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Morrison Foerster advises manufacturers and resellers on all aspects of the product life cycle, including compliance with labeling, warning requirements, crisis management, and product recalls. Clients rely on the firm to represent and defend them in high-stakes class actions, along with providing regulatory advice particularly in emerging areas like artificial intelligence (AI), renewable energy, and environmental claims. As co-chair of the firm’s complex litigation group and co-head of the AI group, Erin Bosman has extensive experience in defending class actions, mass torts, and multidistrict litigation, advising on product recalls, toxic torts, and environment-related class actions. Julie Park, managing partner of the firm’s San Diego office, specializes in consumer product safety and pharmaceutical and medical device preemption. She provides strategic guidance throughout the product life cycle, including regulatory compliance and product recalls. William Tarantino leads the firm’s environmental litigation and regulatory practice, advising on climate-related claims, hazardous substances, and consumer product safety. All lawyers mentioned are based in San Diego.
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Erin M. Bosman | Morrison Foerster
Erin Bosman is the global co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s litigation department. Erin is also the founder and co-head of the Artificial Intelligence group and former chair of the Complex Litigation + Advisement practice group. Clients value her business strategy, seeking her comprehensive counsel throughout the product life cycle, especially in high-stakes litigation and product recalls.
Erin's clients value her litigation acumen, retaining her as national coordinating and trial counsel in class action cases and multijurisdictional and multidistrict proceedings. She navigates complex business relationships and serves as a defense liaison counsel in cases where multiple defendants have conflicting defenses. A skilled negotiator, Erin has a long track record of securing dismissals and favorable settlements for her clients. When trial is needed, her compelling courtroom skills have delivered successful jury verdicts and appellate victories.
Outside the courtroom, Erin maintains a robust advisement practice, drawing on her litigation experience to counsel clients on product development, risk assessments, product labeling, and risk mitigation strategies to help them avoid and defeat product liability claims. When necessary, Erin advises on crisis management and guides clients through product recalls, representing clients before the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
Erin is a problem-solver through and through. In that role, she advises clients on some of their most difficult product questions, with particular focus on emerging technologies in untested regulatory and litigation landscapes. She is a leader in the fields of wearables and digital health, medical device and pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. Erin counsels clients that have innovative products in the technology and artificial intelligence sector. In addition to her knowledge and experience in the AI space, Erin has also advised clients working with autonomous vehicles, sensors, robotics, and IoT.
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Key clients
- Revlon, Inc. Caesarstone McKesson Corporation MicroPort Orthopedics Inc. Prelude Fertility, Inc. Mars, Inc. Hawaiian Telcom
Work highlights
The firm are representing Hawaiian Telcom in multiple class action matters in Hawaii related to the devastating wildfires on Maui in August 2023.
The firm represented Caesarstone in litigation brought by plaintiffs who allege that they developed silicosis by inhaling silica dust from its synthetic countertops.