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Chris Eby is a legal issues and trial lawyer who defends pharmaceutical companies, consumer product manufacturers, and automotive clients in personal injury and class action cases in federal and state courts across the country. He develops novel and cross-cutting legal arguments that eliminate or reduce his clients' exposure, persuades judges to exclude unfavorable evidence, and conveys complex scientific concepts in terms that juries understand.
Chris has helped leading companies navigate products liability, consumer class action, and complex commercial cases by developing persuasive arguments on legal issues at the cutting-edge of regulation and business. Chris also devises discovery strategies to position mass tort cases for favorable outcomes--from dismissal to defense verdicts--and executes on those strategies by taking and defending depositions of key fact and expert witnesses. Chris briefs and orally argues dispositive and expert-directed motions and, at trial, frequently runs point on all legal issues, including jury instructions. Finally, Chris excels at presenting his clients' cases to juries, often relating some of the most technical medical and scientific evidence at issue in terms that resonate with jurors.
Chris maintains an active pro bono practice, particularly in federal immigration court. He has secured asylum for persecuted individuals from Russia, Eritrea, Mexico, and Venezuela—in each case persuading an immigration judge, after extended briefing and a merits hearing, to release the asylee from detention and grant deportation relief. Chris has also focused his pro bono efforts on appellate advocacy, drafting numerous public interest amicus curiae briefs and representing indigent clients on appeal before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, state courts of appeals, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and more.
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