James D. Pagliaro

Partner

James D. Pagliaro is the leader of Morgan Lewis's Global Litigation Practice. Mr. Pagliaro's practice focuses almost exclusively on toxic tort and product liability litigation. He has acted as national coordinating and trial counsel for more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies and several international corporations. Mr. Pagliaro also heads a firmwide interdisciplinary team composed of tort, environmental, construction and insurance coverage lawyers who work together on client service teams on toxic tort, product liability and other complex litigation matters.

Mr. Pagliaro has litigated several cases involving the scientific and medical aspects of tort litigation. Additionally, Mr. Pagliaro was lead trial counsel for the defense in two product liability cases featured by the National Law Journal as one of the Top Ten Defense Verdicts of the year. Mr. Pagliaro also has experience handling general commercial litigation, environmental liability, class action and OSHA law matters.

From 1979 to 1985, Mr. Pagliaro was an attorney with the Office of the Regional Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor in Philadelphia, where he handled OSHA prosecutions. Later, he was named Senior Trial Counsel with responsibility for the Labor Department's Black Lung litigation efforts in Region III.

An active speaker and writer, Mr. Pagliaro has had several articles published in the National Law Journal. He also has written extensively on product liability issues including published articles comparing Japan's and the EC's product liability law with U.S. product liability.

Mr. Pagliaro is a lecturer on the "Essentials of Pennsylvania Practice" and "Class Actions" for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Mr. Pagliaro is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. Supreme Court.