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Nicholas J. Drakulich Esq. - San Diego, CA

2727 Camino Del Rio SouthSuite 322 San Diego, CA 92108

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Updated: 09/27/2019

San Diego Products liability Lawyer

About Nicholas J. Drakulich Esq.

Practice Areas

  • Products liability
  • Personal injury/wrongful death
  • Professional negligence
  • Business litigation/fraud
  • Insurance claims practices/bad faith
  • Mass torts (MDLs)
  • Real estate litigation

Current Employment Position(s)

  • Founding partner

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

  • Nevada, 1979
  • California, 1981
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court District of Nevada

Other Affiliations

  • The State Bar of California
  • The State Bar of Nevada
  • The Federal Bar Association (Sustaining member)
  • American Association for Justice
  • Consumer Attorneys of California
  • The National Trial Lawyers
  • The Association of Business Trial Lawyers of America
  • The Million Dollar Advocates Forum
  • The Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
  • Best of the US
  • Strathmore's Who's Who (Lifetime member)
  • Western Trial Lawyers Association

Education

  • California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, 1978
    J.D.
  • University of Southern California, 1975
    B.A.
    Honors: cum laude

Classes and Seminars

  • Preemption of Devices & Drugs: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, HarrisMartin’s MDL Conference: Transvaginal Mesh and ACTOS Litigation, 2012 - Present
  • The Cutting Edge of ESI Protocols – Predictive Coding & Concepts Searching, HarrisMartin’s MDL Conference: Pradaxa, Zoloft, Actors, Yaz and Everything MDL, 2012 - Present
  • Who Is Paying Your Doctor? – The Learned Intermediary Doctrine, HarrisMartin’s MDL Conference: Hot Topics in the MDL and Class Action Litigation, 2012 - Present
  • Bard IVC Filter, HarrisMartin Symposium: All Things Mass Tort, 2012 - Present
  • Professionalism in the Complex Litigation Landscape: Perspectives from the Bench and Bar, 12th Annual Class Action/Complex Litigation Symposium, 2012 - Present
  • Preemption/Mensing, HarrisMartin’s MDL Conference: Zimmer NexGen Knee and DePuy Hip Implant Litigation, 2011 - Present
  • Past Claims and Pending Litigation, HarrisMartin’s Darvon and Hip Implant Litigation Conference: New Developments in These Emerging Mass Torts, 2011 - Present
  • Past Claims and Pending Litigation, HarrisMartin’s Darvon and Darvocet Recall Litigation Conference, 2011 - Present
  • Toyota Recall, Toyota Recall Litigation Conference Part 2, 2010 - Present
  • Daubert’s Application in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation, Scientific Evidence:Daubert, DNA & More, 2010 - Present
  • Preemption Presentation, 10th Annual Class Action/Mass Tort Symposium, 2010 - Present
  • Preemption: What Survives, Where Are We Headed and What’s the Difference?, 9th Annual Class Action/Mass Tort Symposium, 2009 - Present
  • Preemption: What Survives and Where Are We Headed? A Timely Jurisprudential and Legislative Update, 8th Annual Class Action/Mass Tort Symposium, 2008 - Present
  • Heart Device Litigation – Guidance/Medtronic at St. Jude Heart Devices, Mealey’s Drug and Medical Device, 2007 - Present

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Included on the 2025 San Diego Super Lawyers list


Past Lists

  • 2024 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2023 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2022 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2021 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2020 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2019 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2018 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2017 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2016 San Diego Super Lawyers list
  • 2015 San Diego Super Lawyers list

View the profile for Nicholas J. Drakulich on Super Lawyers

Honors

  • AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®

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Office Information

Address

2727 Camino Del Rio SouthSuite 322 San Diego, CA 92108

Fax

  • (858) 755-6456

Publication

Representative Cases

  • In Re: HardiePlank Fiber Cement Siding Litigation, MDL No. 12-02359 (United States District Court, District of Minnesota)
  • In Re: Actos (Pioglitazone) Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 11- 2299 (United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana)
  • n Re: Medtronic, Inc., Sprint Fidelis Leads Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 08-1905 (United States District Court, District of Minnesota)
  • In Re: Guidant Corp. Implantable Defibrillators Products liability litigation, MDL No. 05-1708 (United States District Court, District of Minnesota
  • In Re: Medtronic, Inc. Implantable Defibrillators Products liability litigation, MDL No. 05-1726 (United States District Court, District of Minnesota

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