Butler Snow LLP

Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Healthcare Litigation

As an attorney in Butler Snow’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare group, Tara Blake represents pharmaceutical and medical device companies in product liability litigation across the country, with experience in all aspects of mass tort litigation.  She has also represented insurance and financial services companies across the country in individual and multi-party litigation involving a wide variety of coverage lines including professional and commercial liability, life, health, property and fidelity/crime coverage, defending against complex, bad-faith, class and punitive damages claims.

Tara served as trial counsel in a seven-day jury trial involving pelvic mesh that resulted in a defense verdict in March 2022. McBroom v. Ethicon, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:20-cv-02127, United States District Court for the District of Arizona. She also served on the trial team that obtained complete defense victory in a multi week jury trial on bad-faith/claims issues involving employee theft coverage following a $50 million pretrial damages claim. McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Inc., et al. v. The Hartford Financial Services Group, No. 30-2011-00463182, California Superior Court, County of Orange (Hon. Mary Fingal Schulte / Dept. C6).

Tara has been selected by Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch for her insurance and product liability litigation work. She was also selected as one of Nashville Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 (2023).  She obtained her J.D. from the University of Alabama and her B.S. from Furman University. Tara is admitted to the State Bars of Alabama, California and Tennessee.