Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien & Courtney has extensive experience in the handling and administration of toxic tort and mass tort claims including personal injury and property damage, arising from lead paint exposure, pesticides, latex, silica and mold litigation.  We have been involved in the asbestos litigation on a national, regional and local level for more than 20 years.  We currently serve as National Coordinating Counsel to several different corporations.  In this role, we provide administrative, technical and trial support to local counsel throughout the country.  The firm has a dedicated group of professionals who are extremely familiar with the medical and legal issues of this rapidly changing litigation landscape.  We have incorporated technology into the management of voluminous files, records, documents and depositions.  As National Coordinating Counsel we have served as trial counsel in many different jurisdictions.

The firm also has an extremely active practice in the handling of asbestos claims in all of our offices.  We provide services to our clients on a regional basis from Washington, D.C. through New York.  We have served as regional trial counsel for many of our clients.  The regional approach allows us to assist our clients in  an efficient, cost effective manner.  We have had the opportunity to work with some of the recognized leading experts in the field of asbestos medicine and causation including pulmonologists, pathologists, industrial hygienists, toxicologists and epidemiologists.

Our firm has been selected by traditionally peripheral defendants to develop their defense strategy, select their expert witnesses, coordinate the testing of their products and work places and defend their interests at trial.  We are also heavily involved in diet drug litigation, as well as the ephedra litigation and benzene litigation.

In the Product Liability sector, Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien & Courtney defends claims of every nature.  Our experience ranges from cases involving consumer products, such as farm equipment to industrial chemicals.  We represent clients throughout the entire chain of production up to and including sale in claims involving defective design, defective manufacturing, warnings and post manufacture alterations.  In doing so, we have developed knowledge of experts in numerous disciplines to properly defend these claims.  Our experience allows us to handle these cases in an efficient and cost effective manner.  In addition, many of these cases require defense and indemnity obligations between different insurers and litigants.  We address all issues to insure that our clients are protected in every aspect of the claim.

We remain sensitive to every client’s particular situation including a diversity of defense goals: mediation, bench trials, jury trials, setting case law precedent with aggressive pretrial motion practice or maintaining a low profile in difficult jurisdictions on a case by case or entire docket basis.