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With a wide range of experience in various industries and jurisdictions, our attorneys have proven experience, successfully litigating cases in the following areas.
Michael Pichini is a partner with Goodell DeVries. His practice is concentrated in civil litigation with an emphasis on product liability defense. His practice also includes mass toxic torts, lead paint, construction litigation, and subrogation matters. In the products field, Michael deals regularly with pharmaceutical products and industrial minerals. He has participated in product liability and personal injury trials in California and Maryland in state and federal courts. He has also practiced in numerous state and federal jurisdictions on a pro hac vice basis, conducting discovery, motions practice, and general trial preparation. Before practicing law, Michael held a number of positions in the insurance industry dealing with property and casualty claims as well as multi-tiered risk management.
Michael currently acts as national coordinating counsel for an international industrial mineral producer involved in mass tort litigation across several states. As a result of his aggressive defense strategy including discovery, expert retention, trial preparation, and trial in over 20 jurisdictions in both state and federal courts, he has effectuated a dramatic reduction in the number of these cases over an eight-year period.
Michael is a member of the firm's pharmaceutical defense team and has been involved with nationwide discovery and defense strategy in past and current pharmaceutical litigation.
He has successfully achieved favorable resolution through trial and negotiation of numerous asbestos cases pending in Maryland state and various federal courts, including federal multidistrict litigation.