Schiff Hardin has been defending asbestos-related personal injury and property damage cases for more than 25 years. We have served as lead trial counsel in cases tried from New York to California, and throughout the Midwest and Southeast.

We have been actively involved in most major asbestos-related issues litigated at a national level, including those raised in MDL 875 and in the U.S. Supreme Court in Amchem, Ortiz and Buckley.

Our firm has worked up thousands of asbestos-related cases. There is no aspect of document or deposition discovery with which we are not familiar. We have developed defenses concerning medical diagnosis, substantial factor causation, and state-of-the-art technology.

We are often called upon to serve as special medical counsel to our clients with respect to particularly difficult medical or scientific issues that arise in difficult jurisdictions nationwide. For example, we handled all aspects of a two-day evidentiary hearing concerning an attempt to alter the medical criteria embodied in the Baltimore, Md., inactive docket. We have taken the lead in challenging the admissibility of "junk science" causation opinions in various jurisdictions.

Our attorneys have worked closely with medical, industrial hygiene, and state-of-the-art experts. We are intimately familiar with both the national and local experts used by plaintiffs.