Practice Expertise

  • Life Sciences
  • Food and Agriculture Litigation and ...
  • International and Cross Border
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Areas of Practice

  • Food and Agriculture Litigation and ...
  • International and Cross Border
  • Life Sciences
  • Life Sciences Litigation
  • Product Liability
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Profile

Tripp Haston chairs Bradley’s Life Sciences Litigation team and chairs Bradley’s Litigation team’s Client Engagement & Advancement efforts. He represents a broad spectrum of clients on regional, national and international engagements.  He has been recognized nationally and internationally for his Life Sciences and Products Liability experience in numerous leading attorney directories, including The Best Lawyers in America®Chambers USABenchmark Litigation, and The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers. Tripp has served numerous clients as national trial and coordinating counsel and as a national team member in individual actions, as well as in mass tort and multidistrict litigation. His experience has involved matters throughout the United States as well as matters in Canada, Europe, Asia and South America.

Tripp is also active in the leadership of several legal and civil justice organizations. He is the past president of the International Association of Defense Counsel, an invitation-only, peer-reviewed organization of approximately 2,500 attorneys from more than 50 countries around the world. He has served as a member of DRI’s Board of Directors, the nation’s largest organization of defense counsel, as well as on the Board of Directors of Lawyers for Civil Justice, an organization comprised of leading corporate counsel and defense bar practitioners dedicated to promoting fairness in the U.S. civil justice system. He is the past chair of the Alabama State Bar’s Leadership Forum and the past president of the Young Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association. Finally, he is active in service to the United Way of Central Alabama and has served as an officer and board member of his community’s charitable foundation for its public schools.

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama, 1993

Court Admissions
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
  • United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
  • United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
  • United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama

Education

  • University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 1993, summa cum laude; Alabama Law Review; Order of the Coif
  • Auburn University, B.A., 1990, Mortar Board; Omicron Delta Kappa; Spades

Areas of Practice

  • Food and Agriculture Litigation and Regulatory
  • International and Cross Border
  • Life Sciences
  • Life Sciences Litigation
  • Product Liability

Blogs

Declassified

The Declassified blog offers commentary and insights on the latest class action suits, significant class action opinions, relevant changes to laws and rules, and important class action trends. Declassified covers topics ranging from significant Supreme Court and appellate court decisions regarding class certification requirements to proposed or enacted legislation, rules and regulations that impact class action litigation to key industry developments that may indirectly impact class action...

Patent 213

Patent law, like most things in life, is subject to change. Changes to patent laws not only impact investment in your existing IP, but directly shape strategies to protect your freedom to operate. The Patent 213 blog provides up-to-date, insightful analysis of the evolution in the written description and enablement requirements of 35 USC 112 and the subject matter eligibility requirements of 35 USC 101. The Patent 213 blog analyzes key decisions from the district courts and the Federal Circuit,...

The Law of Order

Bradley’s The Law of Order blog serves as a general parliamentary procedure resource, providing information about creation and revision of governing documents (constitutions, bylaws, or rules), application of Robert’s Rules of Order and other procedural authorities in a variety of contexts (such as nonprofits, political parties, homeowners associations, unions, churches, trade associations), and leadership of any type of organizational meeting. In an effort to make all things parliamentary more...

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