Wilson, Paula Batt

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Paula Batt Wilson concentrates her practice in litigation, with a particular interest in product liability and multicase litigation. Paula is a member of the Jones Day team that serves as national coordinating counsel and trial counsel in product liability and public nuisance litigation involving paints and pigments. Her responsibilities encompass corporate, medical, and public health history and include the defense of claims of failure to warn and claims of misrepresentations in advertising and marketing. She also serves as a member of Jones Day teams representing medical device manufacturers as well as a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in litigation involving antidepressants. Paula's experience in other areas ranges from energy and utility contracts to FDA matters, consumer fraud class actions, and insurance coverage and legal malpractice claims. Paula coauthored, with Jones Day partner Mark Herrmann, an article on a contested removal strategy, published online in Product Liability Law 360 as "A Serviceable Notion: Removal By Resident Defendants" (2008).

Before practicing law, Paula was a member of the U.S. management team at AFS International/Intercultural Programs Inc. in New York. Paula is a member of the Federal and Ohio Bar Associations and serves as a member of the board of directors of the American Red Cross Blood Services, Northeast Ohio Region.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Product Liability & Tort Litigation
• Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Other Health Care Product Liability Litigati

Representative Cases

• Cooper Tire & Rubber successfully defends against premises liability and products case
• Cooper Tire obtains nationwide class settlement in action alleging deficient manufacturing and sales practices for steel-belted radial tires
• FirstEnergy defeats complaint seeking to enjoin FirstEnergy's unregulated HVAC and electric contracting affiliates from engaging in business , (2009)
• Medina Supply defends against series of allegations of defective concrete , (2009)
• Mentor wins complete defense verdict after trial in case alleging injuries caused by ObTape , (2009)
• OGE defends against state court litigation arising from "take or pay" natural gas purchase contracts
• Sherwin-Williams defends against Milwaukee public nuisance action , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams defends lead paint actions filed in Santa Clara County, CA
• Sherwin-Williams obtains defense verdict in Wisconsin case alleging personal injuries from lead pigment , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams prevails in landmark public nuisance suit over lead pigment before Rhode Island Supreme Court , (2009)
• Wyeth obtains 5th Circuit affirmance of summary judgment entry in products liability action related to prescription antidepressant

West Practice Categories

Alcoholic Beverages, Apparel, Asbestos, Bankruptcy Litigation, Chemicals & Cosmetics, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Firearms, Food & Agricultural Products, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Machinery & Tools, Medical Products & Devices, Military & Veterans Appeals, Motor Vehicle Defects, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Pharmaceutical Products, Products Liability Law, Recreational Products, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Tobacco, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Brown University
• Case Western Reserve Univ

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North Point
901 Lakeside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114-1190

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