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Geoffrey Drake is a partner in our Product Liability & Mass Torts Practice, for which he serves as the Practice Management/Operations Partner. Geoffrey is also Chair of our Consumer Products & Automotive Litigation Team, which Legal 500 has recognized as one of the top five such practices in the country. Before that, Geoffrey led our Pharmaceutical/Medical Device Litigation Team. Geoffrey represents life sciences, automotive and transportation, technology and energy/mining companies in high-profile product liability, toxic tort and mass tort litigation. He has extensive experience litigating all phases of individual, MDL and class action cases, as well as serving as coordinating and strategic counsel in connection with large dockets of cases at both the federal and state levels. He also has an active trial practice, having represented clients in several high-stakes trials. Geoffrey has significant experience with legal project management, having helped structure, lead and manage several large, cross-practice, cross-office matters, including to design and implement sophisticated budgets and alternative billing arrangements and manage the organization, workflow and staffing plans to deliver the client exceptional and efficient services.
An experienced litigator, Geoffrey represents clients in nationwide, high-exposure product liability, mass tort, class action, toxic tort and whistleblower litigation, along with internal and government investigations. He litigates all phases of cases in federal and state courts nationwide, including in the most challenging jurisdictions for corporate clients. From the start, Geoffrey handles each matter with a view toward trial, considering how to communicate effectively to a jury a host of complex scientific, technical and regulatory issues. In addition to litigation, he advises manufacturers on issues such as risk assessment, liability avoidance, product labeling, government regulation and indemnification. Geoffrey chairs our nationally recognized Consumer Products & Automotive Litigation Team. And for five years before that, he chaired our leading Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Litigation Team. He has been recommended by Legal 500 as a Key Lawyer in consumer product litigation, automotive litigation and pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, and he recently co-authored the leading treatise, Drug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy, 2nd Edition (Oxford Univ. Press). In 2018, Law360 selected Geoffrey to serve on its Product Liability editorial advisory board. Before that, in 2016, Law360 listed Geoffrey as a “Rising Star” in product liability litigation, recognizing him as among top legal talent under the age of 40. He was named to the Benchmark Litigation "40 & Under Hot List” for five consecutive years, was named by Benchmark Litigation as a "Future Star" in 2018, was named in 2018 to the Daily Report’s “On the Rise” list of attorneys under the age of 40 who are expected to go far in the field, and was for eight consecutive years recognized as a “Georgia Super Lawyer – Rising Star” in product liability defense by Super Lawyers and Atlanta Magazine. Geoffrey also served as a member of the inaugural Next Generation Advisory Board for Emory University's Institute for Complex Litigation and Mass Claims.
J.D., Vanderbilt University
B.A., University of Virginia
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Georgia
Supreme Court of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
September 18, 2024
Todd Davis, Geoff Drake and TaCara Harris represent Activision Blizzard, Treyarch and Microsoft before a Georgia federal court in a dispute alleging video game addiction
Co-Lead Counsel to TikTok in nationwide litigation in which individual plaintiffs allege personal injuries and school districts and other governmental entities allege economic damages arising from adolescent use of various online communications services, including in the In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Litigation MDL pending in the Northern District of California and the In re Social Media Cases JCCP pending in Los Angeles County.
Lead counsel to Activision Blizzard in connection with nationwide lawsuits alleging a variety of personal injuries and psychiatric harms arising from addiction to playing video games.
Representing Renco Group and Doe Run Resources in mass tort litigation in two federal court consolidated proceedings in St. Louis concerning personal-injury allegations by several thousand Peruvians citizens allegedly harmed by exposure to lead and other contaminants from a smelter in the Andean Highlands of Peru.
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February 3, 2022
Upcoming Rulings Key To Defining PREP Act Protections
January 26, 2022
Taking a “Hard Look” at Expert Witness Testimony Under Rule 702
October 10, 2016
Antibacterial Soaps: When Squeaky Clean Is Not Enough
September 18, 2024
Todd Davis, Geoff Drake and TaCara Harris represent Activision Blizzard, Treyarch and Microsoft before a Georgia federal court in a dispute alleging video game addiction
Co-Lead Counsel to TikTok in nationwide litigation in which individual plaintiffs allege personal injuries and school districts and other governmental entities allege economic damages arising from adolescent use of various online communications services, including in the In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Litigation MDL pending in the Northern District of California and the In re Social Media Cases JCCP pending in Los Angeles County.
Lead counsel to Activision Blizzard in connection with nationwide lawsuits alleging a variety of personal injuries and psychiatric harms arising from addiction to playing video games.
Representing Renco Group and Doe Run Resources in mass tort litigation in two federal court consolidated proceedings in St. Louis concerning personal-injury allegations by several thousand Peruvians citizens allegedly harmed by exposure to lead and other contaminants from a smelter in the Andean Highlands of Peru.
See more
February 3, 2022
Upcoming Rulings Key To Defining PREP Act Protections
January 26, 2022
Taking a “Hard Look” at Expert Witness Testimony Under Rule 702
October 10, 2016
Antibacterial Soaps: When Squeaky Clean Is Not Enough
September 18, 2024
Todd Davis, Geoff Drake and TaCara Harris represent Activision Blizzard, Treyarch and Microsoft before a Georgia federal court in a dispute alleging video game addiction
J.D., Vanderbilt University
B.A., University of Virginia
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Georgia
Supreme Court of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia