Memphis Daily News
Author: Rebekah Hearn
J. Carter Thompson, a shareholder at the Jackson, Miss., office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, has been chosen to head the firm-wide Product Liability and Mass Tort Group. He will oversee about 70 professionals in the firm's 15 offices, including Memphis.
Thompson also serves as co-chair of the firm’s Drug, Device & Life Sciences Team, which has more than 80 attorneys.
Thompson practices in the national, regional and local defense of product liability, drug and medical device, professional liability and personal injury cases. He is a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council and serves on the Steering Committee of the Drug & Device Committee of DRI. He has been selected as a Best Lawyer in America in Product Liability, listed in Chambers USA as a leading litigation lawyer in Mississippi, is listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers and was named to the Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America.
He serves as lead counsel for the distributor of anesthesia medication in more than 200 cases in Nevada and recently served as lead counsel for the manufacturer of a hemodialysis product withdrawn from the market.
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