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Rania Kajan specializes in defending clients in the technology, pharmaceutical, automotive, and energy/mining industries in nationwide product liability, toxic tort, and mass tort litigation, including class actions.  Rania has significant experience leading and managing teams on cross-practice, cross-office matters, as well as serving in a strategic, coordination role on joint defense teams involving case dockets with thousands of actions.

In addition to her Product Liability and Mass Torts practice, Rania is passionate about civic engagement in her local community.  She is a longstanding member of the Young Supporters Board for the Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta, whose mission is to turn houses into homes by providing donated furniture and household items to individuals and families moving out of homelessness, living with HIV/AIDS, or fleeing from domestic violence.  Rania also maintains a varied pro bono practice, including assisting with pardon applications, compassionate release petitions, record expungements, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) application renewals. 

Prior to joining King & Spalding, Rania clerked for the Honorable Jose E. Martinez and Alicia O. Valle in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.  Before that, Rania clerked at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague, Netherlands pursuant to a fellowship from NYU Law's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

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Credentials

LL.M., New York University School of Law

J.D., University of Florida, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

B.A., Florida International University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Georgia

New York

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Law Clerk, Hon. Alicia O. Valle, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Law Clerk, Hon. Jose E. Martinez, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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Represented Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz USA in putative class actions filed in the Southern District of Florida and Northern District of Georgia.

Representing TikTok in nationwide litigation in which individual plaintiffs allege personal injuries and school districts and other governmental entities allege economic damages arising from adolescent use of various online communications services in the In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Litigation MDL pending in the Northern District of California.

Representing Boehringer Ingelheim in the In re Zantac MDL and in multiple state court actions arising from allegations concerning Zantac and other ranitidine-containing products.

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Represented Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz USA in putative class actions filed in the Southern District of Florida and Northern District of Georgia.

Representing TikTok in nationwide litigation in which individual plaintiffs allege personal injuries and school districts and other governmental entities allege economic damages arising from adolescent use of various online communications services in the In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Litigation MDL pending in the Northern District of California.

Representing Boehringer Ingelheim in the In re Zantac MDL and in multiple state court actions arising from allegations concerning Zantac and other ranitidine-containing products.

Serving as National Counsel for Viking Group, Inc. with respect to claims and lawsuits relating to property damage arising from alleged manufacturing or design defects in fire suppression equipment.

Representing Renco Group and Doe Run Resources in mass tort litigation in federal court in St. Louis concerning personal injury allegations by several thousand Peruvian children allegedly exposed to contaminants from a smelter in the Andean Highlands.

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October 21, 2022
Predominant Issues October 2022

Newsletter

March 8, 2022
Predominant Issues March 2022

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Matters

Represented Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz USA in putative class actions filed in the Southern District of Florida and Northern District of Georgia.

Representing TikTok in nationwide litigation in which individual plaintiffs allege personal injuries and school districts and other governmental entities allege economic damages arising from adolescent use of various online communications services in the In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Litigation MDL pending in the Northern District of California.

Representing Boehringer Ingelheim in the In re Zantac MDL and in multiple state court actions arising from allegations concerning Zantac and other ranitidine-containing products.

See more

Close

Matters

Represented Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz USA in putative class actions filed in the Southern District of Florida and Northern District of Georgia.

Representing TikTok in nationwide litigation in which individual plaintiffs allege personal injuries and school districts and other governmental entities allege economic damages arising from adolescent use of various online communications services in the In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Litigation MDL pending in the Northern District of California.

Representing Boehringer Ingelheim in the In re Zantac MDL and in multiple state court actions arising from allegations concerning Zantac and other ranitidine-containing products.

Serving as National Counsel for Viking Group, Inc. with respect to claims and lawsuits relating to property damage arising from alleged manufacturing or design defects in fire suppression equipment.

Representing Renco Group and Doe Run Resources in mass tort litigation in federal court in St. Louis concerning personal injury allegations by several thousand Peruvian children allegedly exposed to contaminants from a smelter in the Andean Highlands.

Insights

Newsletter

October 21, 2022
Predominant Issues October 2022

Newsletter

March 8, 2022
Predominant Issues March 2022

View all

Credentials

LL.M., New York University School of Law

J.D., University of Florida, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

B.A., Florida International University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Georgia

New York

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Law Clerk, Hon. Alicia O. Valle, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Law Clerk, Hon. Jose E. Martinez, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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