Lee Adair Floyd
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Lee focuses her practice on the defense of manufacturers in high exposure products liability claims pending in Virginia and across the United States. She has defended automobile, pharmaceutical, and industrial manufacturers as both national and local trial counsel. In addition to her product liability practice, Lee has substantial experience defending energy producers in mass tort litigation. Her mass tort representation ranges from catastrophic loss claims stemming from industrial explosions to environmental claims arising from alleged groundwater contamination.
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- Associations
- Bar Admissions
- Distinctions
- Education & Honors
- Experience
- In the News
- Papers, Presentations, & Publications
Bar Admissions
- West Virginia, 2012
- Virginia, 2015
- U.S. District Courts
- West Virginia: Southern, Northern
- Virginia: Eastern, Western
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 4th Circuit
- Admitted pro hac vice in Arizona, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas.
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Ones to Watch, Oil and Gas Law, 2021
- Ones to Watch, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2021
- Super Lawyers®
- Virginia Rising Stars, Personal Injury – Products: Defense, 2016-2019
- Benchmark Litigation
- Future Star, 2021
- 40 & Under Hot List 2018-2020
- Member of the team selected as nationwide Product Liability Firm of the Year, 2018
Education & Honors
- West Virginia University College of Law, J.D., 2011
- Editor-in-Chief, West Virginia Law Review
- Chesapeake Energy Fellow
- Outstanding Woman in the Law, 2011
- University of Virginia, B.A., Double Major in History and Government, 2006
Experience
- Defended client in VOSH investigation related to alleged COVID outbreak at client’s worksite.
- Defending pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer in national mass tort litigation related to pelvic mesh.
- Counsel for major pharmaceutical company in litigation alleging personal injury claims caused oral contraceptives.
- Defended industrial clients in VOSH investigations related to alleged worksite violations. Numerous successful results for clients, including vacating and settling proposed citations.
- Counsel for major paper manufacturer in various premises claims pending across Virginia.
- National representation of highway product manufacturer in product liability and personal injury claims.
- National representation of domestic and foreign auto manufacturers in product liability claims.
- Defended a coal mining company in extensive litigation resulting from the Upper Big Branch mining disaster in Montcoal, West Virginia.
- Defended industrial employers in premises and “Deliberate Intent” claims in West Virginia. More...
- Defended employers in complex products liability actions and occupational disease claims resulting from alleged worksite chemical exposures.
- Authored Amicus brief in support of oil and gas producers in an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court in dispute over rights, title, and interests to coalbed methane. Dye v. CNX Gas Co., 784 S.E.2d 703 (Va. 2016)
- Obtained class action decertification in commercial royalty dispute related to coal, oil, and gas interests. EQT Production Company v. Adair, 764 F.3d 347 (4th Cir. 2014)
- Performed extensive due diligence reviews for major natural gas producer in connection with a $1 billion joint venture agreement covering 500,000+ acres of Marcellus shale.
In the News
- Benchmark Litigation U.S. 2021 Recognizes 20 Butler Snow Attorneys
- 198 Butler Snow Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2021
- Butler Snow Attorney Lee Adair Floyd Named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2020 40 & Under Hot List
- Benchmark taps Floyd for 40 & Under list - The Nashville Ledger
- Floyd Named to Benchmark Litigation's 2019 40 & Under Hot List - Mississippi Business Journal
- Butler Snow Attorney Lee Adair Floyd Named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2019 40 & Under Hot List
- Benchmark Litigation Recognizes Floyd, Miller & Sutherland - Mississippi Business Journal
- Benchmark Litigation Recognizes 2 Butler Snow Attorneys on its 40 & Under Hot List
- Butler Snow Ranked No. 2 in Lex Machina’s ‘Top Law Firm Report’
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Author, "Evidentiary Privileges Applicable to Title Opinions of Counsel" Energy and Mineral Law Foundation Journal (2013).