Representative Matters

eDiscovery Litigation and Counseling

  • Assisted global pharmaceutical company on numerous information governance initiatives, including defensible deletion projects, data eDiscovery risk assessments, and creation of corporate informative governance policy.
  • Created eDiscovery risk assessment for large insurance company.
  • eDiscovery counsel for client in a large complex products liability MDL; creating and overseeing eDiscovery strategy; responding to spoliation claims; preparing witnesses on eDiscovery issues.
  • Retained as national eDiscovery counsel for pharmaceutical company; implemented eDiscovery policies and procedures, including preservation, legal hold and collection protocols; consulted on eDiscovery issues arising in various litigations; advised on foreign data collection.
  • eDiscovery counsel for national insurer and eDiscovery contact for numerous litigations across country to ensure consistent approach to eDiscovery; negotiated eDiscovery issues with opposing counsel.
  • Assisted global pharmaceutical client defend against discovery sanctions motion, prepared witnesses to testify on such issues; implemented record retention and litigation hold policies for foreign subsidiary; conducted data and information inventory assessment of foreign subsidiary and advised on retention procedures.
  • Conducted inventory analysis for large insurance company to align records and data with records retention policies; drafted associated preservation procedures.
  • eDiscovery counsel for accounting company on eDiscovery issues arising in government investigations and litigations.
  • Counseled foreign tire company in potential product liability exposure in U.S. with regards to expectations for U.S. discovery.
     

Complex Litigation

  • Defended large pharmaceutical company in several license agreement disputes pending in federal and state court.
  • Acted as national counsel for pharmaceutical company in product liability multidistrict litigation.
  • Retained as national counsel for Fortune 20 pharmaceutical company and its self-insurer in a national product liability/mass tort litigation consisting of federal multidistrict litigation and hundreds of state cases.
  • Represented national consulting and auditing firm in multiple SEC and PCAOB investigations.
  • Defended large U.S. pharmaceutical corporation in a litigation involving RICO and consumer fraud claims.
  • Represented pharmaceutical company in a NJ state court litigation involving a failed M&A transaction.
  • Represented pharmaceutical company in product liability litigation in NY State court coordinated proceedings.
  • Represented pharmaceutical company as national settlement and ADR counsel in large mass tort litigation.