Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP‘s national practice is experienced in litigating product liability and toxic tort matters state-wide, with the firm benefitting from its ability to serve as both national coordinating counsel and as trial counsel in bellwether cases. Situated in Baltimore, Mike Brown is an active first-chair product liability trial counsel within bellwether cases in toxic tort and product liability matters across the US, while Columbia-based David Dukes is currently managing the numerous matters that have opened with regards to the firefighting foam ’MDL’ for Tyco FireProducts and Chemguard. In Charleston, Mark Phillips is active in asbestos litigation, and Washington DC-based John Kalas is defending Bayer Corporation in cases concerning the Roundup weedkiller. Keith Ameele, Peter Mularczyk, Erika Muse and Madelyn Iulo all joined the firm in May 2024.
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Key clients
- American Honda Motor Company
- American International Industries
- American Optical
- Bayer Corporation
- Colgate-Palmolive Company
- The Estée Lauder Companies
- Johnson & Johnson
- Tyco FireProducts LP and Chemguard Inc.
Work highlights
- Representing Colgate-Palmolive Company in nearly 300 talcum powder litigations.
- Defending Bayer Corporation against allegations that its Roundup weedkiller was defective and carcinogenic.
- Achieving a settlement for Tyco FireProducts LP and Chemguard Inc. to end federal claims brought by public water utilities that some "forever chemicals" detected in water supplies came from firefighting foam, as well as managing the 10,000-plus cases in the ongoing MDL concerning PFAS contamination.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Mark Phillips
Practice head
Mark Jones; Alana Bassin
Other key lawyers
Mike Brown; David Dukes; Mark Phillips; John Kalas; Matthew Schroll