Freehills - Litigation - Product Liability

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Overview
The Freehills Product Liability practice specialises in liability issues with respect to products and financial services in the context of both general and mass tort litigation.

Our product and financial services liability expertise covers two fields of key competency:

financial services product liability
- shareholder class actions
- securities liability
- regulatory, compliance issues and corporate governance matters
product liability and class actions
- general common law exposures and mass tort litigation
- product marketing and misrepresentation law
- product recalls business interruption/catastrophe management
- product extortion
- medical device liability
- criminal exposures
- insurance, indemnity and risk management solutions.

Our distinctive approach to dispute resolution generally, and product and financial services liability in particular, is reflected in what we call total dispute management. We recognise the potential risk to a client's reputation and business and are conscious of and responsive to the difficult commercial sensitivities that face companies presented with product and financial services liability exposure.

Freehills has established a dedicated product liability group designed to help clients in managing the risks associated with product and financial services liability and to handle complex liability and class action litigation and other mass claims to which clients may be exposed.

Freehills has over 40 product liability experts located nationally and has advised and represented clients in some of the most significant and complex product liability and mass tort cases in Australia.

Our product liability team includes not only dedicated product liability and mass tort litigation experts, but also:

intellectual property experts, who are concerned wtih the laws that affect packaging, labelling, advertising and promotion of products
financial services experts, who can advise on product liability aspects of the financial services industry
specialists in class action procedure, including both the federal and state class action mechanisms
risk management experts, trained in responding effectively and efficiently to product-related crises.

We also recognise the important role of insurance in product liability and recall matters. Our product liability team includes insurance experts who can liaise with a client's insurers in a constructive yet sensitive manner.

Our team can also call upon public relations and human resources experts if required.

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