Area of focus

Product Litigation

When you sell or distribute products, news of a safety or liability issue in one country can spread everywhere, and fast. The fallout depends on the problem, of course, as much as on the way you react. One ill-judged step or comment could lead to a product recall or plunging share price. Because your reputation is tied to your products, you need contingencies for whatever goes wrong.

Plus, with consumers expecting more from companies they do business with and regulators piling pressure on companies to keep...

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Representative experience

Global defense of global certification company against liability claims resulting from allegedly inappropriate certification of breast implant manufacturer P.I.P.

We provided advice to a multinational automotive company about a multimillion-Euro supply chain dispute, following a component failure in almost 100,000 vehicles.

Hogan Lovells “boasts the most comprehensive Global Practice” — Who’s Who Legal – Product Liability Defence 2015.

The liability implications of new health care technologies

Hogan Lovells Events

The Future of Environmental Litigation & Quantification of Damages

23 April 2025 | 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (BST)

Large-scale environmental damage presents unique challenges in quantification, as traditional economic measures often fail to capture the full extent of harm. To address this, economists...

News

Insights from our award-winning Litigation practice: A conversation with partner Rebecca Mandel

13 November 2023

Hogan Lovells Events

Global Class Actions to host State of Play Series focused on the UK

9 November 2023 | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (GMT)

The Global Class Actions practice group fall webinar series, State of Play, heads to the United Kingdom for a deep dive into the collective action landscape, trends of the past year,...

Sponsorships and Speaking Engagements

ACI Advanced Forum

17 October 2023

Partner Trent Norris will speak at the American Conference Institute’s (ACI) Advanced Form on, “Defending FDA-Regulated Consumer Product Class Actions on 17 October 2023. Trent...

Sponsorships and Speaking Engagements

SPLiCE Licensors Workshop

13 September 2023

Partner Trent Norris presented at the Society of Professional Licensors Committed to Excellence’s (SPLiCE) Licensors Workshop on 13 September 2023. His presentation discussed...

Awards & rankings

Akima Paul Lambert featured in The Lawyer's Hot 100 list

17 January 2022

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