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Joe G. Hollingsworth
| Partner Hollingsworth LLP Washington, DC Mr. Hollingsworth is a nationally renowned courtroom advocate who specializes in trials and appeals. While running an eighty-lawyer law firm, he defends complex cases involving pharmaceutical and medical device product liability, toxic and environmental torts, and prosecutes and defends federal claims involving the government. He has been honored three times by The National Law Journal for the year’s Top Ten Defense Wins, and over 100 opinions arising from his cases are published in the federal and state reporters. He has conducted over twenty jury trials on behalf of corporate defendants and has argued in the United States Supreme Court, in most U.S. Circuit courts, and in many state supreme courts and intermediate appellate courts. For over twenty years, Mr. Hollingsworth has served as lead national counsel for major pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers in the defense of serial toxic product claims involving thousands of claimants and various pharmaceutical and chemical products. Mr. Hollingsworth handles both high-stakes individual cases and massive serial litigation. He recently served as lead trial counsel for Norfolk Southern involving a train derailment and chlorine release, the largest single tort case in South Carolina history and one of the largest tort cases recently tried anywhere, in which the parties agreed to a confidential settlement in April 2008 following one month of an anticipated three-month trial. Avondale Mills v. Norfolk Southern, Civ. No. 1:05-2817-MBS (D.S.C. 2005). Mr. Hollingsworth conducted the first jury trial in the country involving allegations that hernia repair mesh—used in approximately 700,000 hernia surgeries per year in the U.S. alone—can cause infertility, securing a unanimous defense verdict after 58 minutes of deliberation. In 1997, Mr. Hollingsworth tried and won the first case alleging that the drug Parlodel could cause serious cerebrovascular events in new mothers, in a case that had substantial pretrial publicity including being featured on the NBC show “NOW”. Mr. Hollingsworth has been lead counsel in numerous MDLs, serial litigations, and mass torts, and currently is lead counsel for defendants in the Aredia/Zometa MDL (leading cancer therapy drugs). Mr. Hollingsworth is also currently defending claims brought by 3,200 Ecuadorans claiming personal injury and property damage from drug interdiction spraying with glyphosate (Roundup) that is being conducted in Colombia by a firm client at the behest of the Republic of Columbia and the U.S. State Department. Mr. Hollingsworth frequently lectures about litigation strategies in complex litigation. He is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Chamber Litigation Center's Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee, a group that helps the Chamber select appropriate cases for amicus participation in the highest appellate courts in the country. He has appeared frequently on behalf of the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and Northwestern Law’s Searle Center as a lecturer in federal and state judge education workshops and related seminars. He is also a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council, an elite group of the most experienced and talented product liability defense attorneys in the nation, a board member of the Atlantic Legal Foundation, a member of the Defense Research Institute, the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, and a board member of the Council for Court Excellence, a nonprofit organization working to improve the administration of justice in local and federal courts. |
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