Blank Rome’s mass torts and complex disputes team has guided major national and international companies through high-profile mass litigation and discrete complex disputes that require a sophisticated litigation defense, strong trial skills, and outstanding appellate abilities. In total, our attorneys have litigated and negotiated the resolution of disputes involving hundreds of thousands of claims and potential exposure measured in several billions of dollars.
We work closely with our clients to develop a creative, cost-effective, holistic litigation strategy that addresses the many intricacies of both prominent mass tort and large multi-state commercial litigation. We will aggressively work to limit or knock out litigation, maximize funding sources, and optimize alternative solutions including settlement, mediation, arbitration, and legislative actions.
Our creative solutions to mass torts have included devising a multi-step resolution of breast implant litigation, negotiating “model” real property statewide class settlements, and developing a “blind funding” approach for three nationwide class settlements of pricing claims against the pharmaceutical industry, and resolution of lead paint claims through a negotiated process with state attorneys general.
We know how to get to resolution and how to assure that a resolution process will succeed. Our attorneys handled the design and implementation of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 and have served as court-appointed neutrals responsible for negotiating and implementing complex settlements, including the “Agent Orange” product liability litigation and mass asbestos cases.
We are firm believers in preemptive action. We have decades of experience in performing “due diligence” analyses to identify and limit exposure risks in acquisitions and evaluating risks for reserve purposes.
In order to provide you with the most comprehensive service, we apply the experience of multiple disciplines, including litigation in both private suits and government investigations, a nationally-recognized insurance dispute resolution team, class action, mass tort bankruptcy, and government relations experience, and insights gained through public service for federal courts and the U.S. Department of Justice.
How We Can Help
- Successfully managing litigation involving hundreds of cases filed in multiple jurisdictions, including state coordinated proceedings and multidistrict litigation
- Developing a consistent litigation approach across hundreds of cases over multiple jurisdictions focused on your goals
- Complex settlement negotiation, design, and implementation
- Comprehensive risk analyses and individual case/claim valuations
- Interdisciplinary global resolutions
- International arbitration and international dispute resolution
- Mediation and alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) design and implementation.
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- Litigation
- Antitrust Counseling & Litigation
- Appellate Litigation
- Business Litigation
- Class Action Defense
- Privacy Class Action Defense
- Delaware Corporate Litigation
- Product Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices
- Toxic Torts
- Professional Malpractice Defense
- Securities & Shareholder Litigation
- White Collar Defense & Investigations
