| *Most recent Jury Verdict or Settlement: $2,500,000.00 Settlement in Contested Liability Motorcycle Accident. Motorcycle pulled out from between to left turn lanes. Below knee amputation, broken ribs and clavical. |
| *The results obtained in the cases listed were dependent upon the facts of the cases, and the results will differ in other cases based on different facts |
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PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWYERS
Mr. Henke is a product liability lawyer. He has successfully represented many seriously injured victims of a broad range of defective products. He would be very pleased to discuss with you the serious injuries you have sustained, and brainstorm the issues of manufacturer product liability presented by the facts of yours case. You will speak to Mr. Henke personally. The consultation is absolutely free.
º Mr. Henke is pleased to provide the benefit of his knowledge and information as a product liability lawyer without any obligation whatsoever, and encourages you to call, or fill out the easy to submit contact questionnaire.
Finding the Best Product Liability Lawyer For Your Case
º Mr. Henke will not pressure you to engage him as your product liability attorney. Indeed, he will encourage you to consider all your options, including by suggesting that you consider your choice of states in which to file your product liability action, e.g., the state in which the injury occurred, the state of incorporation of the manufacturer, the state of its principle place of business, and what might be the benefits or detriments of filing in one state over another. For some categories of product liability litigation, Mr. Henke will inform you of the availability of class actions, and will be willing also to consider with you the benefits and potential drawbacks of opting in or out of the class. Indeed, Mr. Henke is very well known nationally for preserving the product liability claimant's right to chose whether to participate or not in national class actions.
Inquire About the Credentials of Any Product Liability Lawyer Who You Would Consider to Represent You in Your Product Liability Case
º Mr. Henke will encourage you to investigate broadly the credentials of product liability lawyers who would be available to represent you. To that end, below he provides a list of questions you may wish to ask prospective product liability lawyers in order best to gauge their credentials.
Don't Hesitate To Call Product Liability Lawyers About Your Product Liability Case
º These conversations victims of product defects are important to Mr. Henke and all product liability lawyers, as these are the kinds of conversations that can also serve to alert product liability lawyers to new categories of product defects or the breadth of injuries which may be associated with known defective products.
º You should, therefore, feel welcome and encouraged to call and speak to Mr. Henke personally. Indeed you may be assured that your call will be welcomed by him. Or fill out the easy to submit contact-questionnaire and Mr. Henke promises to personally respond within 24 hours, guaranteed.
In Selecting an Attorney, You Should Interview Product Liability Lawyers And Ask About Their Credentials In Product Liability Cases
Below, Mr. Henke will provide the answers to the questions you should ask to determine the credentials of the product liability lawyers you would consider to represent you.
First, however, Mr. Henke will describe more specifically his experience as a product liability lawyer.
Mr. Henke's Experience As a Product Liability Lawyer
º As a product liability lawyer, Mr. Henke has prosecuted product liability cases against the manufacturers of products as diverse as automobiles, helmets, consumer products, industrial machines, medical devices, ethical pharmaceuticals, investigational drugs and even unapproved drugs and medical devices. Examples of the diversity of product liability cases successfully prosecuted by Mr. Henke include:
º As a product liability lawyer, Mr. Henke has served in suits against the manufacturers of trucks, e.g., on behalf of seriously injured cargo bed passengers, on the theory that the manufacturers failed to warn of the dangers of riding in the cargo bed.
º As a product liability lawyer, he successfully brought suit against the United States Polo Association and the manufacturer of the Caliente polo helmet arising out of the death of a world class professional polo player who fell from his horse at a Chicago match.
º As a product liability lawyer, he brought obtained a 6 figure settlement on behalf of an auto mechanic against the manufacturer of a can of freon which the mechanic hooked up backwards to his own car's air conditioning unit, causing the can to explode and seriously injure his hand.
º As a product liability lawyer, he successfully sued on behalf of a seriously injured industrial worker against the manufacturer of a "sausage maker" for failing to provide adequate safety devices to prevent the machine from engaging while the worker was cleaning it.
º As a product liability lawyer, he represented seriously injured victims of asbestos exposure, against asbestos product manufacturers.
º As a product liability lawyer, he successfully sued on behalf of seriously injured women, and children born with birth defects, against the manufacturers of "ethical" i.e., New Drug Application Approved pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
º As a product liability lawyer, he successfully sued on behalf of seriously injured children born with birth defects, e.g., against the manufacturer of Kevedon, i.e., Thalidomide, in suits brought three decades after the prenatal exposure and birth of the children with serious limb defects. The amounts of the settlements are the subject of confidentiality agreements.
