Jillian focuses her practice on product liability litigation and product regulatory compliance. She represents major corporate clients in all aspects of product liability, including successfully defending catastrophic injury and death claims and large-scale environmental toxic and exposure claims. She defends companies in a variety of industries, including consumer goods, highway safety products, chemicals, medical devices, and cosmetics. She serves as national counsel for a consumer safety product manufacturer and highway safety product manufacturer in product liability matters throughout the United States. Jillian provides counsel in all phases of litigation, from pre-suit investigation and negotiations through trial and appeal. She has successfully represented clients in all facets of high-stakes federal and state litigation, including jury trials.
Beyond litigation, Jillian offers strategic advice to companies regarding product regulatory compliance and approval, risk mitigation, product development, labeling, good manufacturing practices and procedures, and a wide range of matters across the regulated product life cycle. Jillian helps clients assess their compliance with U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), and other agency regulations; determine when it is appropriate to notify CPSC of potential safety issues; avoid unnecessary recalls; develop effective corrective action plans; and defend penalty investigations.
As a former assistant district attorney at the District Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia (through the firm’s year-long secondment program), Jillian effectively handled hundreds of criminal trials and felony preliminary hearings. Jillian earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh.