Profile - Justin D. Howard

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McGuireWoods LLP
800 E Canal St
Richmond, VA 23219

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(804) 775-1000

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Justin is the co-leader of McGuireWoods’ Product Liability & Mass Tort practice group. He is a trial lawyer who defends manufacturers and distributors in product liability claims and represents businesses in a wide range of high-stakes commercial litigation matters. Justin handles complex litigation in state and federal courts and has represented companies and individuals at trial in a variety of matters. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Richmond School of Law, teaching trial advocacy.
Justin has defended leading companies in a wide range of industries, from banking to waste management. He leads national and regional defense teams, and advises and trains clients in strategic risk management.

Martindale-Hubbell has recognized Justin with their AV Preeminent peer rating, and Woodward/White, Inc. has included him in its list of Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation-Defendants. In 2020, The National Law Journal named Justin a “Litigation Trailblazer.” He also has been listed in “North Carolina Super Lawyers” and Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” lists. In 2011, he was the recipient of Business Leader Magazine’s Mover and Shaker Award for Dedication to Community and Excellence in Leadership.

Prior to entering law school, Justin served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years.

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Experience, Business Focus and Value
McGuireWoods has been a strong, well-respected and expanding firm for more than 175 years. This legacy is a testament to our lawyers’ experience across business and industry, as well as our consistent ability to deliver an excellent legal product — efficiently and at a fair price. Some of our clients have been with us for nearly 50 years, which speaks to the level of service we provide and the mutual loyalty we engender.

Practical Parameters
McGuireWoods has more than 900 lawyers in 19 offices around the world. We cross borders, practices and industries in the U.S., UK, Belgium and elsewhere around the world, collaborating with colleagues and managing resources in the Nordic countries, Russia and Eurasia, Eastern Europe, China, Africa, the Middle East, India, Spain, Portugal and South America. We have unique cooperative arrangements with Paris law firm, KGA, and in Israel with Shenhav Konforti Shavit & Co (SKS). Our international practice is further enhanced by our participation in the global legal networks, Lex Mundi and LNI.

Value in Management, Discovery and Technology
Our practical profile also includes a business-minded focus on value — be it an executive’s bottom-line perspective or a general counsel’s budgetary constraints. We look for ways to help our clients make money, save money, and sleep better. Because of our business approach to legal problems, we invest significantly in innovative processes and technology. McGuireWoods’ Legal Project Management tailors our processes to be of particular value to the client organization. Our innovations in discovery are also central to value. McGuireWoods’ document collection and discovery processes are among the most sophisticated and efficient available today. Clients not only receive senior-level, hands-on discovery advice, but our discovery team also includes in-house professionals experienced in running trial presentation software in front of a jury.

Value through Alternative Fee Arrangement
Cost always matters — bears or bulls. McGuireWoods is equally innovative in offering value billing arrangements and fee-structuring in alignment with client needs and metrics. More than 25 percent of major firm clients are working with us on the basis of one or more alternative fee arrangements.

Value through McGuireWoods Consulting
Complementing our legal services, McGuireWoods Consulting — our full-service public affairs subsidiary — offers federal, state and local government relations advice; strategic communications; grassroots advocacy; and infrastructure and economic development services. We can help our clients stay ahead of — and even have a voice in — important regulatory developments that affect their businesses.

Service to Clients and the Community
McGuireWoods has built a service culture within our firm which also extends to each client contact. As a result, our clients develop an emotional investment in our people and our work. In 2013, BTI Consulting Group named McGuireWoods the No. 4 “Client Service A-Team” law firm of the 650 law firms serving Fortune 1000 companies — recognition that earned our firm a spot on BTI’s “Client Service 30” list. McGuireWoods is also among a select group of law firms in the country to be named to BTI’s Client Service Standouts list.

A recommendation means that our clients are willing to stake their reputations on trust in us — what we do, who we bring to the team, the technology we invest in and our business-alignment approach to the practice of law. A client recommendation translates to pride and confidence in having McGuireWoods represent them.

Our firm not only invests in our clients and each other, but also in our communities and society through both a thriving pro bono program and national and local nonprofit volunteerism and fundraising.

If you like our profile, wait until you meet our people.

Core Values
Excellence, Client Service, Integrity, Collegiality, Community
These values guide our work and define our firm as a responsible, ethical citizen of the global business world.

Central to McGuireWoods’ culture, our core values inspire us to serve all clients — and the larger human community — with pride and integrity.

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Practice Areas
Commercial Litigation
Employment Law
General Litigation
Industry-Wide Litigation
Mass Tort
Medical Liability
Products Liability
Professional Liability
Trial Tactics

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