Over the past several years, Shook, Hardy & Bacon was the first chair defense for Philip Morris, the country’s largest cigarette manufacturer, in 27 of its 39 Engle progeny trials. Miami managing partner William P. Geraghty was the first chair in 17 of them.
Currently the firm is defending Philip Morris USA in more than 3,000 Florida smoking cases by 8,000 plaintiffs who sued individually after the state high court decertified a statewide class action. The decertification provides that certain findings from the Engle class action are binding on the defendants, provided that the plaintiffs are class members. Other Florida-based Shook Hardy attorneys who are first chair are Kenneth J. Reilly, Frank Cruz-Alvarez and Dan Molony.
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