Active Leadership and Lobbying Efforts
- Steptoe & Johnson includes among its members, former chairpersons of the state’s Democratic and Republican parties and provides lobbying services to its clients on a daily basis. Products Liability Group members are active in state and national defense organizations, including the West Virginia Defense Trial Counsel and Defense Research Institute.
- Attorneys in the group are frequent lecturers at national and local seminars on products liability issues, including asbestos, silica and benzene litigation, medical devices, fire origin and cause, subrogation, and spoliation of evidence.
Commitment to Client Services
- Serial and mass litigation, such as silica, benzene, and asbestos, is managed vigorously through the maintenance of client documents, expert deposition, and regulation repositories, cost/benefit matrices to track settlements and compare trends, and intranet sites.
- Technological capabilities include a number of litigation-based software programs and databases used to manage documents, discovery, and data. For large cases, the firm’s IT department is consulted to customize the right technology module to support the process, with an emphasis on controlling transactional costs.