Bowman and Brooke LLP’s Pharmaceutical Litigation practice group includes nearly two dozen experienced trial lawyers serving as national, regional and local counsel in a wide range of cases across the country. In addition to our medical, scientific and regulatory focus, we understand our clients’ business needs and conscientiously deliver results that complement core business objectives.
Our team is currently, and has been, involved in some of the industry’s most high-profile mass tort pharmaceutical litigation matters including acne medications, bisphosphonates, hormone replacement therapy, metoclopramide, phenylpropanolamine (PPA), vaccines, diet drugs, COX-2 inhibitors, anti-seizure medicines and contraceptives. Our experience includes defending individual cases as well as national coordinating counsel roles for prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, biologics and legacy drugs.
We are where you need us. With nine offices strategically located around the country, our trial lawyers have defended thousands of cases and supervised local counsel in such states as Texas, Minnesota, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Utah, Minnesota, New Jersey, Arizona, West Virginia and Mississippi.
Our lawyers have extensive experience, both as national and regional counsel, in defending and managing litigation (including mass torts). This experience includes coordinating a sizable team of lawyers to implement a unified plan, deploying a team of lawyers to work up multiple cases at once, overseeing discovery protocols and large-scale document productions, preparing company witnesses for depositions and trial testimony, assessing litigation risks and the regulatory impact of litigation, ensuring a cutting-edge and consistent legal and appellate strategy, selecting, evaluating and preparing experts witnesses nationwide, and, of course, trying cases to juries.
Because pharmaceutical product liability cases involve complex medical and scientific issues, the recruitment and development of qualified expert witnesses capable of communicating clearly to judges and juries is essential. Translating complex medical and scientific concepts to lay juries is an area in which we excel. We routinely recruit and prepare experts nationally. Over the last twenty years, we have developed relationships with some of the foremost medical and scientific experts in the country in most major medical specialties. When cases are assigned to us, we are able to immediately tap into this network of experts who have previously contributed to the outcome and resolution of our drug and medical device cases. We have compiled contacts for thousands of medical experts in various fields nationwide, which are invaluable resources in our defense of cases.
Our team has extensive experience in arguing legal and evidence-based motions such as preemption,
Daubert-related expert challenges, the learned intermediary doctrine and
Iqbal/Twombly pleading challenges. In addition to defending claims, we monitor regional and national filing trends, evolving case law, medical and scientific journals, and emerging regulatory issues.
In addition to our attorneys, we employ a team of highly skilled nurse paralegals in several of our offices who provide a unique medical review for our cases, and also critically evaluate regulatory compliance in clinical trials. And, our team includes a Partner who boasts both a legal and nursing practice, working a shift each week as a Neuroscience unit nurse at Detroit’s William Beaumont Hospital.