Candace Ali Blydenburgh Partner

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Candace is a partner in the firm’s Environmental and Mass Tort Litigation department. Her practice involves representation of corporate defendants in high exposure, complex cases in state and federal courts throughout the country as well as advising on insurance recovery matters for corporate clients.

Candace has tried several cases to verdict in numerous jurisdictions including Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Puerto Rico. Candace’s diverse trial experience includes significant personal injury, product liability and intentional tort cases, toxic exposure matters, and breach of contract actions.

Candace has significant experience in the medical, energy, and automotive industries. She defends medical device manufacturers and distributors in litigation across the country involving surgical and non-surgical products. Candace handles environmental nuisance allegations as well as environmental groundwater contamination cases. She has been retained to defend companies against negligence claims as well as consumer product and fraud allegations. She serves as advisor for nationwide litigation which includes discussions about risk mitigation and/or avoidance, preparing corporate witnesses for depositions and trials, ensuring consistency in motion practice and developing trial strategies. In addition, Candace has represented automotive manufacturers against claims involving electronic stability control, seats, seat belts, and restraints for small occupants and children.

In addition, Candace has managed litigation for national and multi-district matters. She coordinated discovery in a recreational vehicle MDL and has served as national coordinating discovery counsel for a transportation networking company; and national coordinating counsel/trial monitoring counsel for a transportation company. Currently, Candace serves as national coordinating counsel for a transportation company and national product liability counsel for a medical device company.

Experience

  • Serve as national product liability counsel for Fortune 500 medical device company.
  • Represent Fortune 500 companies in product liability, nuisance MTBE litigation and insurance recovery actions.
  • Serve as trial counsel in matters involving significant injuries to children and/or wrongful death.
  • Represent and serve as trial counsel for company involving claims of intentional tort and fraud.
  • Served as national discovery and coordinating counsel and monitoring trial counsel for a Fortune 50 transportation company.
  • Represent a Fortune 1000 company in breach of contract action.
  • Served as monitoring counsel on behalf of a technology company regarding the handling of sensitive personal injury actions by panel counsel.
  • Prepare and defend corporate representatives and employees in product liability, consumer product and significant exposure litigation.
  • Represented Fortune 500 companies in breach of warranty and consumer protection actions.
  • Coordinated document collection and review of electronic and hard copy materials and negotiate preservation order for Fortune 500 company in multidistrict litigation.
  • Served as national coordinating counsel for transportation network company.