Profile
Anna Yeung focuses her practice on products liability with an emphasis on the defense of complex pharmaceutical products and medical devices in single-plaintiff actions, coordinated proceedings and multi-district litigations. She routinely handles matters from the pre-litigation stage through final disposition or resolution, securing favorable dispositive rulings, including numerous summary judgment wins, at trial and reaffirmed on appeal. Anna also represents companies and individuals in a broad range of complex commercial litigation matters, including industries in telecommunications, insurance, computer software, and semiconductors.
In addition to her litigation practice, Anna also volunteers at the Asian Pacific Islander (API) Legal Outreach and Asian American Bar Association (AABA) monthly pro bono legal clinic in San Francisco, CA, where she provides legal assistance to low-income Bay Area residents in a number of areas, including immigration, family law, and housing.
Capabilities
Experience
- Defend medical device manufacturers in products liability and sales representative liability lawsuits in state and federal courts nationwide involving intrathecal pain pumps and infusion pump devices.
- Defend multinational medical device manufacturer in products liability matters involving vascular devices and assist in overseeing a team of attorneys and other legal professionals in hundreds of cases remanded and transferred to California federal courts.
- Defended medical device manufacturer in all claims concerning syringe and needle products.
- Obtained dismissal of all claims with prejudice for distributor of assistive mobility devices for people with short term or permanent disabilities based on lack of jurisdiction in California state court.
- Represented global biopharmaceutical companies in a Judicial Counsel Coordinated Proceedings (JCCP) involving more than 18,000 plaintiffs alleging claims of strict product liability, negligence, breach of warranty, and state consumer claims.°
- Obtained pivotal summary judgment victories for brand and generic pharmaceutical manufacturers based on federal law preemption in coordinated proceedings in California state court.°
- Defended pharmaceutical and medical device companies in multidistrict litigations and individual products liability cases across the country involving prescription antipsychotic medications, estrogen products, anticoagulant medications, hip implants, and over-the-counter pain medication.°
- Defended a telecommunications company in a putative class action asserting causes of action under California Business and Professions Code 17200 and 17500, California Consumers Legal Remedies Act, and common law claims.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Yeung prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Northern California Super Lawyers, "Rising Stars," 2022
- Team Member, a Law360 "Product Liability Practice Group of the Year," 2021-2022
- Board Member, AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP), 2022-Present
Credentials
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J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law
- Senior Note Editor, Hastings Business Law Journal
- Teaching Assistant, Civil Procedure and Property
- CALI and Witkin Awards for Highest Grades in Civil Procedure
- CALI and Witkin Awards for Highest Grades in Evidence
- CALI and Witkin Awards for Highest Grades in Pretrial Practice
- CALI and Witkin Awards for Highest Grades in Legal Research and Writing
- B.A., with honors, University of California at Los Angeles
- California
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Chinese (Cantonese)