Andrew T Bayman (Andy)

Andy Bayman is the Practice Group Leader of King & Spalding’s Tort Litigation and Environmental Practice Group.  The Practice Group, with over 300 lawyers in five offices (including a state-of-the-art offsite Discovery Center), is one of the largest practice groups of its kind in the U.S. and is devoted exclusively to defending tort litigation.  The Practice Group offers a complete array of expertise — from the cost-effective collection of documents, the work-up of scientific and other experts, and a sophisticated motion practice — to trial and appeal, including in class actions and MDLs in notoriously dangerous jurisdictions.  The Practice Group was recognized by The American Lawyer in 2012 as one of the top three product liability practices in the country and Chambers USA and the Legal 500 have placed the Practice Group in the top tier of such practices nationwide.   Law 360 also recently named the Practice Group as one of its 2011 Top Five Product Liability Practices in the United States.  The Practice Group was also named twice to the National Law Journal’s “Defense Hot List” of top ten firms with cutting-edge, successful strategies. 

Mr. Bayman was recently elected to a second term on King & Spalding’s Policy Committee, the firm’s management committee, and has served in numerous other leadership positions within the firm.  Mr. Bayman chairs King & Spalding’s Pharmaceutical-Medical Device-Biotech industry practice initiative.

Memberships

• Served as the 2004-05 Chair of the State Bar of Georgia’s Product Liability Section.   
  
  
• Presents frequently on product liability issues and trial skills as well as on emerging issues in product liability litigation and current developments in evidence law at Georgia Bar and national seminars.  He gave a model closing argument at the ABA’s Emerging Issues in Automobile Product Liability Litigation in Phoenix, AZ and at the State Bar of Georgia’s 11th Annual Product Liability Seminar. 
  
  
• Served on various committees of the Lawyer’s Club of Atlanta and is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute and is a Fellow of the Lawyers’ Foundation of Georgia. 

Publications

• Co-author, along with partner Chilton Varner, of Regulation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (Law Journal Press 2010), a treatise designed to provide lawyers at pharmaceutical companies with a 360-degree review of the regulatory and litigation environment enveloping their industry.
  
  
• Varner and Bayman:  “Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Providing a Privilege Index Under Proposed Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5),” ABA National Institute on Emerging Issues in Automobile Product Liability Litigation (March 19, 1991).
  
  
• Bayman:  “Strict Liability for Defective Ideas in Publications”, 42 Vand. L. Rev. 557 (1989).

Court Admissions

• Admitted to practice in all of the state and federal courts of Georgia as well as in the Supreme Court of Georgia, Supreme Court of the United States, the Third, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits and in the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Central District of Illinois, Western District of Michigan,  and the District of Colorado. 
  
  
• Has been admitted pro hac vice in the Courts of Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming. 

Education

• Received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law where he was a Patrick Wilson Scholar and a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review.
  
  
• Graduated, magna cum laude, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he was  a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa.  He was also one of the original recipients of the President’s Award for Distinguished Service to Miami University.