The product liability team at Shook, Hardy & Bacon International LLP represents clients across a spectrum of industries including pharma, medical devices, automotive, technology, telecommunications, construction and engineering. The practice has a focus on defense with experience in mass tort and complex litigation. Practice head Simon Castley focuses on mass claims and managing compliance with regulations. Sarah Croft focuses on product liability claims involving medical devices and automotive products.

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‘Very good communicative team.’
‘Go above and beyond, excellent communication. Clear and concise advice’
‘Expert product liability practitioners, master strategists and trusted advisors to some of the world's biggest companies.’
‘Sarah Croft - incisive, market leading knowledge of the latest developments affecting her clients, globally connected and knowledgeable Simon Castley - very personable, well connected, great strategist and client's right hand man’
‘The questions we had related to a niche market. SHB had a team of attorneys well-versed in this area of law, as well as had connections with others in various countries on the same topic. This allowed us to full resolve our issue in the different jurisdictions.’
‘Simon Castley is outstanding for product work and its overlap with health and safety.
‘Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP has an in-depth knowledge of product liability issues including international ones. They have developed a great expertise on how the various regulators (UK, EU, US and Canadian to name a few) interact with each others and what they will be looking at. They notably rely on a pool of scientists which help them understand the latest developments and technology aspects of the matters.’

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