Thomas Yoo

Thomas Yoo is a Los Angeles litigation attorney and leader of the firm's Product Liability Life Sciences Team. Mr. Yoo's practice includes a variety of product liability matters and commercial disputes. He has served in national, regional and trial counsel, and other strategic, roles on behalf of leading companies in numerous industries, including life sciences, manufacturing, financial services, real estate, transportation and private investment ventures. Mr. Yoo handles a wide range of complex cases, negotiations and exposures, from prescription pharmaceuticals and medical devices to environmental toxic exposure matters, from mass torts involving thousands of cases to individual contract actions. He has in-depth experience in cross-border business disputes, federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) and statewide coordinations, class action defense and high-profile matters garnering national media attention. In addition to crafting litigation and trial strategy, Mr. Yoo regularly handles complex scientific issues faced by his clients in life sciences and toxic tort litigations. From safety data in U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-reviewed randomized clinical trials to differential risk signals and covariate analyses in epidemiologic research and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) evaluations, from clinical outcomes and medical causation issues to biologic mechanisms and laboratory biomarker studies, Mr. Yoo defends his clients with a comprehensive understanding of the scientific issues implicated in the litigation. Mr. Yoo has worked with leading scientists and medical doctors, and has handled the cross-examination and Daubert challenges of experts, in a variety of fields, including cardiology, neurology, oncology, epidemiology, gynecology, pulmonology, pharmacology, toxicology, hematology, metallurgy, vascular biology, rheumatology and pharmacokinetics. In Legal 500 USA's annual national rankings of top law firms, Mr. Yoo is described as "an excellent strategist."