MDL & Coordinating Counsel Leadership

Clients facing complex cross-jurisdictional litigations involving massive dockets turn to us for our MDL & coordinating counsel leadership capabilities, developed over decades of serving leading U.S. companies as national coordinating counsel. With the proven ability to staff and litigate large dockets, our team offers a mix of experience and skills that benefit our clients in all stages of mass litigation. We routinely serve as lead, national coordinating, trial, and resolution counsel in MDLs and state court consolidated proceedings involving thousands to more than one-hundred thousand plaintiffs.

We manage litigation that spans geographies, jurisdictions, legal issues, and time, serving as the central hub for sprawling national dockets.  Our teams use technology, including AI, not only to drive efficiency, but also to enable consistency in how we make decisions at scale.  Rapidly changing and improving technology is unlocking opportunities to capture and redeploy knowledge in new ways, resulting in better outcomes for our clients.  We work closely with our clients to innovate together and find new ways of delivering value to stakeholders. 

Our track record reflects deep experience before MDL courts in building expert- and law-driven defenses, managing massive dockets, coordinating discovery and experts at scale, and aligning federal and state litigation strategies to avoid conflict and maximize leverage. At the same time, our team is skilled at driving favorable outcomes while still treating plaintiffs with empathy. We have decades of experience against the leading mass tort plaintiff firms in this space, regularly leveraging that experience to our clients’ benefit. 

We are particularly well-versed in navigating complex litigation that quickly becomes “viral,” with regulators, consumers, the media, and the government lodging brand-threatening, multi-pronged attacks that magnify the reputational and legal harm to a business. Our team’s experience in coordinating this litigation — including massive data breaches and privacy claims, personal injury suits against automotive and pharmaceutical companies, and allegations of harm to adolescents in the social media litigation — has allowed us to develop a process that helps companies minimize liability and reputational exposure with the highest level of defense at the lowest possible cost.

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