Mr. King’s practice has concentrated in complex commercial litigation and arbitration in a variety of areas, including business disputes, admiralty, transportation, product liability, toxic tort, and environmental matters. His clients include financial institutions, transportation companies, and manufacturers. He represents commercial interests in various disputes, including deal, shareholder, loan, privacy, and contract litigation. His maritime and transportation experience has involved representing clients in personal injury and death defense, cargo damage, equipment damage, charter dispute, insurance, collision, allision, pollution, and USCG regulatory matters, as well as rail service disruption claims and air and motor carrier cargo damage claims. His environmental experience includes representing companies in regulatory and private cost recovery matters under state and federal laws. His product liability experience has included defense of personal injury/wrongful death claims involving various products, including automobiles, industrial machinery and equipment, medical devices, and consumer products, and he has regularly counseled automobile and other manufacturers on product liability, warranty, consumer fraud, and recall matters. He has acted as national counsel for an automobile manufacturer regarding its product liability and product-related regulatory compliance matters. His toxic tort experience has involved the representation of defendants in asbestos, silica, and lead pigment matters. He has been on national coordinating counsel and trial teams defending manufacturers against asbestos exposure claims, and trying cases nationwide. Mr. King has tried cases in various state and federal courts including in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Missouri, and South Carolina, and has prepared appeals to the United States Supreme Court, Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Appeals Court of Massachusetts, and the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
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- PFAS Litigation: Who's Next? - (Posted On Thursday, April 13, 2023)
- U.S. Coast Guard Signals Intent to Initiate Rulemaking to Implement Ship Efficiency and Carbon Intensity Regulations Under MARPOL Annex VI - (Posted On Monday, February 21, 2022)
- U.S. Poised to Urge the International Maritime Organization to Dramatically Accelerate Decarbonization of Shipping - (Posted On Friday, April 30, 2021)
- U.S. Coast Guard Signals Intent to Require Safety Management Systems - (Posted On Monday, October 12, 2020)
- COVID-19: Vessel Entry into U.S. Ports in the Age of a Pandemic - (Posted On Wednesday, April 29, 2020)
- COVID-19: Force Majeure Checklist for the GC’s Office - (Posted On Tuesday, April 21, 2020)
- California Continues its Role as a Privacy Vanguard: California Privacy Act of 2018 - (Posted On Friday, August 03, 2018)