Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

June Ghezzi has managed a wide range of general business and complex commercial litigation matters and has first-chair trial experience in state and federal courts in cases that have gone to verdict, as well as experience in alternative dispute resolution and administrative proceedings. Her trial experience covers a broad array of topics such as disputes involving the sale of business, sexual harassment, theft of trade secrets, contract disputes, and police brutality.

June has extensive experience in defending pharmaceutical product liability actions and has acted as lead counsel in coordinating and defending more than 100 such cases filed in federal and state courts nationwide on behalf of a major pharmaceutical company. As part of the federal multidistrict litigation, she mediated over 90 cases to resolution, with the remainder resolved through summary judgment or dismissals. June has also defended clients in product cases involving the automobile industry, beryllium, hospital products, medical devices, and a variety of pharmaceutical products. In addition, she has defended and prosecuted commercial contract and tort cases that include corporate acquisitions, civil RICO, government contracting, and insurance contracts and has extensive experience in class actions and in counseling clients in connection with employment disputes and in obtaining relief on restrictive covenants.

June is a member of the ABA and the Trial Bar of the United States Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She has appeared in state and federal courts throughout the country and has argued appeals in the Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals. She has lectured extensively on attorney-client and work product issues in the product liability context as well as in connection with the ever changing role of in-house corporate counsel. She has served on the board of directors of the Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter; has been an instructor on expert witnesses; and has participated in training NITA instructors for trial workshops.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Class Action Litigation
• Product Liability & Tort Litigation
• Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Other Health Care Product Liability Litigati
• e-Discovery

Representative Cases

• Ashleigh Hill, by next friend and parent Rhonda Smith v. University Medical Center, Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Inc., Jefferson County, Kentucky, Case. No.
• Donald Faivre, individually and as representative of a class of persons similarly situated v. Williams Pipeline Company, et al., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Case. No. 92 CH 00267.
• General Electric Company v. Billy E. Adkins, Administrator of The Estate Of Helena R. Adkins, Deceased,, United State District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Case No. 01 C 1307,
• In re Wyeth "Effexor" Products Liability Litigation
• In re: Abbott Laboratories Omniflox Products Liability Litigation, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, MDL Docket No. 1004, All Cases, 94 C 2469
• In Re: Scouring Pads Antitrust Litigation, MDL Docket No. 985, Before the Judicial Panel of Multidistrict Litigation.
• Lopez v. City of Chicago, 01 C 1823 (N.D. Ill.)
• Maria E. Philippon Ramirez v. Joseph P. Kelly and the City of Chicago, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Case. No. 92 C 8127.
• Portis v. City of Chicago, No. 02 C 3139 (N.D. Ill.)
• Stanley Booker, Conservator for the Estate of Carson Booker, a minor, Stanley Booker and Tara Booker, individually v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., United States District Court, Western District of Michigan, Case No. 04-6403.
• William Vaughn and Jan Vaughn, parents of Hayden Vaughn, v. Abbott Laboratories, ., and Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority d/b/a Erlanger Health System, Hamilton County, Tennessee, Case No. 03 C 554.
• Williams v. City of Chicago, 01 C 3228 (N.D. Ill.)
• Acquisition of MPC Products

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

• Illinois

Education

• Loyola Univ- Chicago

Address

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Chicago, IL 60601-1692

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