In This Issue:

- Letter From The Chair

- Key Practice Trends + Highlights

- Consumer Products

- Pharmaceutical Products and Medical Devices

- Aviation

- Toxics Regulation and Toxic Tort

- Publications

- Key Contacts

- Excerpt from Letter from the Chair:

As we look back on 2014, we want to thank you, our clients, for continuing to entrust us with your most important and complex product liability matters. We are honored to have helped you navigate this eventful year.

2014 was a year of major developments for clients in all aspects of our product liability practice. In the consumer products arena, our clients saw increased enforcement efforts and aggressive stances by CPSC against product manufacturers, with higher civil penalties and additional compliance-program requirements. In fact, the total penalties announced by CPSC for 2014 were more than double those of the previous year, continuing a trend that has established CPSC as a serious enforcement agency.