Complex Torts

When a company faces litigation that threatens its financial stability, public reputation, or long-term viability, the quality of its legal representation can determine everything. Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice stands as one of the most recognized and capable complex tort defense groups in the United States, delivering the strategic depth, trial experience, and institutional resources that high-stakes matters demand.

For companies and their boards, complex tort litigation is rarely just a legal matter; it is a business crisis, a reputational challenge, and often a defining moment in an organization’s operations. Managing these cases well requires more than legal skill; it requires strategic vision, industry knowledge, scientific literacy, and the ability to act decisively under pressure.

A Practice Built for the Highest Stakes

Clients turn to Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice specifically because of its strength in bet-the-company trials and arbitrations. The Practice brings together more than 175 lawyers organized across three core disciplines:

• Environmental & Toxic Tort Litigation
• Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation
• Products Liability & Mass Torts

This concentration of talent allows us to field experienced, focused teams for virtually any complex tort matter, regardless of the industry, the number of plaintiffs, or the geographic scope of the litigation.

Immediate Response to High-Exposure Threats

One of the defining characteristics of complex tort crises is their urgency. Whether a company faces a media-driven narrative asserting industry-wide misconduct, an aggressive regulatory investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency or the Food and Drug Administration, class-wide claims of economic harm, or a sudden mass tort filing in the wake of a product recall or industrial incident, time is a critical variable.

Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts lawyers are structured to mobilize immediately. From the first hours of a crisis, the team can deploy litigation strategy, coordinate with client teams to develop approaches that help protect the company’s reputation and assets, and begin building the defense that will serve the client throughout the life of the matter.

Recognized Legal Excellence

The breadth and quality of Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice have earned consistent recognition from some of the most authoritative voices in legal rankings and analysis. The American Lawyer, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 United States, Law360, and Benchmark Litigation all have recognized Greenberg Traurig for its capabilities in products liability, mass tort defense, class action defense, toxic torts, consumer products litigation, and pharmaceutical and medical device matters. This recognition reflects both the firm’s efforts and its standing among clients and peers as a go-to resource for complex tort defense.

Deep Industry & Scientific Knowledge

Effective complex tort defense cannot rely on legal argumentation alone. The current legal and regulatory landscape, evolving scientific and medical literature, plaintiffs’ tactical playbooks, and industry-specific market trends all shape how cases are built, argued, and concluded. Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice invests heavily in this domain knowledge.

The team continuously monitors medical and scientific literature relevant to the industries it serves; maintains a current understanding of regulatory developments at agencies such as the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services; and tracks litigation trends across plaintiff firms and jurisdictions.

This knowledge base enables us to provide thoughtful, business-centered counsel that reflects not only what the law requires but also what the client’s strategic and operational objectives demand. For corporate boards and senior executives managing multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional matters, this integration of legal and business perspective is essential.

A Vetted Network of Subject Matter Experts

Major complex tort litigation frequently turns on scientific, medical, economic, and technical questions that fall outside the domain of law. Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice has built and maintains a carefully vetted network of scientists, physicians, economists, accountants, engineers, appraisers, historians, and other subject matter experts. These professionals are not afterthoughts in the litigation process; they are integral participants whose contributions shape case theory, expert disclosure strategy, and jury persuasion.

Former Government Officials Providing Perspective

A meaningful advantage of Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice is the presence of former federal and state prosecutors, regulatory officials, and senior government agency personnel within the team. Lawyers with prior experience at the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services bring first-hand knowledge of how these agencies conduct investigations, build enforcement cases, and make prosecutorial decisions.

For companies navigating government investigations alongside private litigation, this inside perspective enables more efficient and effective engagement with regulators and broadly informs defense strategy across all fronts of a complex matter.

Integration With a Deeply Skilled Trial Practice

Complex torts cases that reach trial demand the highest level of courtroom preparation and execution. Greenberg Traurig’s Complex Torts Practice works in close partnership with the firm’s Trial Practice, a multidisciplinary group that functions as a trial boutique within Greenberg Traurig’s broader litigation platform of more than 800 lawyers. The Trial Practice brings deep first-chair experience in sophisticated, high-stakes cases across both state and federal courts throughout the United States, ensuring that when a matter reaches the courtroom, the client is represented by lawyers who are genuinely prepared to try complex cases.

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