Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Peter Larson oversees the litigation practice in the San Francisco Office, where he focuses on product liability and complex commercial litigation. He has defended single party, multiparty, and class action product liability and toxic tort claims in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, tobacco products, industrial safety equipment, medical devices, and silica. His broad experience in complex commercial litigation matters includes unfair competition and deceptive trade practices claims under state and federal consumer protection statutes involving pharmaceutical and chemical distribution and pricing, food and beverage and other consumer products, and consumer financial services. Representative clients in recent public matters include Abbott Laboratories, Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Eastman Chemical Company, Lehman Brothers, North Safety Products, Oreck Corporation, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Sutter Home Winery, and Textron.

Peter regularly serves as faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has lectured at seminars on trial tactics, expert witnesses, discovery techniques, and persuasive legal writing. He also serves as the training partner for Jones Day's Northern California offices. He is a member of numerous state and federal bar associations. He is a director of the Upjohn Fund of San Francisco and has served as a committee chair and general counsel of The Guardsmen, a not-for-profit charitable organization supporting at risk Bay Area youth.

Areas of Practice

• Product Liability & Tort Litigation
• Class Action and Multidistrict Product Liability Litigation
• Trial Practice
• Product Response Team

Representative Cases

• Adickes, et al. v. Balcor Securities Company, No. 91-02370 (NASD)
• Canto v. AMSCO International, Inc.
• Darlington, et al. v. SunTrust Mortgage, Inc.
• Grisham v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. and Cannata v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., No. S132772 (Cal.)
• In re Lupron Drug Litigation
• In re Mortgages Escrow Deposit Litigation (MDL 899)
• In re Sorbates Pricing 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
• Miller, et al. v. Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company, No. 91-4760 (N.D. Ill.)
• Paul Williams v. Balcor Pension Investors, No. 90-CIV-0726, 1994 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19484 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 23, 1994)
• PDI, Inc. v. Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Rouse v. Eastman Chemical Company, et al.
• Sharper Image v. Oreck Corporation
• Williams, et al. v. Balcor Pension Investors, Inc.
• Individual Smoking and Health Cases
• Respirator/Safety Device Litigation

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

• California
• Illinois

Education

• Ohio State University

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