Eric A. Paine

As a lawyer focused in the sciences, Eric Paine’s practice concentrates on medical and scientific issues in the defense of pharmaceutical products liability litigation, which involves analysis and understanding of peer-reviewed epidemiologic studies and clinical trials, extensive study of disease processes, risk factors, treatments and outcomes, and close working relationships with a network of experts in some of the nation’s most respected hospitals and universities.

Education:

• University of South Carolina School of Law, JD (1994)
• University of South Carolina, Honors College, BA, International Relations, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (1991)

Admissions:

• Kentucky
• South Carolina
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Experience:

• Frequently called upon to help formulate and execute defense strategies in mass tort litigation based on reliable scientific evidence and Daubert challenges to plaintiffs’ experts
• Member of trial teams that won defense verdicts in the first three MDL bellwether trials involving Factor Xa inhibitor anticoagulant litigation
• Member of trial teams that achieved 6 defense verdicts in a row in federal and state court hormone therapy cases
• Decades of experience in products liability litigation involving prescription pharmaceuticals, OTC medications, infectious disease as well as environmental and occupational exposures

Professional Activities:

• Kentucky Bar Association
• South Carolina Bar Association
• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association
• DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar