agrusa > DLA Piper LLP (US) > Los Angeles (Century City), United States > Lawyer Profile

Forming a key part of the firm’s ‘best-in-class product liability and mass tort practice’, DLA Piper LLP (US) regularly achieves ‘exceptional results’ for consumer product manufacturers in business critical, high-stakes litigation. The team, which has expertise on both sides of the coast and is also able to mobilize international resources, should the need arise, is best-known for its success in fending off mass tort and class action claims before the trial stage, through the use, for example, of effective Daubert strategies. A number of the firm’s most significant matters arise within the food and beverages space, an area that the team is well-placed to represent clients across the gamut of compliance, regulatory and litigation matters as a result of core industry understanding, litigation prowess and overarching regulatory expertise. Los Angeles-based litigator Angela Agrusa  is particularly accomplished in this area and is currently forming part of multi-pronged defense effort for one the defendants in putative class action and product liability suits filed around the country relating to the alleged existence of heavy metals in baby food. Atlanta-based Christopher Campbell heads up the overarching product liability and mass tort offering and is best-known for his work within the life sciences and healthcare field.

Housed within the firm’s broad-based overarching product liability and mass torts group, which is led out of Atlanta by Christopher Campbell , DLA Piper LLP (US) has a strong and increasingly active presence throughout the country across a range of toxic tort matters. The firm has been at the vanguard of market trends in the space and has consequently picked up some key instructions in relation to many issues, including as it relates to toxic forever chemicals and climate change-related suits. San Francisco-based partner George Gigounas has been at the forefront of many of these environmental disputes, including his work alongside Los Angeles-based Angela Agrusa for a food and beverage manufacturer in litigation brought by a non-profit environmental advocacy group attempting to hold manufacturers responsible for plastic pollution in the California beaches and waterways.

DLA Piper LLP (US) offers a diverse and geographically broad team, which is especially adept in handling class action lawsuits, privacy disputes relating to cutting-edge technologies, violations of contract and business disagreements, with many of the firm’s key litigators offering expertise in areas such as antitrust law, product liability, and white-collar crime. Recent notable work includes defense of Walmart in a Covid-related dispute. Angela Agrusa , a seasoned litigator based in Los Angeles, co-heads the practice with John Hamill based in Chicago. Other highly regarded litigators include Isabelle Ord in San Francisco, Keara Gordon in New York and Christopher Young KC in San Diego.