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Leslie A. Maria

Senior Discovery Counsel

Leslie A. Maria practices in the Firm’s Complex Litigation, Toxic Torts & Products Liability, Investigations, and White Collar Defense groups.  She has broad and in-depth litigation and trial experience providing trial teams with support for the admission of evidence at trial, dispositive and discovery motions, and the preparation of fact witnesses and experts to testify in depositions and at jury and bench trials. Read More >

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Precedents

• The Zometa® Cases

  Hollingsworth LLP outwits well-funded plaintiffs' attorney group by prevailing in early trials (including plaintiffs' trial picks) in consolidated litigation for client Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

• The Parlodel® Trilogy

  11th Circuit affirmance in Rider v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals completes circuit court Daubert sweep in Parlodel® litigation.

• Favorable settlement reached for Norfolk Southern in largest single tort case in South Carolina history

  Avondale Mills, Inc. v. Norfolk Southern Corp., Civ. No. 1:05-2817-MBS (D.S.C. 2008)

• Court dismissed $4B claim brought by the State of New Mexico against Firm client General Electric.

  New Mexico v. Gen. Electric Co., 467 F.3d 1223 (10th Cir. 2006)

• Federal court grants Daubert and summary judgment motions filed by Firm client General Motors in PCB lawsuit.

  Allgood v. General Motors Corp., No. 1:02-cv-1077-DFH-TAB (S.D. Ind. Sept. 18, 2006)

Verdicts & Opinions

• Idaho state court rejects innovator liability claims against Firm client Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

  Stirling v. Novartis Pharms. Corp., et al., No. CV01-18-4880 (Sept. 25, 2019)

• Federal district court dismisses putative class action against Sherwin-Williams.

  Brad Lafferty, et al. v. The Sherwin-Williams Company, et al., Case No. 1:17-cv-06321, at *8 (D.N.J. Aug. 21, 2018)

• Federal court judge holds N.J. statute precludes punitive damages and “fraud” exception is preempted.

  McWilliams v. Novartis AG, et al., No. 2:17-cv-14302-RLR (July 31, 2018)

• New Jersey Superior Court grants Firm client Avon Products, Inc.’s motion for summary judgment in talc litigation.

  Martinez v. American International Industries, et al., No. MID-L-1120-17AS (June 15, 2018)

• 11th Circuit affirms Firm client Novartis’s summary judgment win based on Daubert exclusion of causation experts’ testimony in Reclast® case.

  Jones v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., No. 17-11063 (11th Cir. Apr. 30, 2018)