Best Lawyers in Tennessee, United States for Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

John (Jack) T. Reese has been practicing law in Nashville and throughout the state of Tennessee since 1993. He focuses his practice areas on litigation, primarily professional liability/healthcare liability for medical providers and institutions, product liability, premises liability, and general insurance defense. He has also handled multiple personal injury cases in other areas including personal injury, wrongful death, drug and medical device litigation, and probate matters. Mr. Reese was ...

Eric Hudson focuses his practice on the defense of mass tort litigation for pharmaceutical, medical device and other product manufacturers. He has extensive experience defending federal multidistrict litigation and state court consolidated litigation throughout the United States. He has served as lead counsel for manufacturers in nationwide MDLs as well as nationwide coordinating counsel in a number of mass torts. Eric also has an extensive settlement practice throughout the United States, an...

Alan Easterly is an Equity Member of Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC. He practices out of the firm's Chattanooga, Tennessee office. His practice concentrates on transportation, product liability (including food liability), complex/ mass torts, insurance, premises liability, auto liability, construction, and general negligence matters. He has managed, tried, or otherwise successfully defended numerous significant product liability, transportation, toxic tort, and complex tort c...

Paul Rosenblatt is a litigation partner in the Nashville office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Paul’s practice focuses on representing manufacturers in high-stakes product liability and mass tort litigation. He has played a key role in leading the national expert teams for some of the largest and most complex mass torts and MDLs in the country, including surgical mesh, military earplugs and PFAS. In addition to leading national expert teams, he has extensive experience preparing, presenti...

Mr. Fraser has provided many years of defense litigation for clients in various areas, including general liability, premises and products liability, employment, insurance disputes and professional errors and omissions claims. He has successfully litigated matters ranging from complex, multiple-party suits in products liability, wrongful death and subrogation matters. He is an Equity Member of the firm located in the firm's Knoxville office and also serves as the firm's Managing Member.

Mr. Dement is an AV rated attorney through Martindale-Hubbell and has that special combination of skill of being both an advocate and a counselor. Not only has he served as a litigator for approximately 29 years, he has advised many clients over the years in business, transactional, and financial matters. Prior to law school, Mr. Dement received a masters degree in business administration with a concentration in corporate finance. His training has given him unique insight into the problems hi...

Taylor A. Williams received his undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Tennessee, graduating with honors. He received his law degree from The University of Tennessee College of Law in 2009, graduating with high honors. In law school, Taylor’s case commentary was published in school’s business law journal. Since joining the firm, Taylor has over ten years of complex litigation practice, focusing on commercial disputes and defense of products liability actions in ...

Al is a trial lawyer and adviser to Spicer Rudstrom’s business and insurance clients who focuses on civil litigation. As someone who has always enjoyed a challenge, pursuing a legal career, where he is able to find solutions to the issues facing his clients, seemed to be a perfect fit. He is most passionate about providing top-quality legal services and obtaining the best possible results for his clients. Al obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Virgini...

Kevin is a Member of Spicer Rudstrom’s Board of Directors and the Managing Member of the firm’s Memphis Office. His practice areas include tort liability defense, including catastrophic personal cases, trucking, and transportation cases, construction defect litigation, along with complex litigation. He is the Chair of the firm’s Construction, Construction Defect. He has received an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Logan Klauss is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants. Logan, who practices law in Memphis, Tennessee, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Logan is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Ben represents clients across all industries on both regulatory compliance and litigation matters. Ben regularly advises clients on compliance with state, federal, and international data privacy and security laws, such as CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, PIPEDA, COPPA, HIPAA, CAN-SPAM, FCRA, TCPA, CPA, UCPA, CTDPA, VCDPA, data breach notification laws, and other U.S. and international privacy and data security requirements. Ben also assists clients with incident response plans, tabletop exercises, privacy po...

Katelyn is a member of Butler Snow’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare group. Her practice is focused on the representation and defense of manufacturers in complex products liability litigation in state and federal courts, with an emphasis on prescription drugs, medical devices, and chemicals. She was a member of the Motions Team in the largest MDL in history and has experience in various other aspects of discovery and trial work, including drafting company discovery respons...

Kendell Garrett Vonckx is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants. Kendell Garrett, who practices law in Knoxville, Tennessee, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Kendell Garrett is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.