Lawrie E. Demorest is co-leader of Alston & Bird’s Toxic Tort team and focuses her practice on complex litigation including mass torts, class actions and commercial matters. Ms. Demorest has experience defending toxic tort, medical device and consumer products cases in a variety of jurisdictions around the country, all of which involve extensive work with expert witnesses in various fields of science and medicine. She has served on several national trial and litigation teams including multi-district litigation and class actions, and has tried over 55 cases to juries with a highly favorable success rate.
Ms. Demorest has served on the faculty of the Atlanta Institute of Trial Advocacy and is a past member of the Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court. She is a member of the Defense Research Institute and a lecturer on topics common to product liability and medical malpractice litigation. Ms. Demorest also serves on the editorial board of the journal Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy. She is a member of the board of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
Lawrie E. Demorest is co-leader of Alston & Bird’s Toxic Tort team and focuses her practice on complex litigation including mass torts, class actions and commercial matters. Ms. Demorest has experience defending toxic tort, medical device and consumer products cases in a variety of jurisdictions around the country, all of which involve extensive work with expert witnesses in various fields of science and medicine. She has served on several national trial and litigation teams including multi-district litigation and class actions, and has tried over 55 cases to juries with a highly favorable success rate.
Ms. Demorest has served on the faculty of the Atlanta Institute of Trial Advocacy and is a past member of the Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court. She is a member of the Defense Research Institute and a lecturer on topics common to product liability and medical malpractice litigation. Ms. Demorest also serves on the editorial board of the journal Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy. She is a member of the board of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
Ms. Demorest has also defended medical malpractice cases for 25 years. During that time she has represented hospitals, clinics, physicians of various specialties, nurses and other health care providers on a breadth of issues. She served as Northeast and Southeast Regional Counsel to a national owner of behavioral health facilities, managing and directing their litigation in 10 states.
Ms. Demorest's representation has encompassed pre-litigation counseling, crisis management, developing and implementing strategies to shut down pending and potential individual and class actions, managing local counsel and mass trial dockets, and effecting settlements through various forms of alternative dispute resolution and non-litigation solutions. Additional consumer products and toxic tort cases Ms. Demorest has defended, include representation of national railroad in the defense of solvent-related injuries by railroad workers, landlords sued for lead paint-related injuries, optical solutions manufacturer and food suppliers.