Complex Torts

Clients rely on Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice in high-stakes, reputationally sensitive, and bet-the-company trials and arbitrations. Drawing on our deep experience trying cases, our innovative counseling on tactical litigation strategies and defenses, and our collaboration with clients’ communication teams to develop public relations strategies that safeguard their reputations and assets, the roster of seasoned first-chair trial attorneys in GT’s Complex Torts Practice provides a powerful partner in our clients’ most important matters.

The firm’s Complex Torts Practice helps clients manage their highest exposures—whether that’s a media-driven crisis asserting industry misconduct, aggressive moves by federal or state regulators, class-wide claims of economic losses, or mass torts claims asserting personal injuries from product defects, systematic negligence, toxic exposure, or a natural or manmade disaster, spill, accident, or other catastrophic incident—and our team of attorneys knows that handling these time-sensitive emergencies requires a deft touch. Our complex torts attorneys can mobilize immediately to respond to these high-exposure threats with strategic action, litigation know-how, and resources.

This is why The American Lawyer, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 United States, Law360, Benchmark Litigation, and others have recognized Greenberg Traurig for products liability, mass tort, and other coordinated and class action defense in consumer products, toxic torts, and pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Our Complex Torts Practice draws on the significant skills of more than 175 attorneys across three key practice areas:

• Environmental & Toxic Tort Litigation
• Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation
• Products Liability & Mass Torts

Minimizing risk and maximizing advantages in complex tort defense require a deep understanding of the current legal and regulatory landscape, scientific literature, plaintiffs’ tactics, and market trends across industries. Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice has that knowledge, depth, and breadth. Companies and their governing boards seek our counsel because we provide thoughtful, seamless, business-centered advice for multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional matters that reflects our deep understanding of our clients’ business objectives and industries, the most recent legal developments, and our constant monitoring of medical and scientific literature. Harnessing our firm’s global resources, Greenberg Traurig can expeditiously assemble the right team for complex compliance, regulatory, and litigation matters. Further recognizing the importance of collaboration, our attorneys have vetted and developed a network of scientists, physicians, economists, accountants, engineers, appraisers, historians, and other subject matter experts who play a crucial role in defending our clients.

Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice has the added advantage of having a number of former U.S. federal and state prosecutors and officials and other senior positions at government agencies such as the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services. With first-hand knowledge of how government agencies conduct investigations and prosecutions, we help clients navigate these processes efficiently and effectively.

The Complex Torts Practice also works in partnership with the Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice, a multidisciplinary group that operates as an integral trial boutique within the firm’s 700+ lawyer Litigation Practice. These trial lawyers have substantial first-chair experience in sophisticated high-stakes cases, including complex torts, in both state and federal courts, with the team vigorously representing client interests in courtrooms throughout the United States.