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Julia Zousmer, a partner in King & Spalding's Chicago office, defends companies in complex product liability and mass tort litigation. Julia has more than a decade of experience defending pharmaceutical and consumer product manufacturers in federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) practice and state court coordinated proceedings and has managed dockets of hundreds and thousands of cases at all phases of the MDL lifecycle—from MDL formation, to drafting foundational case management orders, crafting/implementing a bellwether process, trying bellwether cases, drafting motions dismissing hundreds of cases, and using case management tools to winnow meritless cases from the docket for global resolution. Julia is a member of the Court-appointed Leadership Development Committee in the Zantac MDL in the Southern District of Florida and a key member of the team serving as national counsel for Boehringer Ingelheim in all Zantac litigation in state and federal court, which most recently won a complete Daubert and Summary Judgment victory in the MDL.
Julia has extensive trial experience, having achieved successful outcomes for clients on more than 13 trial teams in state and federal courts in some of the highest profile product liability MDLs of the past decade.
Julia has been recognized as a Rising Star in Life Sciences by Law 360, as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers for ten years in New York and Illinois, a Key Lawyer by Legal 500 in Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action Defense, one of “40 Under Forty 2023 Illinois Attorneys to Watch” by Chicago Lawyer & Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, "One to Watch" in Product Liability and Mass Tort Litigation by Best Lawyers, and selected for the Law 360 Illinois Editorial Board.
Julia is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) and a member of the Board of Friends of Prentice, the fundraising arm of Northwestern's Prentice Women's Hospital that raises money for women's health in all realms.
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