Perkins Coie is happy to introduce, Julie L. Hussey as a new partner in the San Diego office, in the Product Liability practice. Hussey comes from DLA Piper in San Diego where she was a partner. She is the fourth partner joining Perkins Coie’s San Diego office this year, along with Tom Millikan, Joe Reid and Laura Zager in February.
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“Perkins Coie is delighted to welcome Julie to the firm’s growing presence in San Diego,” said Matthew Bernstein, Office Managing Partner of Perkins Coie;s San Diego office. “Julie’s pharmaceutical litigation practice complements the work of our patent litigators in San Diego and her counsel to manufacturers of consumer healthcare products in labeling and unfair competition issues supports the efforts of the attorneys in Perkins Coie’s food and beverage practice and food litigation practices in California. We are tremendously happy that Julie has joined our firm.”
Hussey went to the University of Alabama School of Law, where she earned her J.D. and was the lead article writer for The Journal of the Legal Profession and received her undergraduate degree from the Mississippi University for Women. She is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute and the Food and Drug Law Institute.
Hussey was also a project manager, volunteer for the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Legal Assistance program and a Hurricane Katrina Legal Volunteer for the Mississippi Center for Justice.
“Julie brings significant pharmaceutical and medical device product liability experience to Perkins Coie,” said Bruce Campbell, chair of Perkins Coie’s Product Liability practice. “Her substantive experience in drug and medical device, food and beverage, toxic tort and class action litigation matters immediately deepens and broadens the scope of our existing high level of counsel and client service that is expected from Perkins Coie and the product liability practice. Julie is a wonderful asset to Perkins Coie’s deep bench of litigators and we welcome her to the firm.”
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