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Products liability claims by injured workers, consumers, and patients demand a lawyer with special skills and experience. These cases are intensely defended by skilled attorneys guided by defendant companies determined to defend their products and their profits. Experience counts. We work as counsel, as co-counsel, trial counsel, appellate counsel, and special consultants on the law, liability, expert evidence, and damages. George W. Conk has distinguished himself as a trial attorney, appellate lawyer, teacher, and scholar. Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, George Conk has tried cases before juries and successfully settled product liability cases of many kinds:
Appellate Lawyer - Victory often leads to appeals. Appeals court panels review cases with a fine toothed comb. Being an expert on the law wins appeals, and avoids unnecessary appeals. George Conk has played an important role in precedent setting products liability cases in the United States Supreme Court and in the New Jersey Supreme Court.
George Conk served
2 terms on the Model
Civil Jury Charge Committee - the New Jersey Supreme Court committee
which writes the legal instructions which judges read to juries. Since
1992 he has been a member of the Products Liability Subcommittee. Teacher
- George Conk has taught Products Liability, Medical Products Liability
and Scientific Evidence starting in 1995 at Seton
Hall Law School, where he has served as a visiting professor and
an adjunct professor. He lectures frequently for the New
Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Scholar - George Conk's critique of lenient rules for pharmaceutical and medical device makers has been adopted by the Nebraska Supreme Court in a landmark decision regarding the dangerous drug Accutane. And George's writing on how to decide if there is legally adequate proof of what causes a disease has been relied on by the Oregon Supreme Court in a breast implant case which permitted women to proceed with a case against manufacturers they charge failed to conduct adequate safety testing. He helped draft the model jury instructions in New Jersey on unsafe products, and helped to defeat the effort of pharmaceutical companies to avoid liability to hemophiliacs who were infected with hemophilia and HIV by the medicines they took.He has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Seton Hall Law Review, the Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, Shepard's Expert and Scientific Evidence Quarterly, and the New Jersey Lawyer. Major Legal Writings Member:
Products Liability
Resources: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Leflaw's Fenphen Multistate class action website & Bulletin Board National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Public Citizen Litigation Group (Ralph Nader) Tobacco Control Resource Center/Tobacco Products Liability Page |
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