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San Francisco Product Liability & Tort Litigation Lawyer
Overview
Peter Larson's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and product liability. He has defended single party, multiparty, and class action cases in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, tobacco products, food and beverages, industrial safety equipment, consumer electronics, and medical devices. He regularly handles unfair competition and deceptive trade practices claims under state and federal consumer protection statutes (including California's Section 17200)...
Peter Larson's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and product liability. He has defended single party, multiparty, and class action cases in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, tobacco products, food and beverages, industrial safety equipment, consumer electronics, and medical devices. He regularly handles unfair competition and deceptive trade practices claims under state and federal consumer protection statutes (including California's Section 17200)...
Peter Larson's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and product liability. He has defended single party, multiparty, and class action cases in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, tobacco products, food and beverages, industrial safety equipment, consumer electronics, and medical devices. He regularly handles unfair competition and deceptive trade practices claims under state and federal consumer protection statutes (including California's Section 17200). Peter appears in state and federal courts throughout the U.S. and frequently coordinates the defense for clients in multiparty actions with joint defense groups.
Peter has considerable knowledge in complex, emerging legal issues. These include regulation of consumer products and food, latent diseases, duties to warn, and class and representative actions. He works with a wide range of experts, including psychologists, epidemiologists, historians, and economists. Peter also advises on product recalls and crisis management and is a member of Jones Day's Product Recall & Accident Response Team. Representative clients in recent matters include Abbott Laboratories, Chevron, North Safety Products, R.J. Reynolds, San Francisco 49ers, Sherwin-Williams, Sutter Home Winery, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Peter serves as faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has lectured at seminars on trial tactics, expert witness development, discovery techniques, and persuasive legal writing. He also serves as the training partner for Jones Day's San Francisco Office. Peter is a director of the Upjohn Fund of San Francisco and has served as a committee chair and general counsel of The Guardsmen, a not-for-profit charitable organization supporting at-risk Bay Area youth.
About Peter N. Larson
Current Employment Position(s)
- Partner
Practice Areas
- Product Liability & Tort Litigation
- Trial Practice
- Product Response Team
- Class Action and Multidistrict Product Liability Litigation
- Business and Tort Litigation (USA)
Representative Cases
- Abbott Labs mounts nationwide defense against product liability suits involving antibacterial agent Omniflox
- Balcor Pension Investors resolves securities class action
- Balcor Securities Company resolves securities fraud action
- Cellegy Pharmaceuticals defends against litigation involving unfair competition and other claims in licensing, development, and marketing of hormone replacement drug
- Eastman Chemical resolves sorbates price-fixing litigation
- Eastman defends against product liability and intentional tort claims relating to alleged chemical exposure
- Oreck defends against unfair competition litigation over marketing of indoor air purifiers
- Principal Mutual successfully defends against nationwide class action involving residential mortgage escrow accounts
- R. J. Reynolds defends case presenting certified questions involving variety of product liability and intentional tort claims
- SunTrust prevails against nationwide class action alleging improper mortgage servicing practices
- TAP Pharmaceutical successfully defends 19 Lupron® pricing actions in state and federal courts
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- California
- Illinois
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Education
- The Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, 1990
J.D.
Law Journal: Law Journal, Articles Editor - University of California, Berkeley, California, 1986
B.A.
Major: Philosophy
Office Information
Address
555 California Street26th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone
Fax
- (415) 875-5700
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