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
- Represented global biopharmaceutical companies in a Judicial Counsel of California coordinated proceeding (JCCP) involving more than 18,000 plaintiffs alleging claims of strict liability, negligence, and state statutory claims.°
- Obtained pivotal summary judgment victories based on federal law pre-emption in coordinated proceeding involving thousands of cases alleging that the label on a prescription medicine was inadequate.°
- Defended pharmaceutical drug and device companies in individual products liability cases and multidistrict litigation involving prescription antipsychotic medications, estrogen products, hip implants, and anticoagulant medications, as well as over-the-counter pain medications.°
- 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.
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)