Butler Snow LLP

Pamela is a member of our Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Group and Products, Catastrophic and Industrial Litigation Group. She focuses her practice on Product Liability, Pharmaceutical & Medical Device, Insurance, and Commercial Litigation. She has represented clients in state and federal court on a broad range of complex civil litigation, including medical device and product liability litigation, commercial litigation, extra-contractual litigation, premises liability, personal injury, and insurance coverage. She has experience in all phases of complex litigation, including trials, in both state and federal court.

Pamela’s experience includes all phases of complex litigation, including trials, in both state and federal court. She is Co-National Counsel on the ParaGard MDL which includes management of the 2000+ pending cases. Pamela served on the trial team that obtained a complete defense victory after a 10-day jury trial in September 2022. Freeman v. Ethicon Inc., Case No. 2:20-cv-10661-CBM-SKA, U.S.D.C. (C.D. Calif.).

Pamela served as counsel for a long-term care facility where she successfully argued a motion for partial summary judgment on Plaintiff’s claims against a long-term care facility for assault, battery, res ipsa loquitur, medical malpractice, corporate negligence, administrative and corporate medical malpractice, negligent retention, and punitive damages.  At trial, she argued countless pre-trial motions and was second chair on the trial team on the remaining claim. She handled multiple witnesses, including Defendant’s key medical expert. After the jury returned deadlocked, the case settled for a nominal sum before the second trial commenced.  Marks v. Maple LTC Group, LLC, Onslow County Superior Court (2018).

Pamela has served as counsel for a highway products manufacturer in litigation in Georgia. She obtained summary judgment in a product liability case on Plaintiff’s claims for defective design, defective manufacturing, and failure to warn based on 10-year statute of repose, no duty to warn of an unknown defect, no duty to warn the general public, and no duty to warn sophisticated users (GDOT). Thomas v. Trinity Industries, Inc., et al., United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2020). She also served as counsel for a highway products manufacturer in a product liability lawsuit pending in Georgia and obtained summary judgment on Plaintiff’s claims for defective design, defective manufacturing, and failure to warn. Davis v. Trinity Industries, Inc., et al., Fulton County State Court (Georgia 2018).

She also has extensive experience serving as a member of the team defending Johnson & Johnson in the pelvic mesh litigation, and she is a member of the team defending the remand cases from the MDL. She handled innumerable depositions of plaintiffs, fact witnesses, treating physicians, and experts during the MDL. Since the MDL closed, she has acted as a state manager for cases pending across the country, is on the trial support team, investigated and analyzed individual claims, deposed many plaintiffs and experts, developed strategic discovery methods to help resolve claims and prepare cases for trial.

She is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee where she engages in pro bono work for Atlanta Volunteer Lawyer’s Foundation as well as empowerHER, a nonprofit organization that mentors young women who have lost mothers. She also frequently authors blogs for Butler Snow’s COVID-19 and Product Lines Blogs.

Her experience also includes a brief secondment (2021-2022) for a Fortune 500 company to assist in the management of litigation pending across the country.

She obtained her J.D., summa cum laude, from Elon University and her B.A. from the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. Following law school, she clerked with the Honorable Judge James L. Gale in North Carolina Business Court. She is admitted to practice in Georgia and North Carolina.