National Coordinating Counsel
At Miles & Stockbridge, we’ve built a first-class reputation as national coordinating counsel for the world’s manufacturing leaders—our active roster features more than 15 Fortune 500 companies—facing complex, multijurisdictional product liability and mass tort litigation.
Our lawyers combine decades of comprehensive legal experience and acumen with the critical insights and assistance derived from a global network of experts and local counsel to deliver results—and unique value—to our clients, often in some of the most challenging jurisdictions in the United States.
We are committed to tailored approaches and strategies that fit the situational needs and desired business outcomes of our clients, rather than “one-size-fits-all,” cookie-cutter tactics. Our differentiating strength as a practice is derived from this ability to adapt in scale and strategy to fit the case at hand, the sophistication of our collaborative approach, and the deep, top-to-bottom understanding of a client’s product and business, all which we employ in their defense.
We believe there is a misperception that hiring a so-called “national” or “international” firm with offices throughout the country delivers the most efficient “one-stop-shop,” a misperception that sometimes confuses value with convenience. Such models have their place, but—in the arena of mass tort and product liability litigation—often result in the client being locked into a particular lawyer network (within the national firm), at a higher rate structure, with a team not necessarily best-suited to handle their needs or case.
We have worked closely with product manufacturers, distributors and retailers for decades. We know how our clients research, develop, design, manufacture, market and distribute products, and we understand how these stages of a product lifecycle can impact a product liability claim—and how a product liability claim can impact each stage of that lifecycle. Our roster of sophisticated clients come back to us time and again with their most important and challenging product liability and mass tort cases because they trust us to control and eliminate company-threatening litigation. And they trust us to win trials.
