Drug and Device Law: Thanks For The Memories!

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Thanks For The Memories!

What a swell birthday we had.

Above the Law, How Appealing, Point of Law, the Mass Tort Litigation Blog, the Torts Prof Blog, the D and O Diary, and the IP ADR Blog all wished us a happy birthday.

Thanks, guys; we're touched.

Hey, do we know how to party, or what?

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Victoria Pynchon, said...: a convival confederacy of nerds . . . but very nice company indeed . . .; 11:31 PM

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James M. Beck is Counsel resident in the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith. He is the author of, among other things, Drug and Medical Device Product Liability Handbook (2004) (with Anthony Vale). he wrote the seminal law review article on off-label use cited by the Supreme Court in Buckman v. Plaintiffs Legal Committee. He has written more amicus briefs for the Product Liability Advisory Council than anyone else in the history of the organization, and in 2011 won PLAC's highest honor, the John P. Raleigh award. He can be reached at jmbeck@reedsmith.com.

Stephen McConnell has authored articles and chapters on product liability (though nothing as snappy or authoritative as Beck's book) and has tried drug and device cases that managed to evade the pretrial gauntlet. He is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith and can be reached at smcconnell@reedsmith.com.

Michelle Hart Yeary is a seasoned products liability litigator who focuses on attempting to bring order to the chaos that is mass torts, concentrating on the practicalities and realities of defending coordinated and multidistrict litigation. She is counsel in the Princeton office of Dechert LLP and can be reached at michelle.yeary@dechert.com.

John J. Sullivan is a products liability and commercial litigator, having authored articles on mass torts and securities litigation and presented on trial advocacy. He is experienced in mass tort litigation, with a particular emphasis on scientific and regulatory issues, as well as having experience in complex commercial, securities class action and corporate governance litigation. He is a partner in the Princeton office of Dechert LLP and can be reached at john.sullivan@dechert.com.

Eric L. Alexander is a partner in Reed Smith’s Washington office. He has spent almost his entire career representing drug and device companies in product liability litigation from discovery through motions, trials, and appeals, usually on the right side of the v. He is particularly interested in medical and proximate cause and the intersection of actual regulatory requirements and the conduct that plaintiffs allege was bad, which covers quite a bit. He can be reached at ealexander@reedsmith.com.

Melissa A. Wojtylak is a litigator who devotes most of her practice to representing life sciences industry clients in products liability and commercial matters, but she has been known to moonlight as a financial services litigator. She is of counsel in Reed Smith’s Philadelphia and Princeton offices and can be reached at mwojtylak@reedsmith.com.

Mark Herrmann Blogger Emeritus. October 28, 2006 to December 16, 2009.

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