Michael L. Kidney

Representative experience

Won dismissal of defendants from consolidated nationwide consumer class action involving over-the-counter pharmaceutical products.

Successful representation of university in a putative class action filed by current students that resulted in the lawsuit becoming a single plaintiff case.

Represented university client in connection with allegedly negligent protocol design and purportedly insufficient informed consent process.

Represented university client in connection with incomplete informed consent notice delivered to clinical trial participants.

Won the outright dismissal, at the motion to dismiss stage, of nearly a dozen consumer class actions targeting automotive OEMs.

Secured a very favorable MDL class action settlement for an automotive OEM targeted with more than 54 consumer class actions.

Secured an important ruling that a California state consumer protection statute did not apply to a foreign parent corporation.

Secured an unprecedented 50 percent reduction in lodestar in connection with a favorable settlement in a MDL consumer class action involving automotive companies.

Secured a favorable settlement in an automotive consumer class action involving remedy limited to class members residing in certain states.

Serves as national product liability counsel to one of the largest providers of allografts in the country.

Served as national product liability counsel for a major biologics company faced with numerous lawsuits.

Served as national coordinating counsel to a major automotive manufacturer for all preemption issues.

One of several firm lawyers who served for many years as national coordinating counsel to a major automotive manufacture for product liability claims.

Served as a member of the national trial team for an automotive manufacturer that handled all trials and binding arbitrations involving air bags.