º As a product liability lawyer, he obtained a multimillion dollar jury verdict on behalf of AIDS patients against the manufacturers of phony NDA and IND unapproved AIDS "cures," and the physicians who exploited their patients' desperation and vulnerability, defrauding them, taking their money, and stealing what remained of their health and life expectancies.
The Product Liability Lawyer's Success is Almost Always the Result of Obtaining the Evidence of the Product's Deficiencies, and then Putting Together a Highly Qualified Team of Experts to Testify on the Seriously Injured Plaintiff's Behalf.
º Mr. Henke is aggressive in his pursuit of the evidence in product liability cases, and has engaged some of the very finest experts in the world to testify for his product liability clients . In the last mentioned case, for example, Mr. Henke's experts included Luc Montagnier, the head of France's National AIDS Laboratories, and the discoverer of HIV; Michael Gotlieb, the physician who discovered AIDS, and co-founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research; Don Francis, the head of the CDC's first AIDS task force, and the epidemiologist who discovered that AIDS was a sexually transmitted disease; John Curnutte, the head of the largest and most promising AIDS vaccine research project in the world; Roger Detels, Chairman of the Epidemiology Department at the UCLA School of Health, and senior investigator on the largest and longest running epidemiological study in the world on AIDS patients and the efficacy of AIDS drugs; and a dozen others of the most highly regarded AIDS scientists in the world.
Often a Product Liability Lawyer's Reputation Can Be Confirmed By His Recognition By His Peers.
Mr. Henke is a former Governor of LATLA, the Fifth Largest Trial Attorney Bar in the United States. He was also Nominated for the "Trial Lawyer of the Year" Award by the same Association for his Work in a Product Liability Case.
The Reputation of a Successful Product Liability Lawyer Can Also Often Be Confirmed By His Recognition in the Legal And Lay Press.
º Mr. Henke has a national reputation as a product liability lawyer, his prosecution of these cases having been covered in the legitimate national press, from front page articles in the New York Times to front page articles in the Los Angeles Times, in feature and cover magazine articles, in legitimate national television news, e.g., Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News and CNN, in book chapters, and Mr. Henke has testified before Congress, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, about his prosecution of 10 of these cases, and his use of punitive damages as a means to "send a message," to society of the reprehensibility of the drug purveyor's conduct.
Mr. Henke cares about the product liability claimants he represents, and his caring shows in the quality of the representation he provides as a product liability lawyer.
The following are general qualification questions that Mr. Henke recommends, and that you may wish to ask any product liability lawyer who you would consider to represent you in your product liability lawsuit. Mr. Henke also affirmatively provides his answers to the questions, should you wish to consider his credentials as you make this crucially important decision in selecting the best product liability lawyers for your case.
Call Mr. Henke Toll Free, or Fill Out the Easy to Submit Questionnaire, And Mr. Henke will Call You Within 24 Hours, Guaranteed.
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Attorney Legal Qualification Questions: What You Should Ask Any Product Liability Lawyer Who You Would Consider for Your Product liability Case About His Qualities And Experience As A Trial Attorney.
QUESTION:
Is the product liability lawyer rated by Martindale and Hubble? And if so, what is his "Legal Ability" rating and "General Ethical Standards" rating?
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke's answer is that he has the very highest Martindale & Hubbell "legal ability" rating, "A" [from Very High to Preeminent]; and the very highest "General Ethical Standards" rating, "V" [Very High]. It is a rating that Mr. Henke has received for all of the past decade of his career.
QUESTION:
Has the lawyer served as prosecuting counsel in litigation involving substantial injuries, and then obtained substantial settlements and jury verdicts?
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke has served as counsel in many serious injury cases over the course of his career and has obtained numerous substantial settlements and jury verdicts, including million dollar settlements and million dollar jury verdicts.
Most Recent Example:
$2.9 Million Jury Verdict in pharmaceutical product case involving unapproved AIDS drug. Mr. Henke represented 5 AIDS Patients defrauded by AIDS fraud doctor and conspiring hospital for use of unapproved drug.
Required Disclaimer. The results obtained in those cases were dependent upon the facts of the cases, and the results will differ in other cases based on different facts.
QUESTION:
Have the product liability lawyers been recognized by their peers as established, superior trial lawyers?
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke was first an invited, and then elected, and then reelected again and again Governor of LATLA, the fifth largest trial lawyers association in the United States.
Mr. Henke was also nominated by the LATLA Board for the most highly coveted "Trial Lawyer of the Year" Award for his work in a product liability case.
Mr. Henke invited to serve and served for years in the prestigious position of the Editor-in-Chief of LATLA's legal journal, "THE ADVOCATE."
QUESTION:
Has the product liability attorney obtained positive recognition in and outside the legal profession?
