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Areas of Emphasis
- Product Liability Law
- Drug and Medical Device
- Class Actions/Mass Tort Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Environmental Liability Law
Distinctions
- AV-rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation (20+ years)
- Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Litigation: General Commercial
- Mid-South Super Lawyers®, Personal Injury Defense: General
- Who's Who Among International Product Liability Lawyers
- Faculty, International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy, 1994
- Brigadier General (Ret.), U.S. Army Reserve
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Fellow, American Bar Association
- Fellow, Mississippi Bar Foundation
Education & Honors
- University of Mississippi, B.A., Greek and English, with honors, 1958
- University of Mississippi, J.D., with honors (first in class), 1960
- Board of Editors, Mississippi Law Journal
- Moot Court Board
- University of the South, Theology Certificate, 1984
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Associations
- International Association of Defense Counsel
- American Bar Association
- Product Liability Advisory Counsel
- Defense Research Institute
- Mississippi Bar
- Board of Commissioners
- Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
- Hinds County Bar Association
- Warren County Bar Association
- President, 1976
Bar Admissions
- Mississippi, 1960
- U.S. District Courts
- Mississippi: Northern and Southern Districts
- Michigan: Eastern District
- U.S. Courts of Appeals
- 2nd Circuit
- 3rd Circuit
- 4th Circuit
- 5th Circuit
- 6th Circuit
- 9th Circuit
- 11th Circuit
- District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Military Appeals
- U.S. Supreme Court
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Legal Experience
- More than 200 trials to verdict in 31 states and the District of Columbia; also several trials in countries in Europe and the Middle East.
- Lead counsel, Henley v. FMC Corp., a chemical exposure class action case; after an initial $38.8 million award, obtained new trial based upon questionable testimony from unqualified witness, second trial ended in a defense verdict (Recognized by the National Law Journal as a Top Defense Win of 1999).
- Irrer, et al. v. Milacron, Inc., 484 F.Supp.2d 677 (E.D. Mich. 2007); Gibson, et al. v. Milacron, Inc.; Babcock et al. v. Milacron, Inc., National counsel and Lead Trial Counsel in Metalworking fluids litigation both in state court and in federal court in Michigan. 400+ claims filed for adverse health effects from exposure to metalworking fluids manufactured by Milacron, Inc.
- Mississippi Dioxin Litigation, lead counsel (See Simmons v. Leaf River; Ferguson v. Georgia Pacific).
- Cook v. Baxter, et al. (ID); Morrison v. Baxter, et al. (FL), Lead Counsel in defense of a manufacturer of intravenous immunoglobulin alleged to have transmitted hepatitis C.
- Weber v. Roche Laboratories, Lead counsel in pharmaceutical product liability (Mississippi 2002).
- Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, Celanese Chemical Corporation and Henkel Corporation, Lead Counsel in defense of toxic chemical litigation, including class action litigation.
- Pettry v. Peabody Energy, Inc. and other cases, Lead Trial Counsel in personal injury cases, both individual and class actions before the West Virginia Mass Tort Panel alleging various injuries from exposure to a wide range of different chemicals.
- Kim Bendall v. General Motors Corporation, Circuit Court of Genesse County, Michigan, Case No. 01-69496-NO, Lead Trial Attorney for General Motors Corporation, 2007.
- Colleen Mary and Robert Grobelny v. Baxter Healthcare Corporation and American Red Cross, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, Case No. 2:05-CV-4645 (PGS), Lead Trial Counsel for both Baxter and AMC, resulted in judgment for the defendants, July 2008.
- Kamie Kendall v. Hoffman-LaRoche et al., Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division: Atlantic County; Docket No. ATL-L-8213-05 MT, Lead Trial Counsel in case tried to verdict; Lead Trial Counsel for Accutane litigation currently being tried in New Jersey.
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Co-Author, “Guide to Toxicology” Chapter, Expert Evidence – A Practitioner’s Guide to Law, Science and the FJC Manual, published by West Group, 1997.
- Lecturer, “Challenging Jurisdictions - What Makes Them That Way?” PLAC Meeting, April 2002.
- Lecturer, “What Happens When Science Moves From The Laboratory To The Courtroom?” The 35th Annual Penner Blood Coagulation Conference sponsored by Michigan State University and held on Malta, June 2002.
- Lecturer, “Exposure, Dose and Causation,” Defense Research Institute, Products Liability Seminar, 1995.
- Lecturer, “Expert Witnesses and Daubert Challenges,” Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC).
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