Greenberg Traurig LLP’s ‘thorough’ and highly skilled team is regularly called upon to serve as national, regional, special trial, or science counsel in mass torts, MDLs, class actions and individual cases for leading pharma manufacturers and medical device companies. The team has handled significant and complex litigation in areas including the opioids crisis, Zantac, and pelvic and hernia mesh cases. Atlanta-based Lori Cohen is widely recognized for her trial expertise in defending pharma and medical device companies in high-stakes litigation. Also in Atlanta, Sara Thompson and Victoria Lockard craft and execute sophisticated legal strategies to resolve complex litigation, having represented Teva Pharmaceuticals in MDLs involving generic ranitidine (Zantac) and valsartan, respectively. Gregory Ostfeld, in Chicago, is a first-chair trial and appellate attorney with experience handling large product claims and class actions, while Austin Evans, who splits his time between Denver, Atlanta, and Philadelphia, joined the team from King & Spalding LLP.
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‘The best trial team in the business.’
‘They are thorough, tough and if you have a complicated or mass tort matter, this is the team to go with.’
Key clients
- Albertsons Companies, Inc. Bausch Health Companies, Inc. Lockheed Martin Corporation Medtronic, Inc. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Qualcomm Incorporated Sandoz Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. GE Healthcare Eli Lilly and Company Senseonics International Medical Devices Smith + Nephew Boehringer Ingelheim Bracco Diagnostics / ACIST Medical Systems Himmel Management Co. LLC Teleflex UCB Becton, Dickinson and Company (“BD”); C. R. Bard, Inc. Bird Global, Inc. (f/k/a Bird Rides, Inc.) Alcon Vision LLC Univar Inc. Red Bull North America Sterigenics U.S., LLC; Sotera Health Berkley Life Sciences, LLC Advantage Logistics Midwest, Inc. DevaConcepts LLC/DevaCurl Target Corporation aap Implantate AG Coty, Inc. Artivion (f/k/a CryoLife) Danaher Corp. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. B. Braun Interventional Systems, Inc. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Johnson & Johnson / Janssen Kimberly-Clark Corporation The Colgate-Palmolive Company Bausch + Lomb Corporation
Work highlights
Acting as national counsel and trial counsel for product liability litigation for Medtronic Inc. arising from its business units, including its implantable cardiovascular devices (ICDs).