Profilo
Sabrina R. Gallo is Chair of the Miami Products Liability Practice, and a shareholder in the firm’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Health Care Litigation Practice. As a trial lawyer in multimillion-dollar litigation, she concentrates her practice on the representation and defense of products liability cases, with an emphasis on representing manufacturers of medical devices and pharmaceuticals in state and federal courts nationwide. Sabrina has experience managing individual, nationwide and mass tort litigation involving a variety of medical devices including infusion and insulin pumps, mesh, vascular products, and other medical devices and implants, as well as a wide variety of pharmaceuticals including chemotherapy medications and hormone replacement therapy. Her experience also includes representations of clients in clinical trial litigation. Sabrina also regularly counsels manufacturers regarding review and drafting of appropriate warning language for product recalls, reporting and labeling, Medicare Secondary Payer Act compliance and litigation, and other pre-litigation matters.
Complementing Sabrina's trial experience is her deep experience in advising clients on complex settlement strategies in mass actions, as well as individual presuit claims and lawsuits. She provides all-inclusive strategic litigation management and resolution strategies, including assessing the viability of claims to structure defense and resolution strategies that are tailored to the client’s financial needs and overall objectives. She handles both large settlements, serving as national resolution counsel for an international medical device manufacturer, as well as resolutions in smaller, individual matters for her clients.
Sabrina leads national teams in complex litigation from pre-suit negotiations up through trial, developing case strategy and all aspects of fact and expert discovery. She handles high-stakes, single-plaintiff cases as well as mass torts, including multi-district litigations, coordinated state actions, class actions and remanded cases for trial.
Her experience in this industry for over two decades has allowed her to focus on achieving the right outcome for her clients in litigation. Whether that involves creative and strategic resolutions strategies or defending hundreds of remanded individual cases across the nation, Sabrina listens to her client’s needs – both for their business and in litigation – to advocate on their behalf and pursue each client’s legal goals.
Concentrations
- Pharmaceutical, medical device and health care litigation
- Products liability and toxic torts
- Class actions
- Mass torts and multidistrict litigation
- Life sciences and medical technology
- Food, drug, cosmetics, and devices law
- Health law
- Jury trials
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Obtained a complete defense verdict following a two-week trial in July 2021 in a multimillion-dollar action involving cardiovascular intravascular device against our client, a medical device manufacturer of numerous life-saving devices and products.
- Led team in defense of pharmaceutical company over allegations that branded drug caused severe allergic reactions, including Stevens-Johnson Syndrome in various cases pending in California.
- Defend manufacturer of medical devices in all claims concerning vascular devices, including overseeing national teams in hundreds of remanded cases and trials across the country.
- Defend medical device manufacturer in multi-district litigation involving transvaginal mesh.
- Defend multinational manufacturer of medical devices in products liability matters across the country involving infusion pumps.
- Defend multinational pharmaceutical company in litigation concerning alleged reactions to chemotherapy medication.
- Defended pharmaceutical company against allegations that clinical trial of its experimental new drug failed to warn of adverse events.
- Defended global pharmaceutical company in pharmaceutical products liability litigation in individual and consolidated mass tort litigation regarding hormone replacement therapy.
- Represent global manufacturer of various medical products in pre-suit claims and filed lawsuits related allegations of complications due to hernia repairs.
- Senior member of trial teams representing Lorillard Tobacco Company in defense of numerous products liability class action and individual smoking and health cases. Member of trial team for industry in obtaining defense jury verdict in environmental tobacco smoke case.
- Senior member of trial team defending a manufacturer of military aircraft against wrongful death claims involving legal issues surrounding client's immunity from suit under Constitutional considerations.
- Lead trial counsel representing minority shareholder in dispute with majority shareholder of a Miami-based operation generating significant profits and cash flow regarding the percentage of equity ownership owned by the minority shareholder and the valuation of such interest. Prosecuted claims involving complex business valuation methodologies and theories through a non-jury trial, resulting in a declaratory judgment of value in an amount in excess of three times that initially proposed by the majority shareholder.
- Defended executive search firm that was sued for damages alleged to exceed $60 million by its client, a major South Florida hospital in federal court. Disposed of case through summary judgment which was subsequently affirmed on appeal.
- Second-chair trial attorney in the defense of a financial institution regarding claims brought by senior executive officer regarding employment benefits and claims of breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.
- Defended NYSE public corporation in sensitive federal and state investigations, including investigations by the Department of Justice and the Florida Attorney General's Office on civil and criminal forfeiture grounds. No criminal or civil charges were filed.
- Provided consulting with respect to certain business transactions involving Italian companies.
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, 2024
- Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2023
- Listed, Benchmark Litigation, "Litigation Star," 2022-2024
- Listed, Who’s Who Legal, “Product Liability Defense,” 2023
- Listed, South Florida Business Journal, "Influential Business Women," 2022
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Dispute Resolution > Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action - Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices, 2023
- Team Member, a Law360 “Product Liability Practice Group of the Year,” 2021-2022
- Listed, Florida Trend, "Legal Elite," 2019, 2022
- Team Member, The American Lawyer’s “Products Liability Litigation Department of the Year,” 2018
- Recognized, Dade County Bar Association, "Legal Luminary - Health Care," 2016
- Listed, Attorney at Law magazine, "12 to Watch in 2012," 2012
- Listed, South Florida Business Journal, "40 Under 40," 2011
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, "Rising Star," 2009
- Rated, AV Preeminent®
- Certified, American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Arbitrator: AHLA Neutral for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Health Care Matters
- Board Member, Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRIF), Florida Region, Board of Directors
- Chair, Honey Shine Mentoring Program, Board of Directors
- Board Member, The Posse Foundation, Miami Chapter, Advisory Board
- Amicus Member, National Association of Women Judges
- Founding Friend and Council Member, Beyond Type 1
- Committee Member, Greenberg Traurig United Way
- Member, Miami Chapter and Former Officer, Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Executive Board
- Member, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel
- Member, The American Bar Association
- Member, The Florida Bar
Formazione
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Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, magna cum laude, University of Miami School of Law
- Order of the Coif
- Editor-in-Chief, University of Miami Law Review
- Moot Court Board Member
- Honors: Recipient, Law Phillips and Dean's Merit Scholarship; Winner, First Year Moot Court Competition; Recipient, Honors Designation, Litigation Skills I Workshop, Trial Skills; Cali Award of Excellence in Property and Legal Research and Writing; Phi Delta Phi; and Miami Law Women
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B.S., Chemistry, Biology, University of Miami, Psychology
- Honors: Dean's List; Psi Chi Honor Society; Golden Key Honor Society
- Activities: Vice President, Italian Club; Miami Commitment Roundtable Coordinator
- Florida
- Texas
- District of Columbia
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Italian