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Represent William Beaumont Hospital in medical malpractice cases
Represent Square D Company in product liability cases and appeals in Michigan
Represent Bristol-Myers, Squibb in breast implant and other litigation
Represented General Motors in personal injury litigation
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Bristol-Myers, Squibb
Detroit Receiving Hospital
Johnson & Johnson
MichCon
Sanofi, Inc.
Square D Company
The Detroit Tigers
W. R. Grace & Co.
William Beaumont Hospital
AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS
Product Liability Litigation
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Named Lawyer of the Year, Michigan Lawyers Weekly, 1999
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Fellow, Michigan State Bar Foundation
Member, ACLU Advisory Board
Board of Directors, Detroit Bar Association
Michigan State Bar Appellate Section
Member, Michigan Supreme Court's Mediation Committee
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
ICLE, "Junk Science: Daubert, Skinner and their Progeny," 1995
73 Michigan Law Journal 161, Co-author with Seltzer, "Evolving Standard of Scientific Acceptance Under Daubert," February 1994
Michigan Defense Trial Counsel Seminar, Program Director: "The Psychological Expert" and "Litigation Strategies," 1992
LACHES, "Writing the Appellate Brief," 1991
University of Detroit Law Review and Defense Law Journal, co-author, "Ex-Parte Interviews with Plaintiffs Treating Physicians The offensive use of the Physicians-Patient Privilege," 1991
Michigan Defense Trial Counsel Quarterly Journal, co-author, "Privilege and Parity in the Discovery Process: The Dierickx case," 1986
NOTABLE APPELLATE DECISIONS
Badalamenti v William Beaumont Hospital, 237 Mich App 278 (1999) ($15 million verdict against Beaumont Hospital set aside on insufficiency of evidence)
Skinner v Square D Company, 445 Mich 153 (1994) (Affirmed: summary disposition obtained for Square D based on lack of evidence of causation in fact)
Huron Valley Hospital v State of Michigan, 887 F2d 710 (Cir 6 1989) (Affirmed: Summary dismissal of multimillion dollar claims against State for economic losses allegedly suffered as a consequence of handling of certificate of need)
Chair of the Amicus Committee of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel from 1994 to 1996; the Committee regularly submitted briefs on behalf of the organization in numerous cases of interest to the defense bar and its clients
EDUCATION
Amherst College, B.A. 1977 (magna cum laude)
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. 1980 (cum laude)
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