Established 1870
Tel: +1 (205) 521 8000
Website: www.bradley.com
Number of partners: 303
Number of lawyers: 538
Practice Areas: Financial Services • Bankruptcy • Construction • Litigation • Healthcare • Insurance • Antitrust • Appellate • Intellectual Property • Labor and Employment • Life Sciences • Government Enforcement • General Commercial • Securities • Tax
Office Locations: • Birmingham AL • Charlotte NC • Dallas TX • Houston TX • Huntsville AL • Jackson MS • Montgomery AL • Nashville TN • Tampa FL • Washington D .C.
Bradley’s Life Sciences team has a global perspective and deep trial experience in some of the most challenging jurisdictions in the United States. Our attorneys counsel and defend clients involved in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, molecular testing services, drug delivery systems, clinical labs (CLIA), genomic labs, bioinformatics, genomic medical clinics, research institutions, contract research organizations, animal sciences, plant sciences and healthcare. We serve as international, national, regional, and statewide counsel across the full spectrum of litigation and risk management, including high-stakes individual matters, complex multidistrict litigation, and cross-border concerns requiring coordinated novel legal strategies. Our attorneys combine legal experience and knowledge with a sophisticated understanding of the life sciences industry to develop practical, strategic solutions specifically tailored to our clients’ business goals.
In addition to our life sciences efforts, Bradley frequently serves as national coordinating, regional, and statewide counsel for business clients around the world, offering a full suite of legal services in dozens of industries and practice areas, including:
Affordable Housing and Community Development | Antitrust and Competition | Appellate
Banking & Financial Services
| • Anti-Money Laundering • Auto Finance • Broker-Dealer and Investment Adviser • Commercial Lending • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) • Payment Systems • Examinations and CIDs under Litigation • Small Dollar and Unsecured Consumer Lending • Licensing and Examinations • Privacy, Security and Innovation • Regulatory Compliance • Reverse Mortgages • Title Insurance Claims and Title Defect Curative • Vendor Management |
Cannabis | Class Actions | Construction
Corporate and Securities
| • Capital Markets and Corporate Finance • Emerging Growth Companies • Mergers and Acquisitions • Private Companies • Private Equity • Public Companies • Public Finance • Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance • Venture Capital |
Cybersecurity and Privacy | Economic Development | Emerging Growth Companies
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation | Energy | Environmental Law
Food, Beverage and Hospitality | Franchise and Distribution | Government Contracts | Government Enforcement and Investigations | Governmental Affairs
Healthcare
| • ACOs, Value-Based Payments, and Managed Care • Ambulatory Surgery, Outpatient Imaging and Other Outpatient Services • Certificate of Need • Clinical Research • M&A and Joint Ventures • Home Health and Hospice • Hospitals and Health Systems • Medical Staff Issues • Nonprofit and Tax-exempt Issues • Post-Acute and Long Term Care • Regulatory Compliance |
Insurance
| • ERISA Litigation • Life, Health and Disability Litigation • Policyholder Insurance Coverage • Regulatory/Corporate/ Government Relations |
Intellectual Property
| • Copyrights • International and Cross Border • Patents and Patent Litigation • Technology Transactions |
Labor and Employment
• Immigration
Life Sciences
| • Food and Agriculture Litigation and Regulatory • Life Sciences Litigation |
Litigation
| • Complex Business Litigation • Electronic Data and Discovery • Environmental & Toxic Tort Litigation • Healthcare Litigation • Managed Care Litigation • Medical Malpractice • Product Liability |
Media and Entertainment | Public Finance | Retail
Real Estate
| • Commercial Leasing • Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Property • Institutional Investment • Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions • Real Estate Finance and Development • Zoning and Land Use |
Tax | Telecommunications and Utilities | Trusts and Estates
Last Updated September 2019
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Product Liability
| Lawyer | Section | Practice Area | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boney, Lindsey | Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement | Product Liability | Birmingham |
| Haston, Tripp | Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement | Product Liability | Birmingham |
| Hollabaugh, Lela | Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement | Product Liability | Nashville |
| Hymer, David | Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement | White-Collar/Govt. Investigations | Birmingham |
| Lumsden, Dana | Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement | Product Liability | Charlotte |
| Martin, Kimberly | Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement | Product Liability | Huntsville |
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Non-IP Litigation & Enforcement
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Headquartered in Birmingham with additional offices across the southeast, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings is a full-service law firm with a growing national reputation. The firm offers litigation services to a variety of clients in the life sciences industry, with a particular emphasis on product liability cases.
Leading the firm's representation of companies in the industry is Lindsey Boney, who has been involved in several high-profile cases involving major pharmaceutical clients. Boney served as lead counsel for Bayer in a number of lawsuits involving the drug Xarelto, leading the strategy and legal briefing team. Kim Martin is another star who worked alongside Boney in the Bayer case, leading the discovery team. Martin and Boney are also active for Pfizer as national counsel in a set of litigations claims of injury connected to use of the client’s anti-arrhythmic drug Cordarone.
Tripp Haston is based in the firm's office in Birmingham and is highly regarded for his defense of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in numerous matters. In addition to his active practice in the products space, Haston was also recently active for Hospira in a commercial arbitration, and PRA Health Sciences in a breach of contract suit. He is also active as a lead partner on the Xarelto and Cordarone product liability matters. Haston was shortlisted for the Product Liability Attorney of the Year award in 2020 for his activity in the area.
Additional standout practitioners in the firm’s life sciences litigation group are Lela Hollabaugh, David Hymer and Dana Lumsden.