Colin Kelly Toxic Torts Lawyer of the Year USA

About Colin Kelly

Colin Kelly is a partner in the firm's Products Liability and Litigation & Trial Practice Groups. He focuses his practice in the areas of toxic torts, mass torts and complex commercial litigation. Colin has bet-the-company crisis management experience in catastrophic loss matters. Colin also has a history of trying difficult cases in difficult places: over the past four years, he has tried numerous fatal cancer cases

to verdict for Union Carbide

Corporation. He recently served as national coordinating counsel to a green technology company involved in consumer product- related lawsuits throughout the United States and Canada. Colin has litigated complex matters for more than 10 different Fortune 500 companies and has prepared cases for trial in 15 different states.

Representative Engagements • Trial counsel for Union Carbide Corporation in connection with its ongoing toxic tort cases in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Delaware, Missouri, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and

Areas of Expertise • Toxic Torts • Mass Torts

Contact

Colin K. Kelly Partner

Alston & Bird LLP 1201 W. Peachtree Street Atlanta, GA 30309

Tel: 404-881-7670 Fax: 404-253-8681 Email: colin.kelly@alston.com Website: www.alston.com

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About Alston & Bird

With more than 800 attorneys, Alston & Bird is a leading national AmLaw 50 firm. The firm’s core practice areas are intellectual property, complex litigation, corporate and tax, with national industry focuses in energy and sustainability, health care, financial services and public policy. The firm has built a reputation as one of the country’s best employers, appearing on FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 14 consecutive years, an unprecedented accomplishment among law firms in the United States. The firm has offices in Atlanta, Brussels, Charlotte, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Research Triangle, Silicon Valley, Ventura County and Washington, D.C.

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Maryland. Past litigation experience in California, Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Arkansas and West Virginia.

• Counsel to Imperial Sugar Company in connection with various government investigations of the Savannah Sugar Refinery explosion in 2008.

• Counsel to AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in its nationwide defense of lawsuits involving its antipsychotic medication Seroquel.

• Obtained two major appellate victories in 2007 for a large public REIT.

• Counsel to several pulp/paper and containerboard manufacturing companies.

• First-chair trial counsel defense verdict for a global shipping and logistics company in a contract discrimination and defamation matter.

• Crisis Management • Products Liability

• Commercial Litigation • Shale Gas Extraction / Hydraulic Fracturing

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