Mayer Brown

Leveraging strong core products and toxic tort litigation capability, as well as being able to call upon the expertise of lawyers in complementary areas including appellate law and governmental investigations/white-collar, Mayer Brown frequently has leadership roles in high-profile matters, requiring multi-faceted and comprehensive protection from both a private litigation and governmental angle. The team is a popular choice to act as national co-ordinating counsel on big-ticket MDLs/class actions, helping to drive results and strategy across states and jurisdictions. The team has been at the forefront of many prominent current toxic tort threats to defendants, including ongoing work in the asbestos field, as well as on PFAS matters. Expert trial lawyer Michael Olsen is front and center of many of these, including his work for Veolia as one of the remaining defendants in the Flint Water litigation. Noted for his knowledge of the scientific and technical issues that are key to many of these cases, Craig Woods is central to many of the firm’s successes, working behind the scenes organizing multi-disciplinary expert teams and mounting expert testimony admissibility challenges under Daubert/Frye. Daniel Ring and New York-based Henninger Bullock co-head the overarching product liability and mass torts group alongside Olsen. All named practitioners are based in Chicago unless otherwise noted.