Born:

• Baltimore, Maryland, 1948
  

Education:

• University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., magna cum laude, 1980)
  
• Southwestern University School of Law (J.D. cum laude, 1983)
  

Admissions:

• California, 1983
• U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1984
  
• District of Columbia, 1987
  
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 1991
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 1991
  
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2002
  
• U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 2004
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2007
  

Member:

• State Bar of California
• The District of Columbia Bar
  
• Plaintiff Trial Team, 1991-1992, Ford Motor Company School Bus Crash, Carrollton, Kentucky, 1988
  
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Surfrider Foundation, Malibu Chapter

Lectures/Speeches:

• “Secret Pharmaceutical Company Documents Obtained in Litigation:
  Revelations and Release in the Interest of Public Health”
  “Selling Sickness” International Conference Hosted by Healthy Skepticism (Netherlands),
  October 7-8, 2010

Awards and Honors:

• AV® 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated through Martindale Hubbell
• Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
• Who's Who in the World
  
• Who's Who in American Law

Published Cases:

• Motus v. Pfizer, Inc. 127 F.Supp.2d 1085 (C.D. Cal. 2000)
  
• Cartwright v. Pfizer, Inc. 369 F.Supp.2d 876 (E.D. Tex. 2005)
• Zikis v. Pfizer, Inc. Case No. 04 C 8104, 2005 WL 1126909 (N.D. Ill. 2005)
• Witczak v. Pfizer, Inc. 377 F.Supp.2d 726 (D. Minn. 2005)
• Tucker v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 596 F.Supp.2d 1225 (S.D.Ind. 2008) (granting plaintiff's motion for reconsideration and holding that plaintiff's claims are not preempted by federal law)
• Knipe v.SmithKline Beecham, 583 F.Supp.2d 553 (E.D.Pa 2008) (holding that plaintiffs' claims are not preempted by federal law)
• Knipe v. SmithKline Beecham, 583 F.Supp.2d 602 (E.D.Pa. 2008) (holding that a drug manufacturer owes a duty to warn regarding risks associated with off-label uses and allowing plaintiffs' claims for compensatory and  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)
• Tucker v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 701 F.Supp.2d 1040 (S.D.Ind.2010) (denying defendant’s learned intermediary defense and further allowing plaintiffs’ experts to testify regarding the causal association between antidepressants and increased suicidal behavior)

Practice Areas:

• Class Actions
• Complex and Multi-District Litigation
• Consumer Litigation
• Personal Injury
• Pharmaceutical Drug Liability
• Wrongful Death Law