John has an established track record of successfully representing clients in individual cases and class actions.
He focuses on developing strategies to achieve success at the trial court level and to ensure those victories can be upheld on appeal. John has significant experience briefing and arguing constitutional questions, punitive damages issues, jury instructions, and other complex (and often unsettled) legal issues. He frequently serves as legal issues and appellate preservation counsel at trial and has been a member of approximately 30 trial teams, many of which were multiweek jury trials.
John has represented manufacturers of a broad range of products, including cigarettes, smokeless tobacco products, prescription pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals. He also represents companies in complex commercial litigation and has significant experience responding to bankruptcy filings by adverse parties.
In addition to his domestic litigation practice, John frequently collaborates with national litigation counsel to represent clients in novel litigation internationally. He has recently coordinated the defense of major matters in Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe.
John maintains an active pro bono practice representing individuals and nonprofit organizations. He most recently worked with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project in a successful bid to have a judge vacate the convictions of three men wrongfully convicted of murder that has received national media attention. John previously collaborated with New York City’s Legal Aid Society on class action litigation that resulted in increased rent subsidies for families with children on public assistance who were facing eviction.