Kosmos, Stephanie B.

Paul Koethe has significant litigation experience in a broad range of complex product liability, commercial, and employment matters. Paul has experience in defending class actions, medical monitoring claims, claims by individuals for personal injury, economic damage claims brought under RICO and state consumer fraud statutes, and commercial disputes. He also has extensive experience in coordinating complex litigation and in handling appellate matters.

For more than 15 years Paul has been a part of the Jones Day team representing R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in product liability actions filed against Reynolds nationwide. He has coordinated litigation and represented Reynolds in state and federal cases throughout the country, including cases brought in Ohio, Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Washington. Paul has experience in every phase of litigation and has been a part of the trial teams in more than a dozen trials against Reynolds.

Paul also has experience in pharmaceutical product liability actions. He has represented Abbott Laboratories in coordinating more than 400 individual cases filed in Ohio on behalf of plaintiffs who alleged injuries as a result of in utero exposure to the pregnancy drug diethylstilbestrol (DES). This representation involved appellate work before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Ohio Supreme Court, resulting in new law holding that Ohio did not recognize market share liability as a viable theory of recovery. Paul also represented Abbott in nationwide defense of product liability suits brought in connection with its antibiotic drug Omniflox.

Paul also has been involved in numerous commercial and employment litigation matters for clients such as TRW, Eaton Corporation, and Lincoln Electric.

Paul is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. He is also actively involved in conducting training seminars for lawyers at the Firm.