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40 Inverness Drive East
Denver, CO 80112
Phone: 303.792.5595
Fax: 303.708.0527
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Janet G. Abaray |
Janet Gilligan Abaray acts as managing shareholder for the Cincinnati office of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. She graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Cincinnati School of Law where she was Business Manager of the Law Review. She is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Sixth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits and the United States Supreme Court.
Ms. Abaray has litigated extensively in the area of pharmaceutical products liability, beginning her career as defense counsel for Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in the Bendectin products liability class action and multi-district litigation (MDL), where she acted as third chair trial counsel. Since 1987, she has represented plaintiffs in many over-the-counter and prescription drug cases, including the L-Tryptophan MDL, the Copley Albuterol class action litigation, where she acted as co-lead trial counsel, and the Fen-Phen/Redux diet pill class action and MDL, where she acted as lead trial counsel for plaintiffs at the Interneuron class action fairness hearing. Currently, Ms. Abaray and Michael Burg are Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs in the Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Multidistrict Litigation pending in the Northern District of Ohio. In July 2008, Ms. Abaray was appointed to the Executive Committee for the Heparin Product Liability Multi-District Litigation. Ms. Abaray was appointed to this position by The Honorable James G. Carr, federal judge presiding over the Heparin Product Liability Multi-District Litigation in the Northern District of Ohio. The Executive Committee is charged with coordinating the responsibilities of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) including scheduling meetings of the PSC, keeping minutes or transcripts of those meetings, appearance at periodic court noticed status conferences, other necessary administrative or logistic functions of the PSC and any other duty as the Court may order. The PSC is responsible for the coordinated and consolidated conduct of all discovery on behalf of and for the benefit of all plaintiffs. Ms. Abaray has also been named to the Executive Committee in the Human Tissue Multidistrict Litigation, pending in the District of New Jersey, and she serves as Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel and a member of the Plaintiffs' Coordinating Committee for the Ephedra Products Liability Multidistrict Litigation pending in the Southern District of New York.
Ms. Abaray also represents plaintiffs in many insurance and contract disputes. She was the co-lead trial counsel on behalf of 8000 farmers in the Chubb drought insurance class action litigation, participated as trial counsel on behalf of 2000 Cincinnati area physicians in the ChoiceCare HMO litigation, and represented Cincinnati area newspaper carriers in consolidated actions against the Cincinnati Enquirer. She represented 40,000 season ticket holders of the Cincinnati Bengals football team in a successful class action concerning their seat licenses in Paul Brown Stadium. Ms. Abaret has established national precedent in the area of employment discrimination, successfully arguing in litigation against Ernst & Young to broaden the scope of persons protected by the federal age discrimination statute.
Ms. Abaray serves as Treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Ohio Association for Justice, and in 1998, received a Distinguished Service Award for her work on behalf of the Academy. Cincinnati Magazine recognized her as one of Cincinnati's best litigation attorneys in 1995, and she was named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Ms. Abaray has achieved the highest rating from her peers for quality of legal work, professionalism, and ethics by receiving an "AV" rating by Martindale-Hubbell.
Ms. Abaray has served as a faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and lectures frequently in the areas of products liability litigation, trial techniques and epidemiology. She has published articles in journals of the American Bar Association, Litigation Section, the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers Association, the University of Cincinnati Law Review and the University of Dayton Law Review.
Practice Areas
- Complex Litigation
- Civil Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Products Liability
- Personal Injury
- Breach of Contract
- Defective Drugs, Medical
Devices,
Defective Products and Diseases
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Courts of Appeal, Sixth, Third, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits
- U.S. District Courts, Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio
- U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
Education
- J.D., 1982, University of Cincinnati School of Law
- B.A., 1979, University of Cincinnati, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, summa cum laude
Honors / Awards
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Order of the Coif
- Business Manager, University of Cincinnati Law Review, 1981-1982
- Distinguished Service Award, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1998
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Professional Affiliations
- Cincinnati Bar Association
- Ohio Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association (Member, Annual Convention Committee, 2004)
- American Association for Justice
- Ohio Association for Justice (Member, 2003—, Vice President, 2008, Secretary, 2006-2007 and Treasurer, 2007, Board of Trustees)
