Litigation

Anand Agneshwar co-chairs the firm's product liability litigation practice group. He represents pharmaceutical and consumer product companies as national, strategic, trial and appellate counsel in product liability litigation and related litigation. His experience includes nearly a dozen bench and jury trials, numerous Daubert and Daubert-style hearings, and hundreds of significant arguments in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country. He also counsels clients on litigation risks, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory issues, and the litigation and compliance impact of potential legislation. Mr. Agneshwar writes frequently on product liability and FDA issues. He also maintains an active pro bono practice focusing on protecting civil liberties.

Mr. Agneshwar graduated from New York University School of Law, magna cum laude, in 1992, where he was Order of the Coif, Developments Editor of the NYU Law Review, and published a note entitled "Rediscovering God In The Constitution." Following law school, he clerked for the late Honorable Harold A. Ackerman, US District Judge for the District of New Jersey, and Morton I. Greenberg, US Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Litigation Representative Matters

• Lead counsel to Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi in Plavix litigation and other prescription drug litigations.
• Counsel to Wyeth in diet drug litigation since 1997, currently providing strategic advice and handling trials and appeals.
• Procured one of the, if not the, first Daubert-type hearing and compelled court-ordered independent medical examination in Mississippi state court.
• Lead counsel in numerous First Amendment cases involving, among other issues, public school censorship of student-initiated religious speech and retaliation and arrest of a student for protesting full body scanners at airport.
• Represented prominent legal philosophers John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, and Robert Nozick in amicus brief on end-of-life care issues in Supreme Court.