Rebecca Fitzpatrick, P.C.

Products Liability / Toxic Tort

• Preterm Infant Nutrition Products Liability Litigation: Representing Abbott in multi-jurisdiction litigation involving premature infant formula.
  
• Allergan Opioid Litigation: Representing Allergan in multi-jurisdiction litigation involving public nuisance claims.
  
• JUUL Labs, Inc. Product Liability Litigation: Represented JLI in multi-jurisdiction litigation involving products liability, sales, marketing, and design claims.
  
• DuPont PFAS Litigation: Represented DuPont in several individual, putative class action, and governmental lawsuits related to alleged groundwater contamination from PFAS chemicals.
  
• DuPont Chloroprene Emissions Litigation: Represented DuPont in several individual and putative class actions related to alleged chloroprene emissions from a facility in Louisiana.
  
• Hoffman et al. v. Syngenta: Represented Syngenta in lawsuits related to a pesticide.
  
• In re Testosterone Replacement Therapy Products Liability Litigation: Represented AbbVie in multi-jurisdiction litigation related to a low-testosterone therapy. Tried two bellwether cases to verdict, both victories for AbbVie.
  
• Boeing Groundwater Litigation: Represented Boeing in several cases related to alleged groundwater contamination from facilities in Washington and California.
  
• In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Represented DuPont, General Electric, and other defendants in several thousand personal injury lawsuits alleging cancers and other diseases due to emissions from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. 
  
• Branham v. Rohm & Haas: Represented Rohm & Haas in multiple lawsuits alleging vinyl chloride in groundwater had caused a brain cancer cluster. Mid-trial, the court granted motions to exclude plaintiff’s experts and entered judgment for Rohm & Haas.
  
• Snizavich v. Rohm & Haas: Represented Rohm & Haas in lawsuit alleging that chemicals at research facility caused brain cancer cluster. One day before trial, the court granted a motion to exclude plaintiff’s chief causation expert and entered judgment for Rohm & Haas.
  

Intellectual Property / Business Torts

• Represented healthcare company in compelling arbitration and then in confidential arbitration of dispute over trade secrets.
  
• Abbott v. Edwards Lifesciences: Represented Abbott in patent infringement litigation related to heart repair device.
  
• SS&C Technologies v. Clearwater Analytics: Represented Clearwater Analytics in trade secret matter.
• Represented Abbott in various trade secret disputes.
  

Employment

• Ham v. Novartis: Representing Novartis in lawsuit brought by former employee.
  
• Downing v. Abbott Laboratories: Represented Abbott in employment discrimination litigation.  Jury returned unanimous verdict for defense.
  
• Jelinek v. Abbott Laboratories: Represented Abbott in the fifth trial of an age discrimination lawsuit believed to be one of the longest running civil cases in Ohio state court. After the jury delivered a unanimous verdict for Abbott, The American Lawyer likened the case to “Groundhog Day,” but noted that plaintiff’s persistence was “not working” any longer, as the Kirkland team had “handily dispatched the case.”
  

Other Matters

• Aaron v. Deloitte Tax: Represented Deloitte Tax in a lawsuit alleging estate and tax planning malpractice. Prevailed on motion to dismiss and successfully defended the judgment on appeal.
  
• Century America v. DeProfio, et al.: Represented the directors of Goodheart-Willcox, a textbook publishing company, in securities litigation related to a stock buy-back. Prevailed on motion to dismiss.
  
• Dow Chemical Canada ULC v. Nova Chemicals Corporation: Represented The Dow Chemical Company in breach-of-contract litigation against the operator and co-owner of an ethylene manufacturing facility.