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Partner
Litigation & Intellectual Property Practice
Atlanta
(404) 888-4117 Phone
(404) 888-4190 Fax
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Litigation Practice focuses on commercial disputes, consumer class actions and product liability, including medical device and pharmaceutical litigation, and eminent domain.
Relevant Experience 
Substantial experience with multidistrict and complex litigation involving medical devices, pharmaceuticals and other products, including regional defense counsel responsibility in litigation involving orthopedic bone screws, latex gloves and diet drugs, and defense of other cases involving amiodarone, metoclopramide, phentermine, and orthopedic implants. General product liability litigation and advice practice involving broad range of consumer and industrial products, including water heaters, control valves, air compressors, PVC products, concrete pipe, agricultural machinery, underground mining equipment, hand tools, liquid natural gas systems, cryogenic cylinders, asbestos, abrasive cutting machines, earth moving equipment, building materials, cellophane, tires, carpet, golf carts, food, and electrical devices. Representation of national restaurant company in commercial, intellectual property, real estate, personal injury and other litigation. Representation of international electronic products company in commercial, product liability and consumer class action litigation. Substantial trial experience involving overhead and underground electric distribution lines and equipment, including fires, explosions and numerous electrical contact cases. - Representation of tire manufacturer in product liability litigation.
- Representation of tobacco company in class action litigation.
Representation of employers and individuals in cases involving covenants not to compete, confidentiality agreements and intellectual property claims. Representation of petroleum pipeline company in class action arising out of pipeline rupture and EPA Clean Water Act enforcement action. Eminent domain practice for both condemning authorities and landowners, involving highways, electric transmission and distribution lines and other utility projects, as well as inverse condemnation. - Active pro bono practice focusing on domestic relations litigation and representation of indigent criminal defendants in United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Background
- Law Clerk, Hon. John Minor Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1979–80
Membership
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Member, State Bar of Georgia
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Member, Virginia State Bar
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Member, American Bar Association
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Member, Defense Research Institute and Drug & Medical Device Litigation Section
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Member, Product Liability Advisory Council
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Member, Old War Horse Lawyers Club
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Master, Bleckley Inn of Court
- Admitted to practice: U.S. Supreme Court, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh and District of Columbia United States Circuit Courts of Appeal
Awards and Professional Recognition
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Listed in Chambers USA for Litigation, 2007
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Named a Super Lawyer, as published in Atlanta Magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers magazine®, March 2004, March 2005, March 2006, March 2007, March 2008 in Business Litigation, Class Action/Mass Tort, and General Litigation categories
- Named by Georgia Trend magazine®, December 2005, 2006, and 2007 as a member of Georgia’s “Legal Elite” in the Personal Injury category and the Business Litigation category 2006
- Named by Who's Who Legal, in Product Liability category, 2007
Education - J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law, cum laude, Editor-in-Chief, Washington and Lee Law Review, 1979
- B.A., Washington and Lee University, cum laude, 1975
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Matthew Calvert
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