McCarter & English LLP has added former Gibbons PC litigator Natalie Mantell as a partner in its Newark, New Jersey office, where she’ll draw on her defense work in cases over pharmaceutical products and medical devices as a member of the firm’s product liability practice.
The recent accomplishments of Mantell — the former product liability board chair and immediate past president of the New Jersey Defense Association — include helping Hoffman-La Roche Ltd. defeat a long-running mass tort over its acne drug Accutane. Mantell and her colleagues helped convince the New Jersey Supreme Court in August to employ stricter scrutiny, known as the Daubert standard, when evaluating the scientific reliability of evidence.
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