Norton Rose Fulbright’s environmental and mass torts team specializes in automotive and especially trucking-related litigation, offering clients such as Walmart extensive trial experience and in-depth industry expertise. Serving a wide array of clients including automakers, component manufacturers, freight lines, and rental businesses, the team particularly excels in coordinating multi-jurisdictional litigation, consumer class actions, nationwide discovery, safeguarding trade secrets, and managing multiple ongoing personal injury cases. The group is led by Houston based partner Brett Young , who has significant trial experience and expertise in catastrophic event response.
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- The firm have been advising Walmart and Sam’s Club on their automotive and tire litigation docket since 2015, now covering the entire United States. In our role as National Trial Counsel, the firm are now defending automotive-related lawsuits and develop and carry out strategic plans to enhance consistency in discovery response and protection of company witnesses, trade secrets and other confidential information in a cost-effective manner. Currently, the firm are advising Walmart on numerous ongoing cases, including pending cases in Georgia, Florida, Illinois, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The firm now advise Walmart in other areas, including consumer class actions, e-discovery, healthcare and intellectual property. The firm also are representing Walmart and Sam’s Club as part of its National Trial Counsel Team in handling parking lot strike cases (regarding parking lot design issues) in multiple states. The firm are representing Walmart in a wrongful death case filed in Hidalgo County, Texas, following an automobile accident that occurred in San Benito, Texas. The accident occurred when a tire failed and the vehicle lost control and rolled over. Two occupants died in the accident.
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Brett J. Young