HarrisMartin's California Mass Tort and Class Action Litigation Conference: The Impact of Daimler and BMS-Plavix Speaker Profiles

Hunter J. Shkolnik concentrates his area of practice to the trial of significant personal injury cases primarily in the area of drug, automobile, heavy truck and aviation related product liability actions.

He leads the discovery and trial teams of various mass tort pharmaceutical and medical device litigations for the firm. He is also active in managing national litigation and plaintiff litigation groups including the American Association of Justice’s Actos Litigation Group.

He is currently serving as a chairman, leader or court appointed representative on Plaintiff Steering Committees in various drug and other mass torts. Additionally Mr. Shkolnik has also held officer positions in the New York State Trial Lawyers, Nassau County Bar Association and Committee Chair positions in ATLA Health Care Finance Litigation Group, Orthopedic Implant Litigation Group, AAJ Breast Cancer Litigation Group, Co-Chair AAJ Heart Device Litigation Group and the Chair of the Medtronic ICD and CRTD Litigation Sub Group.

Mr. Shkolnik has also lectured and organized seminars on issues involving Guidant, Medtronic and St. Jude pacemakers, ICD and Lead Wire recall science and litigation; Cardiac Device product liability litigation, Class Actions topics such as Ethics of Mass Tort Settlements, Lone Pine, State Federal Coordination and Preemption and on multiple occasions, on science related to various pharmaceuticals.

Amy Eskin is a trial lawyer who has been successfully representing injured consumers nationally in personal injury, medical negligence, products liability and complex pharmaceutical and medical device cases for more than 25 years.

She is a tenacious, highly accessible and personal advocate for her clients and is devoted to representing individuals who have been injured by corporations who value profits over safety. Amy loves trying cases in order to obtain justice for those who have been injured.

In April of 2013, Amy was honored to be awarded the Civil Justice Award by the San Francisco Trial Lawyer’s Association – an award to an attorney who “fights the good fight in the trenches every day” and who “contributes to the betterment of consumers and/or injured victim and their families.”

In July of 2016, Amy was appointed as Plaintiff’s Liason Counsel by Judge Mary Wiss in JCCP 4863 In Re Pradaxa cases. Also in July 2016, Amy was elected as a Co-Chair of the American Association of Justice’s (AAJ) Transvaginal Mesh Litigation Group.

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