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John Martin

John Martin

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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

United States • Dispute resolution

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E-discovery

The e-discovery practice at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP covers a host of issues including data breaches, trade secrets and antitrust investigations for a focused client base in the pharmaceutical, automotive and technology industries. A team of four led the team from South Carolina. John Martin has experience handling multi-district litigation and assists clients with issues of information management and cybersecurity. Lucie Cohen serves as discovery counsel for high-end clients across industries. Heyward Bonyata  has vast experience as a litigator, developing and negotiating both offensive and defensive discovery strategies for clients. Julie Flaming specialises in pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, product liability and business litigation, often involving technology in discovery processes. Travis Bustamante provides support from Charlotte, focusing on data breach response efforts and information governance. Jarrett Coco , also based in South Carolina, is another key contact,.
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Phone
803.255.9421
Email
[email protected]
Profile
nelsonmullins.com

Profile

Position

Partner

Career

John is a litigation partner whose practice focuses on the interplay of high stakes litigation, electronic discovery, information management, and cybersecurity. He is a leader of the Nelson Mullins Electronic Discovery and Information Management practice group, Nelson Mullins Encompass. John's clients routinely face the challenge of having to collect and produce massive volumes of highly sensitive information in response to litigation, government investigations, and other matters. Clients turn to John and the Nelson Mullins Encompass team to manage the scope of these obligations, identify and mitigate risks, minimize business disruption, and to implement creative solutions to challenging and often disruptive discovery burdens.

Languages
English
Memberships

Memberships:

  • South Carolina Bar

  • DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar

  • Member, Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, Sedona Conference
Education

University of South Carolina School of Law, JD (2000), University of South Carolina, Honors College, BS, Biology (1996)

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Key clients

  • Eli Lilly and Company The Estee Lauder Companies Inc.

Work highlights

Served as discovery counsel for Eli Lilly and Company in response to several litigations relating to insulin pricing, settling the class action with individual buyers in May 2023; however, Lilly still faces the In Re Insulin Pricing Litigation MDL that was formed in August 2023 in the District of New Jersey.
Served as discovery counsel for Anthem (now Elevance Health, Inc.) as part of litigation filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office pending in Southern District of New York.
Served as discovery counsel for Estee Lauder in the nationwide personal injury litigation where plaintiffs allege they have developed mesothelioma and/or asbestos-related disease(s) as a result of their use of various Estee Lauder cosmetic products containing talc.