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War College Curriculum for Defense Counsel

By Ronald J. Levine, Leah Kelman
May 02, 2014

It is a rare product liability defendant who believes that the plaintiff has a meritorious claim. In truth, defectively designed products have been sold, and inadequate product warnings have been given. That said, cases that an objective observer would describe as frivolous are filed regularly. If your company or client is the target of such a claim, there is a growing body of law that offers effective offensive strategies.

When weighing and evaluating those strategies, defense counsel should put on their (real) “General” hats, and view the terrain from the military perspective. The client is under attack. What strategies could be employed? Law school curricula do not offer a course on product liability counter-attacks against meritless and bogus litigation. If law schools did consider such a specialty program, they should take a page from War Colleges.

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