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Global drug and medical device companies call on Lana when they need help with defending product liability litigation anywhere in the world, or when they want to try and avoid it all together. She currently serves as national counsel for a global medical device company facing claims against its female pelvic mesh.  As national counsel, she has brought to conclusion litigation for international companies defending claims against an osteoporosis medication, an afib drug and an anti-epilepsy drug. She has defended human blood products and plasma derived biologics, over the counter cough/cold products containing PPA, penile implants, seizure medications, bipolar treatments, and antidiuretic hormones. \nAfter 20 years of the above, Lana also assists clients with developing best practices and procedures to avoid litigation. 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As a partner in our Mass Tort and Toxic Tort practice, Chilton defends corporate clients in a range of commercial litigation.\nWith 30 years of experience as a trial lawyer, Chilton represents clients in mass tort litigation, class actions and multi-district litigation. She has served as trial and appellate counsel for a number of the country’s largest pharmaceutical, medical device and automotive manufacturers.\nChilton was appointed to the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee by Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 2004 and reappointed by Chief Justice John Roberts in 2007, where she participated in drafting amendments governing electronic discovery and changes to the rules governing summary judgment, expert discovery and information-gathering from third parties and corporate executives.  In 2012-13, Chilton was President of the American College of Trial Lawyers.  She is currently President of the Supreme Court Historical Society.\nChilton became the first woman partner in our litigation practices in 1983. She speaks regularly on women’s issues and has taught a session of the Temple University Graduate Program in Litigation titled “Women as Trial Lawyers.” She also gave the Kolsby Distinguished Lecture in Trial Advocacy at Temple University Law School in 2014.\nIn 2016, Chilton was recognized as a Life Sciences Star by LMG Life Sciences and identified as a Leading Individual by Legal 500 U.S. She was also recognized by Benchmark Litigation in its 2016 edition of Top 250 Women in Litigation.\nSince 2003, Chambers USA has recognized Chilton as a leader in Commercial Litigation, Product Liability and Trial practice, and since 2005 as one of the country's best lawyers as well as a Band 1 Product Liability lawyer. 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He represents owners, developers, contractors, operators, asset managers, investors, and off-takers of both conventional and renewable power projects, including combined cycle power plants, photovoltaic power plants, battery storage projects, and wind farms. \nJosé Mario advises clients on disputes involving engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts, power purchase agreements (PPAs), operation and maintenance (O\u0026amp;M) agreements, LLC agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and supply agreements. His practice covers the full spectrum of energy-related disputes, from project development and construction claims, to claims involving the asset's operation and management, and conflicts involving electricity markets and regional transmission organizations/independent transmission operators (RTOs/ITOs). He also counsels LLC members in disputes over governance and management of energy assets.\nIn the construction arena, José Mario represents contractors, owners, and developers in the typical construction claims involving project delays, cost overruns, extra work, engineering and design defects, among others. His experience navigating the technical, financial, and contractual complexities of multi-billion-dollar facilities enables him to develop tailored solutions that advance both legal and commercial objectives.\nBeyond his experience in energy and infrastructure construction disputes, José Mario has broad experience in commercial disputes. He has prosecuted and defended against frequent commercial claims, including breach of contract, fraud, and other business torts. He is also proficient in theories of derivative liability such as alter ego, de facto merger, veil piercing, and agency.\nIn addition to representing clients in active litigation and arbitration, José Mario frequently advises on pre-dispute strategy. He helps clients frame arguments, preserve leverage, and position themselves advantageously in anticipation of potential conflicts. 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Managing 7 attorneys reviewing 10,000 documents for a financial institution, including review of credit and collateral files for accounting issues in preparation for witness interviews in a shareholder derivative lawsuit.  This review was completed in less than two weeks.  Managing and supervising 7 attorneys reviewing 65,000 documents for a financial services company for a federal regulatory matter.   Managing 10 attorneys reviewing 120,000 documents related to federal regulators’ investigations involving an international banking and financial services firm. Coordinating with litigation technology support staff and a team of 6 attorneys to review over 12,000 documents in response to a federal regulators’ third-party subpoena regarding the accounting practices of a large manufacturing client’s retail customer.  This included developing and utilizing search term strategies that resulted in the elimination from the review of approximately 40,000 non-relevant, previously collected documents, providing substantial savings for the client.  Over 3,000 responsive documents were produced electronically in compliance with the agency’s published, precise formatting criteria for produced documents. Managing and training as many as 88 attorneys, 10 paralegals, 15 project assistants and 6 IT professionals in connection with a review of more than 4 million documents.  Documents were reviewed for responsiveness, privilege, confidentiality, and significance to discovery requests in both federal and state courts throughout the country over a 3-year period.   Supervising a team of as many as 50 attorneys, paralegals, project assistants and IT professionals reviewing over 2.6 million documents over a 5-year period for a Fortune 50 consumer product client involved in litigation in federal and state courts throughout the country, producing over 1.8 million documents in paper copy and electronic format, and making available over 1.2 million documents to a settlement-mandated, out-of-state centralized document depository.  Drafting proposals, protocols and record-keeping forms for large scale, company-wide document collection and interviewing and supervising the interview of over 800 company personnel, including senior officers and directors, so as to ensure collection of documents most likely to be relevant to the litigation and substantial cost savings to a large pharmaceutical client involved in product liability litigation throughout the country. Supervising a team of 30 attorneys in the preparation of a privilege log consisting of over 20,000 documents for a Fortune 100 consumer products client in environmental litigation.  Managing and training a team of 10 attorneys in the review of over 175,000 documents in a patent infringement lawsuit for an internet security and services client.  The documents were reviewed for privilege, significance and responsiveness; the review was completed in less than 6 weeks. Supervising and managing large scale collection of more than 2.5 million documents in diverse locations (e.g., client headquarters and sales, manufacturing and other offices) for a large consumer product client in complex, mass tort, and product liability litigation in both federal and state courts throughout the country. Managing multiple third-party vendors responsible for all phases of document collection and processing, including photocopying, imaging, and objectively coding millions of documents.  This included developing a coordinated plan with a vendor’s national and regional offices to oversee nationwide document collections over a 6 month period. Advising a real estate investment trust on document retention and collection policies and coordinating a document collection from 25 corporate personnel for documents responsive to two shareholder lawsuits. Coordinating document discovery issues (e.g., document collections, document productions, deposition preparation, and privilege logs) with national co-counsel and local trial counsel involved in multi-jurisdictional litigation throughout the country. Litigation Technology Experience\nThrough his significant involvement in training and supervising attorney review teams, as well as his experience collecting, processing, and producing documents, Mr. Vandiver regularly participates in the selection and supervision of vendors.  He also has experience drafting and developing review team plans and protocols.  He has extensive experience with litigation support systems including Relativity, Stratify, ClarVergence, Ontrack Inview, Attenex, IConect, Introspect, Discovery Radar, Concordance, IPro, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Access.","searchable_name":"David S. Vandiver III","is_active":true,"featured":null,"publish_date":null,"expiration_date":null,"blog_featured":null,"published_by":202,"capability_group_featured":null,"home_page_featured":null}]}}