Shook, Hardy & Bacon Global Product Liability Partner Holly Pauling Smith
and Agribusiness & Food Safety Co-Chair Madeleine McDonough have
co-authored this chapter on the consumer-fraud class actions to which
plaintiffs’ lawyers have resorted given their inability to persuade courts to
certify personal-injury mass torts. The chapter, which focuses on recent cases
involving health-related claims or omissions for food and beverage products,
appears in an international reference on class and group actions. Smith and
McDonough have also contributed a chapter discussing how the class-action
procedure functions in the United States.

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For decades, manufacturers, distributors and retailers at every link in the food chain have come to Shook, Hardy & Bacon to partner with a legal team that understands the issues they face in today's evolving food production industry. Shook attorneys work with some of the world's largest food, beverage and agribusiness companies to establish preventative measures, conduct internal audits, develop public relations strategies, and advance tort reform initiatives.

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