Chip has over 30 years of experience and has managed multiple complex matters. He regularly deposes treating physicians and expert witnesses and has worked extensively with experts and company witnesses in complex cases. He also has experience in strategy development and managing teams as national coordinating counsel and in negotiating and structuring settlements for mass torts. His experience includes serving as Lead Defense Liaison Counsel in In re: Propecia (Finasteride) Product Liability Litigation, (12-MD-2331 (JG)(VVP)), U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York and In re: Propecia^® Litigation, (Case No. 623, Civil Action), Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division: Middlesex County. He also served as national defense counsel for multiple one-off claims involving statins and other cholesterol lowering medications.

Chip’s trial experience includes serving as lead trial counsel in several cases, including Powell v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in the Topamax^® litigation.  He has also played a trial support role for lead counsel in various cases, including Maya v. McNeil, et al., in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas involving Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Children’s Motrin (2011), among others.

In addition to his product liability work, Chip has experience representing clients in class actions, commercial disputes, medical professional liability cases, personal injury suits, and intellectual property litigation.  He also handles mass transportation and trucking defense cases and is a member of the firm’s 24-Hour Accident Investigation Team.

Chip obtained his J.D. from University of Louisville and B.B.A. in Finance from University of Kentucky. He is admitted to practice in Tennessee and Mississippi.