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KATE E. GILLESPIE KGillespie@BaumHedlundLaw.com Media Interview Request: RMcCall@BaumHedlundLaw.com Class Actions, Commercial Truck Accidents, Complex and Multi-District Litigation, Consumer Litigation, Lender Liability, Personal Injury, Pharmaceutical Drug Liability, Product Liability Law, Wrongful Death Law |
Dear Ms. Gillespie:
Congratulations on being listed as a “Rising Star” in the 2009 Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Stars Edition.
The collective success of our alumni resulted in Loyola being ranked #1 by the magazine among all law schools. We had 179 alumni listed as Southern California Rising Stars.
We are extremely proud of you and your accomplishments and view you as a shining example for our students to follow.
Sincerely,
Victor Gold
Fritz B. Burns Dean, Loyola Law School
Senior Vice President, Loyola Marymount University
Kate Gillespie is an associate attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman and focuses her practice on the firm's drug product liability cases, class action cases and commercial trucking accident cases. Her drug litigation includes cases involving birth defects related to antidepressant use and suicide in patients taking SSRIs. She earned a B.S. in Psychology at the University of Oregon and her law degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where she won the William M. Byrne, Sr. Trial Advocacy Competition. Ms. Gillespie was a volunteer law clerk at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, where she provided family law and domestic violence assistance to low-income families in Los Angeles. She also clerked at the Center for Conflict Resolution, where she provided negotiation and mediation services to low-income individuals in Los Angeles. She is admitted in California state and federal courts.
- Napa, California, 1974
- University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (B.S., Psychology, 1997)
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California (J.D., 2003)
- Dean's Honor List, 1996
- Byrne Trial Advocacy Competition Team, 2001-2002
- Winner of the 2003 William M. Byrne, Sr. Trial Advocacy Competition
- Law Clerk Harriett Buhai Law Center, Summer 2001
- Legal Intern Murchison & Cumming, 2002-2003
- California, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2005
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2005
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2008
- State Bar of California
- Women's Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Loyola Women's Law Association
- Counsel to Southern California Edison, 2003-2005
- Phi Alpha Delta
- Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles
Author:
- "Outsmarting the 'Learned-Intermediary Doctrine' Defense"
The Advocate
February 2010, pg 62
- Acquiring Immunity to the Learned Intermediary Defense
Toxics Law Reporter, Vol. 24, No. 20, BNA Insights – Bureau of National Affairs
May 20, 2010
- Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
- Selected to: Southern California Super Lawyers – Rising Star, 2008 - 2010
Published Cases:
- Knipe v.SmithKline Beecham, 583 F.Supp.2d 553 (E.D.Pa 2008) (Denying Defendant's motion for summary judgment and holding that plaintiffs' failure to warn claims are not preempted by the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act)
- Knipe v. SmithKline Beecham, 583 F.Supp.2d 602 (E.D.Pa. 2008) (Denying defendant's motion for summary judgment and holding that defendant had a duty to issue warnings regarding off-label uses and also allowing plaintiff's claims for punitive damages to proceed to the jury)
- Cunningham v. SmithKline Beecham, 255 F.R.D. 474 (N.D.Ind. 2009) (ordering defendant to produce documents and awarding sanctions)
- Forst v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 602 F.Supp.2d 960 (E.D.Wis. 2009) (denying defendant's motion for summary judgment; confirming that Wisconsin has not adopted the learned intermediary doctrine; and allowing all of plaintiffs' claims, including, negligence, fraud and punitive damages to proceed to the jury)
- Forst v. Smithkline Beecham Corp., 639 F.Supp.2d 948 (E.D.Wis.,2009) (denying defendant's motion for summary judgment and holding that plaintiffs' claims are not preempted by the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act)
- Dorsett v. Sandoz, Inc., __F.Supp.2d __, 2010 WL 1174204 (C.D.Cal. 2010)
- Assisted indigent clients in resolving landlord/tenant disputes, slander issues, neighbor relations and contract disputes while working at the Loyola Law School Center for Conflict Resolution, 1997
- Class Actions
- Commercial Truck Accidents
- Complex and Multi-District Litigation
- Consumer Litigation
- Lender Liability
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceutical Drug Liability
- Product Liability Law
- Wrongful Death Law