United States • Dispute resolution
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Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport

Bowman and Brooke LLP

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Bowman and Brooke LLP is a leading defense firm for the motor vehicle industry, serving as lead and national counsel in high-profile product liability and mass tort cases. The firm represents major automotive manufacturers, including BMW, Ford, GM, Honda, Tesla, Toyota, and Volkswagen. The practice also often advise on electric vehicle litigation and defend companies involved in autonomous partnerships such as Waymo and Motional, frequently defending cases involving advanced vehicle technology, including autonomous systems, airbag control, electronic stability control, and other crash avoidance technologies. Phoenix based Paul Cereghini is nationally recognized as a trial lawyer, regularly serving as lead trial counsel in high-stakes product liability and mass tort cases. He has defended Honda, Hyundai, Kia, and Ford in their most challenging litigations, securing critical defense verdicts in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. San Jose based Vincent Galvin is a seasoned first-chair trial lawyer with great experience, serving as lead counsel to Toyota and Tesla, including Toyota’s high-profile unintended acceleration bellwether trial and Tesla’s first U.S. automotive product liability trial. Columbia based Joel Smith is a veteran litigator specializing in high-exposure product liability defense, and currently serves as lead trial counsel for Tesla, handling its most significant product liability cases.
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Témoignages

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  • 'Bowman and Brooke is and has been specialised in product liability defense and is invested in learning emerging technologies in order to properly strategize defending them and standing up for them in court.'
  • 'Bowman and Brooke are adept at educating judges and jurors on their clients' products and technologies to make it digestible.'
  • 'When the rubber meets the road they are ready to bring the fight.'
  • 'Joel Smith is far and away the best outside counsel we work with. He is personally invested in our company, products and successes and it shows'.

Clients clés

  • Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
  • Ford Motor Company
  • Honda North America, Inc.
  • Stellantis/FCA US LLC
  • Nissan North America, Inc.
  • Hyundai Motor America
  • Kia America, Inc.
  • BMW AG
  • Mercedes-Benz USA
  • Tesla, Inc.

Points forts

  • National automotive product liability counsel to Toyota Motor North America, Inc. as their lead counsel and largest provider of automotive product liability defense counsel in the United States.
  • Representing BMW as product liability counsel, responsible for all technical and product related issues, involved in defense of BMW in the “cheat devices” class action Hu v. BMW.
  • Lead counsel in multiple mass actions for Ford Motor Company, including their DPS6 transmission, 10R80 transmission class action and 6F35 transmission.

Avocats

Hall of Fame

Avocats au sommet de leur profession, largement reconnus et respectés par l'ensemble du marché pour leur expertise éprouvée et leur intervention récurrente et longue date dans les dossiers les plus complexes et prestigieux.

Responsable de la pratique

Paul Cereghini, Vincent Galvin, Joel Smith