Edd has a deep commitment to pro bono work and has volunteered a significant portion of his time to assisting pro se plaintiffs and underprivileged tenants facing eviction. Edd enjoys digging deep into the facts of a case in order to fashion the best defense for his clients. At trial, Edd has prepared cross-examinations of fact and expert witnesses and has served as lead trial counsel for two federal trials in the Eastern District of California. Edd has practiced in both federal and state court and specializes in interstate discovery procedures and expert witness development.

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Danny regularly tries cases and arbitrations in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. He has tried an arbitration or case in 16 states and three foreign countries. He is known as a practical problem solver who has a keen sense of a client’s ultimate business objective and keeps that in focus throughout the life of the case.

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Richard leads a team of 18 lawyers in several offices of the firm who have worked closely with him in successfully handling MDLs and other litigation with a national scope. Together, with the assistance of numerous other attorneys throughout Nelson Mullins’ nationwide platform, the team has successfully litigated and resolved thousands of cases around the country.

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Nationally recognized for her extraordinary trial record of 58 defense verdicts, Lori leads a global practice that focuses on complex litigation of all types including products liability and pharmaceutical, medical device, and health care litigation. Lori has served as national, regional, and trial counsel for numerous medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, handling all types of litigation, including class actions, multidistrict litigation, and trials nationally. Lori and her team routinely take complex cases to trial and win, including some of the most complex mass torts in history. Well known for her ability to win high-stakes trials, Lori is often called upon to “parachute in” at the last minute before trial, especially in challenging cases in dangerous jurisdictions. Lori is Board Certified in Complex Litigation by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

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Mr. Cerrito has represented and continues to represent the patentees for Revlimid, a product approved for the treatment of Multiple Myeloma, which has annual revenues in excess of $8 billion dollars. He is also lead counsel for the patentee in Hatch-Waxman cases relating to Abraxane®, Xyrem®, and Pomalyst® among others. Nick’s past representations have also included Namenda®, Altace®, Avinza® Oxycontin®, Moexipril®, Skelaxin®, Cardizem®, Sonata®, Itsodax®, Qysima® and Thalomid®. As co-lead trial counsel, he successfully represented the only defendant to prevail in the first-wave Prilosec® litigation, at that time the largest pharmaceutical litigation ever.

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Stephen also regularly counsels clients on a wide-range of regulatory, risk management, due-diligence, product labeling, policy and crisis-management issues.

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Mr. Johnston has served as co-lead _trial counsel in multiple pharmaceutical products liability trials, including Hogan v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 1-06-CV-00260-BMC (E.D.N.Y. 2011), which _resulted in a defense verdict for our client. He manages the defense of class action, consolidated, and serial litigations and represents _clients in significant individual matters as well. He has developed key liability defenses to sweeping allegations of corporate _misconduct, and he has worked with experts and senior company employees to advance those _defenses in depositions and at trial. He defends depositions of corporate employees and has been involved in motions disputing the admissibility at trial of videotaped corporate depositions. He prepared eight corporate witnesses to testify at trial in Meng v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. MID-L-7670-07-MT (N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. May 15, 2013) in New Jersey, and in Davids v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 06-CV-431 (E.D.N.Y.2012) in New York federal court (where he served as co-lead trial counsel). Mr. Johnston has developed and presented the testimony of scientific experts and cross-examined plaintiffs’ experts both at deposition and trial. In support of his work developing liability defenses, he is co-leader of the Firm’s e-Discovery group. He has experience implementing court-approved document review strategies and stays current on developments regarding Technology Assisted Review and other emerging document review protocols. He has supervised productions numbering in the tens of millions of pages of documents and regularly counsels clients regarding e-Discovery issues. He is a member of The Sedona Conference.

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