Product Liability

LLF lawyers are nationally recognized product liability specialists and serve clients as national, regional and local counsel. We work with businesses at every level of the product development and distribution chain – from designers and manufacturers to importers, distributors and retailers – and we are often engaged to litigate cutting-edge product liability issues in California and across the country. We are experts at defending against design defect, manufacturing defect and warnings claims, with a thorough understanding of the nuanced defense strategy often required in multi-party, expert-intensive cases. LLF has successfully handled cases involving a wide array of products spanning many industries, including pharmaceutical and medical devices, construction equipment, industrial machinery, firearms and ammunition, recreational equipment, consumer products, and food products, to name a few. LLF also counsels clients in risk management strategies, document retention programs, pre-litigation investigation, warnings and instructions, industry-wide litigation, successor liability and regulatory issues including California's Prop 65. As active participants in leading product liability defense organizations, such as the Product Liability Advisory Council, LLF lawyers publish and speak frequently in this ever-changing area of the law.​

Representative Engagements

• ​National counsel for international firearms manufacturers, importers and distributors in all U.S. product liability claims and suits
• Generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in complex coordinated proceeding (Metoclopramide Litigation) involving thousands of plaintiffs
• Shuttle bus door manufacturer in wrongful death action involving UCSF physician ejected from bus during collision
• Roller press manufacturer in operator’s suit involving traumatic amputation
• National counsel for California-based firearms manufacturer
• Water system boiler manufacturer in major property damage claim arising out of a fire at Southern California ski resort
• Meteorological Evaluation Tower manufacturer in fatal accident arising out of crop-duster collision
• U.S. pistol manufacturer in highly publicized wrongful death trial arising out accidental shooting of teenage boy

• Construction equipment manufacturer in wrongful death trial involving tip-over of a self-propelled elevating work platform
  
• Electronic Control Device manufacturer in numerous wrongful death actions in Northern California courts
• Manufacturing clients in a variety of industries in development of on-product warnings and instruction manuals
• Log home manufacturer in action involving allegedly defective log home components
• Old West replica firearms manufacturer in catastrophic personal injury actions
  
• Manufacturer’s representative in air filter system component failure resulting in catastrophic property loss in San Francisco commercial building
• Heat exchanger manufacturer in pre-litigation matter arising out of significant chlor-alkalai manufacturing plant loss