Law, Carol

Mr. Lasker litigates a wide variety of complex civil matters, with a current focus on toxic torts, environmental litigation, Alien Tort Statute litigation, and pharmaceutical products liability. Mr. Lasker has represented clients in a variety of civil and criminal government investigation-related matters involving bank regulatory compliance, False Claims Act claims, and alleged price fixing, and he served as lead counsel in successfully defending a foreign client against a Foreign Corrupt Practices claim in a jury trial that was featured in the Legal Times. He represents clients in jury and bench trials, before arbitral panels and administrative courts, and both at trial and on appeal.

Mr. Lasker has significant experience defending against varied theories of liability in the areas of FDA- and EPA-regulated products and environmental law. He has represented clients in pharmaceutical products liability claims involving antipsychotic medications, obstetrical drugs, antifungals, and cough/cold medicines, and in toxics/environmental matters involving herbicides, asbestos, lead paint, nonionizing radiation, and chemical solvents. He has developed and implemented key medical causation defenses, and he has successfully litigated issues involving Daubert, the federal preemption defense, and natural resource damages claims, and he is frequently asked to speak and write on these issues. He has represented clients in matters arising both in the United States and abroad, and in matters arising under both domestic and international law. He also assists clients in due diligence investigations as relates to environmental and toxics liabilities and through amicus briefing on key legal issues.

Mr. Lasker played a prominent role in helping to establish asbestos defendants’ rights to insurance non-products coverage through a successful amicus effort that secured one of the seminal judicial opinions recognizing the existence of such coverage, litigation efforts resulting in securing several hundreds of millions of dollars in asbestos non-products insurance recoveries, and oral presentations and publications on issues involving non-products coverage. He has also defended personal injury claims in asbestos litigation, advancing medical causation defenses.

Mr. Lasker serves on the Board of Editors of LJN's Product Liability Law & Strategy newsletter. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) and the Vice Chair of Programming for the Toxics & Hazardous Substances Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), an invitation-only organization of attorneys representing corporations and insurers.