Hale, Mary L.

Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Mary Hale has extensive experience in a broad range of complex litigation, including corporate criminal investigations and related litigation, toxic tort litigation, and antitrust cases. She has particular experience in corporate governance issues, discovery issues, including those relating to the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine, and allegations of failure to warn. Most recently, she participated in the defense of IBM in connection with multiple civil actions filed by more than 200 plaintiffs in New York and California state courts alleging that workplace exposures caused cancer and other diseases in IBM employees or birth defects in their offspring.

Mary is a member of the ABA and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• BFGoodrich receives FTC approval to acquire Coltec, prevails in private litigation challenging the transaction , (2009)
• First American Bankshares responds to investigations and litigation arising from acquisition of parent company by BCCI , (2009)
• IBM wins defense verdict in San Jose workers' toxic tort litigation case
• Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Corporation defends securities fraud class action
• Northrop defends civil litigation and criminal investigations relating to alleged payments to Korean government officials , (2009)

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

• District of Columbia

Education

• George Washington University
• Georgetown University

Address

51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-2113

Phones

1.202.879.3861 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.202.626.1700 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com