Biography: Life Sciences

Gary Long is chair of the firm's global product liability group and a member of the firm's executive committee. He has extensive experience in the litigation and trial of product liability, consumer protection act, RICO and other claims in state and federal courts, including individual claims and class actions. Gary has served as national coordinating counsel in various types of litigation, including tobacco, alcoholic beverage, pharmaceutical and firearms litigation.

Gary has served as lead counsel in numerous class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country, and has played a key role in coordinating the defence of these cases. He has argued successfully against class certification in many of these cases, at both the trial and appellate levels. He has also tried class actions to favourable jury verdicts.

Gary is a member of the American Bar Association, the Product Liability Advisory Council, the Defense Research Institute, The Missouri Bar and the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers. He is a fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America. He is listed in The International Who's Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers; The International Who's Who of Life Sciences Lawyers; The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers; The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America; The Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America; Who's Who in American Law; Who's Who in the Midwest; Expert Guides: Guide to the World's Leading Product Liability Lawyers; The Best Lawyers in America; The Legal 500 US; Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys; and Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers. He was also featured in The American Lawyer where SHB was selected as the 2008 Product Liability Litigation Department of the Year and in a profile of SHB in the October 2008 ABA Journal.

Gary has been a guest speaker at legal education seminars on complex litigation and litigation coordination issues. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri - Columbia School of law in 1976, where he was an editor of the Missouri Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif.

Biography: Product Liability Defence

Gary Long is chair of the firm's global product liability group and a member of the firm's executive committee. He has extensive experience in the litigation of product liability claims in state and federal courts, including individual claims and class actions.

Mr Long has served as national coordinating counsel in various types of product liability claims, including tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical and firearms litigation. Mr Long has served as national counsel in numerous class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country, and has played a key role in coordinating the defence of these cases. He has argued successfully against class certification in many of these cases, at both the trial and appellate levels. He has also successfully tried class actions to jury verdict.

Mr Long is a member of the American Bar Association, the Product Liability Advisory Council, the Defense Research Institute, the Missouri Bar, the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, and is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. He is listed in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, The International Who's Who of Life Sciences Lawyers, The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, The Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the Midwest, Expert Guides: Guide to the World's Leading Product Liability Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 US and Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers. He has been a guest speaker at legal education seminars on complex litigation and litigation coordination issues. Mr Long received his JD from the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Law, where he was an editor of the Missouri Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif.

Mr Long is admitted to practise before the state courts of Missouri, the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri, the Supreme Court of the United States and the US Court of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits.