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Blank Rome Attorneys and Practices Honored by Benchmark Litigation 2026

ADR Summit 2025

Environmental Class Actions: Still Rising or Past Their Peak?

Blank Rome Attorneys Recognized in 2026 Best Lawyers in America®

Providing Sufficient Time to Locate Information to Support Actions Filed on “Information and Belief”

Water Contamination Litigation

Blank Rome Attorneys Named to 2024 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll

The Actual Recovery and Cy-Près Distributions

33rd Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Midyear Conference

Terrorism Claims

Lead Contamination in Water: Flint Water Crisis Update

Blank Rome Named Pro Bono Counsel Award Winner by the National Homelessness Law Center

Addressing Consequences of Supreme Court’s Purdue Pharma Ruling, Which Prohibits Nonconsensual, Nondebtor Releases

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Blank Rome Attorneys and Practices Honored by Benchmark Litigation 2025

Blank Rome Attorneys Recognized in 2025 Best Lawyers in America®

Bench-Bar Roundtable Summit Addressing Likely Surges of Tag-Along Filings in Mass-Tort MDLs

How Much Is Too Much? Channeling Mass Tort Claims through an Insolvency Proceeding

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Risk Analysis: How Can We Even Begin to Negotiate, Mediate, or Commit to Arbitrate without Having First Analyzed Our Risks and Exposures?

Implications from the United States Supreme Court’s rulings in Purdue Pharma and Kaiser Gypsum on Mass Tort Insurance Coverage

ACAN 2024 Annual Meeting

Mass Actions and Government Agencies

Emerging Trends in the US: Bankruptcies, Class Actions, and Mass Consolidations

Understanding the Flint Water Litigation—Defining Justice in the Parameters of the Adversarial Process

Litigation and Employment Law Issues for In-House Counsel

Global Class Actions Symposium 2023

Benchmark Litigation 2024 Recognizes Blank Rome Attorneys and Practices

Examining Expanding Roles of Special Masters and Court-Appointed Experts and Technical Advisors in Mass-Tort MDLs

Blank Rome Attorneys Recognized in 2024 Best Lawyers in America®

Blank Rome Attorneys Named to 2022 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll

Private Market ESG in Action: Capitalizing on the Convergence of Legal and Business Strategy

PFAS, the Forever Chemical

What Works, What Doesn’t

Court-Appointed Neutrals’ Role Assisting with Compliance with the Time Standards

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Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (“PFAS”)

Notable Successes
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<li>Designed and implemented settlement distributions in multiple mass tort and mass claim matters.</li>
<li>Negotiated resolution securing over one billion dollars of insurance assets for a company with long tail products exposure.</li>
<li>Guided a company through multiple and extended disputes over the implementation of a settlement involving over three billion dollars in potential funding obligations.</li>
<li>Guided a company through the evaluation of strategic options for assessing, valuing, forecasting and resolving thousands of products claims—both pending and future.</li>
<li>Provided strategic counsel to multiple companies in the resolution of mass tort claims, including through Chapter 11.</li>
<li>Represented companies in resolution of complex class actions.</li>
<li>Represented multiple companies in asbestos‐related bankruptcies.</li>
<li>Advised and designed options for a non‐U.S. company regarding strategies for addressing long tail claims asserted against a U.S. subsidiary.</li>
<li>Implemented settlement procedures as a court‐appointed mediator and Special Master for mass consolidations in New York state and federal courts; in private dispute resolution process, implemented claims resolution process resulting in the resolution of hundreds of thousands of claims involving insurance products and thousands of claims related to antitrust disputes.</li>
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