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Rob is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School. For the past 25 years he has been a corporate litigator at Patterson Belknap, defending prescription drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, food products and consumer appliances for domestic and global clients at the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Wilson currently serves as…

A Federal District Court in New York denied the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and granted summary judgment in favor of our client. The court agreed with our client’s arguments on all points when it denied the plaintiff’s motion to strike affirmative defenses from the answer and dismissed the quantum meruit and theft of intellectual…

A Federal District Court in South Carolina accepted our argument that our client, a corporation, had no duty under the facts presented to supervise the off-duty use of a company car and company telephone by an employee involved in a fatal collision with two bicyclists. The court also granted summary judgment on one plaintiff’s survival…

In a construction case involving a brain-damaged MTA worker, the Bronx Supreme Court accepted our evidence that our client was not responsible for the site and found that no further discovery was required before granting the motion.

Working closely with Boston local counsel Pete Durney and James Kerr, we successfully persuaded the trial court to exclude the testimony of plaintiff’s sole liability expert on the grounds that his opinions were based upon mere conjecture, surmise and speculation which would not assist a jury. This is a potentially case-determinative blow to plaintiff’s electrocution,…

The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing our client, an electrical products manufacturer, based upon the plaintiff’s inadequate product identification. Bob Littleton worked with our local counsel, Jim Carlson of Christian & Smalls in Birmingham, to secure this result.

Romelia Leach represented Littleton Joyce Ughetta Park & Kelly at this year’s DRI Diversity Conference in Chicago. We are committed to the principles of diversity, and this annual conference affords us the opportunity to stay on the cutting edge of developing issues, network with other similarly diverse law firms and increase our efforts to retain…

Rebecca Ulisse defends clients against claims of defect, breach of warranty, violation of general business laws and various commercial issues on a local and national basis. Prior to joining the firm, she regularly engaged in high stakes dispute resolution, regulatory, license, trademark and joint venture contractual compliance, government investigations and risk assessment analysis on behalf…

Our client, the distributor of an industrial paper plate press, was sued in connection with personal injuries allegedly sustained by the machine’s operator. Although the distributor had made subsequent modifications to the machine, we secured dismissal of our client by successfully demonstrating that the modifications were not causally related to the alleged injuries.

Working closely with our local counsel, Jim Carlson and Chris Berdy of Christian & Small, LLP, we secured the dismissal of our client in an underground mining accident on the basis that plaintiff’s claim against our client was unsupported by competent evidence. Another client was granted summary judgment in a steel-making equipment fatality on the…