Thompson Hine LLP

Product Liability Litigation

Kip is the partner in charge of the Cleveland office and a litigation partner who focuses on the defense of product liability and business claims.

His business litigation practice includes the defense of putative class actions, commercial claims, consumer claims, intellectual property claims (litigation counsel, working with patent counsel), and other state and federal causes of action. Kip also serves as a court-appointed special master in federal litigation.

In the product liability area, he represents corporations in the defense of putative class actions, personal injury claims, mass torts, toxic torts, consumer claims, and warranty claims. Kip defends manufacturers of heavy industrial and consumer products from wrongful death claims and claims involving serious economic and physical damages.

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1995, articles editor, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy New York University, B.A., 1992, cum laude