Profile - Janet L. Hickson

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Company

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
5 Park Plz Ste 1600
Irvine, CA 92614

Phone

(949) 475-1730

Member Bio

Janet Hickson’s practice focuses on product liability litigation. She has significant experience representing the manufacturers and distributors of automobiles, motorcycles, food products, consumer products, industrial equipment, and medical devices. She has also represented entertainment and amusement park venues, in addition to handling a range of commercial litigation matters.

Janet has successfully defended cases of all sizes, including catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits. She has also overseen national and regional defense counsel programs implemented to manage repetitive litigation involving design, manufacture and warnings defect claims.

Janet has considerable experience acting as national discovery counsel for her clients. She regularly advises clients on a variety of discovery issues including the development of effective, efficient and defensible electronic discovery procedures.

Matters of Note

First chair trial of premises liability action representing entertainment restaurant venue; obtained defense verdict (October 2012).

Obtained summary judgment on behalf of motorcycle manufacturer in product liability case (May 2012).

Second chair of eight-week jury trial involving design defect and failure to warn claims; obtained defense verdict on behalf of motorcycle manufacturer (December 2011).

Publications and Presentations

Presenter, Voir Dire Strategies in Complex Products Cases, American Bar Association, Scottsdale, Arizona (March 2013).

Presenter, Harnessing the Power of the Internet: How Social Media Analysis Informs Jury Research and Trial Strategy, American Bar Association, Scottsdale, Arizona (March 2012).

Co-author, The Post-Magaña World: How the Washington Supreme Court’s Unprecedented Approach to Discovery Impacts You, the Whisper (Defense Research Institute), May 2010.

Memberships

State Bar of California
Defense Research Institute
Product Liability Advisory Council

Licenses

Janet is admitted to practice before the state courts of California.

Education

1998 J.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law

1994 B.A., University of California, Irvine (Criminology, Law & Society)

Firm Information

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. is an international law firm with a legacy spanning more than a century. Established in Kansas City in 1889, today the firm has grown to more than 1,200 employees worldwide, with more than 450 attorneys and 200 analysts and paraprofessionals. The firm has 11 offices strategically located in Geneva, Houston, Kansas City, London, Miami, Orange County, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington, D.C.

SHB is committed to being the best in the world at providing creative and practical solutions at unsurpassed value. We are deeply passionate about achieving the best results for our clients from the boardroom to the courtroom and sustaining a diverse environment where everyone is respected, feels appreciated, and experiences fulfillment and enjoyment through meaningful personal contributions.

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Practice Areas
Products Liability

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Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Product Liability
Women in the Law

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