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Ramon Rossi Lopez

Lopez McHugh LLP
Ramon Rossi Lopez has extensive trial experience in all areas of civil litigation involving personal injury, including complex mass torts, catastrophic disasters, medical malpractice, and product liability actions. He has represented thousands of clients in mass tort cases, primarily against the giant pharmaceutical industry involving dangerous/defective drugs/devices'

Mr. Lopez was named the 2004 “Top Gun Products Liability/Mass Tort Lawyer” of the Year by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, and was awarded the following peer reviewed honors:

  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUPER LAWYERS FOR THE FAMILY AND CONSUMER, 2007-2010
  • LAWDRAGON TOP 500 IN AMERICA, 2006
  • SUPER LAWYERS, ORANGE COUNTY, 2004-2010
  • SUPER LAWYERS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 2006-2010
  • TOP LAWYERS IN ORANGE COUNTY, 2006
  • AMERICAN ACADEMY OF BARRISTERS, FELLOW, 2003-Present
  • TOP 100 TRIAL LAWYERS, AMERICAN TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, 2007-2010

Ramon, together with other members of his former firm, from 2000 to the present, have negotiated and resolved several thousand individual product liability cases involving pharmaceuticals such as Diet Drugs (Fen-Phen), Rezulin, Propulsid, Baycol, PPA, Dexatrim, Ephedra, Zyvox, and Zyprexa.

Mr. Lopez has just recently in 2007 formed his new law partnership, the consumer litigation firm of LOPEZ McHUGH LLP. The firm has offices in Philadelphia, PA and Newport Beach, CA, and Moorestown, NJ, with co-counsel and affiliated law firms in several other states.

Lawyer Bio

Ramon Rossi Lopez has extensive trial experience in all areas of civil litigation involving personal injury, including complex mass torts, catastrophic disasters, medical malpractice, and product liability actions. He has represented thousands of clients in mass tort cases, primarily against the giant pharmaceutical industry involving dangerous/defective drugs/devices'

Mr. Lopez was named the 2004 “Top Gun Products Liability/Mass Tort Lawyer” of the Year by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, and was awarded the following peer reviewed honors:

  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUPER LAWYERS FOR THE FAMILY AND CONSUMER, 2007-2010
  • LAWDRAGON TOP 500 IN AMERICA, 2006
  • SUPER LAWYERS, ORANGE COUNTY, 2004-2010
  • SUPER LAWYERS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 2006-2010
  • TOP LAWYERS IN ORANGE COUNTY, 2006
  • AMERICAN ACADEMY OF BARRISTERS, FELLOW, 2003-Present
  • TOP 100 TRIAL LAWYERS, AMERICAN TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, 2007-2010

Ramon, together with other members of his former firm, from 2000 to the present, have negotiated and resolved several thousand individual product liability cases involving pharmaceuticals such as Diet Drugs (Fen-Phen), Rezulin, Propulsid, Baycol, PPA, Dexatrim, Ephedra, Zyvox, and Zyprexa.

Mr. Lopez has just recently in 2007 formed his new law partnership, the consumer litigation firm of LOPEZ McHUGH LLP. The firm has offices in Philadelphia, PA and Newport Beach, CA, and Moorestown, NJ, with co-counsel and affiliated law firms in several other states.

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Education:

  • Loyola Marymount University, graduated 1978

Bar Admissions:

  • California, The State Bar of California

Affiliations:

  • The American Trial Lawyers Association - Board Member
  • American Association for Justice - Sustaining Member
  • International Barristers - Fellow

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
 

Awards:

  • Top 500 Trial Lawyers in America
  • Top 100 Trial Lawyer (The ATLA)
  • Super Lawyers (2005-2010)
  • Mass Tort Trial Lawyer of the Year

Areas of Expertise:

  • Mass Tort
  • Plaintiffs
 

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Firm Details

Lopez McHugh LLP
http://lopezmchugh.com
 
Headquarters
100 Bayview Circle, Suite 5600
Newport Beach, CA 92660
(949) 737.1501
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3 Office Locations
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New Jersey

New Jersey

Moorestown, NJ

214 Flynn Avenue

Moorestown, NJ 08057

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(856) 273.8500

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Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

One International Plaza, Suite 550

Philadelphia, PA 19113

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(215) 952.6910

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Lawyer Case History

Gadolinium Litigation

  • Plaintiff''s Steering Committee (MDL)
  • National State-Federal Liaison Counsel
  • Negotiation team
  • Co-lead/discovery chair - Mallinckrodt Defendant
  • Lead trial counsel (100+ cases throughout country in both state and federal courts)

Halliburton Convoy Litigation

  • Represent 7 families for wrongful death and 11 personal injuries of former truck drivers working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq, killed/injured on April 9, 2004

Ketek Litigation

  • Lead trial counsel (51 clients)
  • Depositions taken in multiple state of primary defense witnesses
  • Co-lead negotiator in unprecedented liver injury pharmaceutical litigation on behalf of 51 clients

Zyprexa Litigation

  • Plaintiffs Steering Committee 
  • Chair of National Discovery Committee
  • Co-lead Negotiator of $700,000,000 Global settlement
  • Lead trial counsel in 1950 cases which settled for a total of $200,000,000

Diet Drugs (Fen-Phen) Litigation

Co-chair of Discovery Committee (MDL); and co-lead counsel in California Coordinated Proceedings. Participation in global settlement negotiations of individual cases in excess of $500,000,000.