Full-service law firm Thompson Hine is equipped with a team of litigators routinely sought out by clients to handle their most complex product liability and business disputes. With offices in Georgia, Illinois, DC, and New York, along with a significant footprint in Ohio featuring four distinct locations, Thompson Hine has developed a reputation for exemplary representation and success. A client describes the firm’s bench of litigators as, “subject matter experts who provide extremely responsive communication, client services, and trial advocacy.” The same client shares their praise for Atlanta-based partner
Marla Butler. “Marla is a superb strategist and partner to our company,” notes the client. “She and her team work harder, smarter, and more efficiently than most other firms I deal with. Marla has a mastery of IP law and related issues, and she is a delight to deal with. Marla is humble, open to creative ways of solving problems, and is an authentically terrific person.”
Cleveland-based product liability litigator
Elizabeth ‘Missy’ Wright is national counsel for a major automotive manufacturer in separate cases related to alleged defective products.
Timothy Coughlin is a fellow Cleveland partner who chairs the mass & toxic tort group and leads chemical industry group. In a recent case, he utilized his industry knowledge in developing expert opinions.
William Hubbard focuses on the construction industry, representing a wide variety of clients. He defends Elliott Bay Design Group, a naval engineer and architect firm, in a lawsuit alleging that they improperly designed a new ferry boat for Miller Boat Line. The plaintiff sought over $4 million in repair costs and lost income. Hubbard brought a third-party claim against the shipyard that built the vessel. The case challenges whether Ohio’s anti-indemnification statute applies to the construction of a vessel.
Dayton-based Christine Haaker serves as the vice-chair of the group for the office. Haaker has served as defense counsel to several high-profile entities in numerous business disputes.
Anthony White serves on the Executive Committee while maintaining a practice involving class actions, most notably on behalf of a freight transportation company.
In the group’s DC office,
Eric Heyer has emerged as one of the office’s leading litigators with a growing expertise in the growing nicotine vaping industry. Heyer represents
Wages & White Lion Investments (d/b/a Triton Distribution) in a rare petition for rehearing en banc granted by the Fifth Circuit. The case involves a marketing denial order (MDO) issued by the FDA against a group of flavored marketing products under the Administrative Procedure Act. In 2021, prior to the latest petition for rehearing, the Fifth Circuit stayed the MDO and published an opinion finding that the FDA acted arbitrarily and capriciously. However, in July 2022, a different three-judge panel upheld the FDA’s actions in a 2-1 vote. The case is similar to pending cases in the Second and Ninth Circuits, and one Heyer won at the Eleventh Circuit in August 2022.
