FOCUS
Kevin Clancy has several years of experience defending manufacturers in products liability actions, including defective design, failure to warn and consumer fraud claims. He successfully represented a major manufacturer of OTC nasal spray in defense of inadequate warning claims, obtained summary judgment from the U.S. District Court and successfully had that opinion affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals. He is also currently defending the same manufacturer in putative nationwide class action in federal court relating to the same OTC product line, alleging defective design and warnings. He has successfully defended manufacturers of farm equipment and industrial lift trucks in defective design and failure to warn claims. His consumer fraud experience includes preparing an amicus curiae brief to the Illinois Supreme Court challenging the applicability of the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act to putative nationwide class action cases. Consistent with that brief, the Court then issued an opinion significantly restricting the use of that Act in such cases.
EDUCATION
Mr. Clancy graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1993. He also graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois with a B.A. in Economics in 1990. After graduating from law school, Mr. Clancy served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harlington Wood, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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