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke has a national reputation as an effective, successful, aggressive and determined product liability attorney as reflected in scores of newspaper articles about Mr. Henke and his work, published in legitimate national legal periodicals, legitimate national newspapers, magazines, and national television. Mr. Henke also testified before Congress at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives on his legal work in several cases, including his use of claims for punitive damages to set examples of defendants who consciously disregard the safety, health and rights of others.
QUESTION:
Can the product liability lawyer verify that he is an effective legal advocate, by citation to important published appellate victories he has achieved? A lawyer's appellate success matters because it is a good measure of the attorney's vitally important general ability to argue and persuade on legal issues, and this is important for any product liability case. It is an ability that is not just essential on appeals. It is an ability essential to the product liability attorney's effectiveness in meeting all the big and small challenges presented at every stage of product liability litigation, e.g., by pretrial motions, which can seriously affect settlement posture of the product liability case as well as the respective parties' important advantages or disadvantages at trial. Your attorney's willingness to ask the appellate court to immediately reverse a bad pretrial decision that guts the product liability case may also be essential to achieve the quickest and best result. Legal advocacy is also a talent essential during trial, as the trial lawyer must be able to effectively argue legal issues, e.g., the admissibility of the defendant's admission of fault for the product liability or the inadmissibility of prejudicial medical or character evidence, or the permissibility of expert opinion testimony, etc. Then, if you "hit big" at trial in your product liability case, the defendant is almost certain to appeal, and you may then require superior legal advocacy to hold on to your victory.
ANSWER:
Mr. Henke has had extraordinary published and verifiable appellate victories in product liability litigation. As one example, on behalf of a single aggrieved product liability client Mr. Henke obtained the reversal of a $120,000,000 Ohio Federal District Court approved product liability settlement purporting to bind 1000 product liability claimants joined in the Ohio Court and all others injured by the product nationwide. On a petition for writ of mandate to the United States Court of Appals for the Sixth Circuit, Mr. Henke also obtained the reversal of the Ohio Federal District Court's certification of a national mandatory product liability class action. Mr. Henke's argument, accepted by the Court of Appeals as requiring both decisions was that Mr. Henke's client was denied his right to counsel of his choice and control over his individual litigation. The appellate decision effected an important and enduring change in the law severely restricting the availability of mandatory, as opposed to voluntary class actions in "mass disaster" litigation. This decision could also in product liability product liability cases.
As another example, when a trial judge applied newly enacted tort reform legislation to deprive Mr. Henke's client of his punitive damage claims, Mr. Henke obtained a stay of the trial and filed in the Court of Appeals an "extraordinary writ" seeking an immediate reversal of the trial court's order. The Court granted the writ of mandamus, ordering the trial court to reverse its order and permit Henke's client to pursue his punitive damage claim. It also rendered an important published appellate opinion reinterpreting the repressive tort reform legislation to deprive it of most of its negative force and effect.
Mr. Henke has also obtained extraordinary unpublished appellate victories, including the reversal of a judge's summary judgment order denying a paraplegic product liability victim his day in court. The young, teenage plaintiff, had been riding home from school in the back of his friend's pick up truck. The product liability suit was originally brought by a very highly qualified New Jersey product liability lawyer, appearing pro hac vice in California, on the theories of negligent and strict product liability "failure to warn"against the foreign truck manufacturer. The manufacturer argued and the trial court agreed that the dangers of riding in the back of a pick up truck are "open and obvious" as a matter of law, rendering "failure to warn" product liability theory untenable, and "threw the case out of court." The New Jersey product liability attorney contacted Mr. Henke for help in overturning the trial court's ruling. Mr. Henke prosecuted the appeal from the trial court's ruling and judgment, in which Mr. Henke cited not only to the evidence of the dangers, but to the legislative history, pointing out that in the year prior to the accident, then Governor Wilson had vetoed legislation which would have made it illegal to ride in the back of pick up trucks, and quoted the Governor's remarks. If the dangers of riding in the back of a pick up truck were not "open and obvious" to Governor Wilson, Mr. Henke argued, then the trial court was out of line in ruling that the product dangers were "open and obvious" as a matter of law. The Court of Appeals overturned the trial court's summary judgment and ordered that the young product liability plaintiff be allowed his day in court.
Your Product liability Lawyers Legal Qualifications Are Matters That You Should Consider In Selection An Attorney for your Product liability Case.
The product liability lawyer's recognition by Martindale Hubbell, his recognition by his peers, his local and national reputation, his trial successes, and his appellate successes, are all matters, that you should want to inquire about in selecting the right product liability lawyers for your serious injury case.
Additional of Mr. Henke's credentials are set forth on the separate page "Mr. Henke, the Trial Lawyer" page.
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