Russell Gaudreau III (Chip)

• Serves as national resolution counsel to an international medical device manufacturer in mesh and IVC filter multidistrict litigations.
• Serves as resolution counsel to a pharmaceutical company in two separate multidistrict litigations.
• Served as coordinating and resolution counsel to a safety equipment manufacturer in defense of asbestos, CWP and silica claims pending in various state and federal courts across the country.
• Served as resolution counsel to a Fortune 50 company in defense of foreign and domestic claims related to hip and knee implants.
• Participated in the negotiation and ultimate settlement of the nation’s largest sales practice class action involving a Fortune 100 financial services company.
• Served as national coordinating counsel to one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies in its toxic tort litigation.

Chip Gaudreau has a broad range of experience defending multinational companies in complex product liability and mass tort litigations across multiple industries, with a particular focus on strategic litigation management and resolution strategies for the pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare industries. Chip has also worked on national litigations involving automobiles, safety equipment, financial services and toxic torts.

Chip’s main focus is achieving the right outcome for clients in litigation. To that end, he provides all-inclusive strategic litigation management and resolution strategies that are narrowly tailored to clients’ financial needs and ultimate goals. He manages and coordinates large teams in complex national litigation.

He routinely designs and implements creative alternative fee arrangements and manages those arrangements during the life of an engagement to avoid surprises and provide predictability in “outside counsel” legal spend. In fact, Chip often works hand-in-hand with his clients and their legal finance departments to provide complete transparency in the level of work being performed and to ensure that expected financial targets are met.