Joe Price has practiced with Faegre Baker Daniels since 1972 and is the senior trial partner in the product liability and environmental group, which was recently nationally ranked by BTI Consulting as one of the top three "powerhouse" practices for product liability. His practice focuses exclusively in the area of complex litigation, mass tort and class action products liability defense, especially litigation involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Joe is one of the pioneers in mass tort litigation, dating back to his extensive involvement in the Dalkon Shield litigation in the early 1970s. The National Law Journal recognized him as one of its 2015 "Litigation Trailblazers." Product Liability 360 named Joe as one of its 10 product liability MVPs for 2015 and one of its 10 Most Admired Product Liability Lawyers in the U.S. in 2010.

Joe's experience includes medical litigation involving intrauterine devices, mammary implants, orthopaedic prostheses, cardiovascular devices, a wide variety of prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and various chemicals. He has tried medical product liability cases in Minnesota, California, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, North Carolina and North Dakota. Recently Joe has served as a national lead trial counsel for Novartis in four Aredia and Zometa trials in Missouri, North Carolina and California (two cases). Also, he recently successfully defended Zimmer in two separate three-week hip implant trials in St. Clair County, Illinois. He was co-trial counsel for Pfizer in the only Mirapex bellwether trial litigated.

Joe has managed the defense of prominent medical products lawsuits in his role as national coordinating counsel for 3M Company in the silicone breast implant litigation where he tried a number of cases and Target Corporation in the L-tryptophan amino acid litigation. He assumed key roles in the national defense and coordination of the Ritalin litigation for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. and the regional defense and coordination of the Thimerosal vaccine litigation for Aventis Pasteur, Inc. Joe was Multi-District Litigation (MDL) liaison counsel for Guidant in its defibrillator and pacemaker litigation. He is also MDL Liaison for Pfizer in its Mirapex Parkinson's Disease drug litigation. He was on the AstraZeneca Pain Pump/Local Anesthetic litigation national defense team. He is presently on the national defense team for the National Hockey League Concussion MDL.

In addition to the above, Joe has served on trial teams for the following litigation:

• Novartis Ritalin
• Novartis Zelnorm
• Zimmer NexGen Knees
• Zimmer Durom Cup Hips
• Guidant Defibrillators
• Rhone-Poulenec Rorer Blood Factor VIII

Other major medical products litigation in which Joe has taken an active role as defense counsel includes other IUDs, oral contraceptives, PPA, Diet Drugs, SSRI psychotropics, herbal supplements and vaccines. He also served as national counsel for a major Fortune 500 Company in several toxic tort cases. Joe is also a recognized expert in the area of obesity/fast food litigation and has vast experience in trial/jury consulting and psychology. He recently published an article on Jury Bias against Japanese Corporations in DRI's For The Defense, and two articles on product liability implications of Biosimiliars.

Honors

Professional Associations

Presentations

• Liability Issues Surrounding Biosimilars
  Co-presenter, IU McKinney School of Law Annual Continuing Legal Education Program, September 2016
• Communication as a Catalyst in Complex Litigation
  Federal Bar Association, Minneapolis, September 2015
• Challenging Expert Evidence in Mass Torts and Class Action Litigation
  Co-presenter, ABA Section of Litigation Roundtable, April 2015
• State Policy Responses to Obesity
  George Mason Law School Attorneys-General Education Program, 3rd Annual Public Policy Conference: Marketing and Public Health, 2011
• Protecting the Public Health: Litigation and Obesity
  George Mason Law School Judicial Education Program, 5th Annual Symposium on Civil Justice Issues, Fairfax, Virginia, 2010
• Institute of Medicine - Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Using Litigation to Make Change
  Washington, D.C., October 2010
• Obesity & Risk Management: Safeguards for Your Business
  International Foodservice Manufacturers Association, COEX Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2010
• Obesity Litigation: What's Next?
  International Foodservice Manufacturers Association, Presidents Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, November 2009
• Judges Panel - Moderator
  American Conference Institute (ACI) Drug and Medical Device Litigation Seminar, Chicago, 2006
• Obesity Litigation
  American Conference Institute (ACI) Food Regulation and Litigation Seminar, Orlando, Florida, 2006
• Judges Panel
  Moderator, American Conference Institute (ACI) 10th Annual Drug & Medical Device Litigation Conference, New York City, 2005
• View from the Bench
  Judges Panel Moderator, American Conference Institute (ACI) 9th Annual Drug & Medical Device Litigation Conference, New York City, 2004
• Update on Obesity and Weight Loss Drug Litigation
  American Conference Institute (ACI) 8th Annual Drug & Medical Device Litigation Conference, New York, 2003
• Handling Mass Tort Litigation
  Minnesota Institute of Legal Education (MILE) Corporate Counsel Institute, Minneapolis, 2002
• Weight Loss Drugs and Miscellaneous Tort Litigation
  Weight Loss and Obesity, Marketing and Risk Education Seminar, Strategic Research Institute, Washington, D.C., 2002
• Daubert in the Real World
  American Conference Institute (ACI) 6th Annual Drug & Medical Device Litigation Conference, New York, 2001
• Mealey's Emerging Drug Litigation Conference, New Orleans, 2001
• Mealey's PPA and Ephedra Litigation Conference, San Diego, 2001
• European Biomaterials Society/Italy, 7th Colloquium on Biomaterials, Ischia Porto, Italy, 2000
• European Committee on Quality Assurance and Medical Devices in Plastic Surgery (EQUAM), 4th Consensus Conference, Herzliya, Israel, 2000
• Nutraceuticals - The Next Wave of Mass Tort Litigation?
  American Conference Institute (ACI) 4th Annual Drug & Medical Device Litigation Conference, New York, 1999
• Complex Medical Litigation and Jury Hindsight Bias
  American Psychology and Law Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 1999
• Nutritional Supplements and Herbal Remedies
  Defense Research Institute, Drug & Medical Device Litigation Seminar, San Diego, 1999
• Complex Litigation and Hindsight Jury Bias
  National Communication Association 1999 Convention, Chicago, 1999
• European Committee on Quality Assurance and Medical Devices in Plastic Surgery (EQUAM), 3rd Consensus Conference, Regensburg, Germany, 1998
• Royal Society of Medicine/Section of Plastic Surgery Meeting, London, England, 1998
• Drug Information Association Legal Liability Seminar, Philadelphia, 1997
• Perspectives for Research & Industry at Century Change
  European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) International Conference on Advanced Materials '97 Biomaterials Symposium, Strasbourg, France, 1997
• Eighth Annual Conference on Products Liability
  Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, Minneapolis, 1995
• American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, San Francisco, 1994
• Second New Jersey Symposium on Biomaterials and Medical Devices, New Jersey, 1993
• Society for Biomaterials Implant Retrieval Symposium, Illinois, 1992
• The Safe Medical Devices Act (SMDA) Product Liability & Inspections Workshop
  Health Industry Manufacturers Association, Minneapolis, 1992
• Third European East-West Conference on Materials and Processes
  Council of European Materials Research Society, France, 1992
• Association of Operating Room Nurses National Congress, Atlanta, 1991
• Drug Information Association 27th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C, 1991
• Biomedical Focus III
  ASQC, 1989
• High-Tech Biomaterials
  Council of European Materials Research Society, France, 1989
• Frost & Sullivan Biomaterials Seminar, 1988
• Drug and Medical Device Litigation
  Defense Research Institute, 1988
• Society for Biomaterials Annual National Meeting, 1986
• Products Liability - Managing the Risks
  Confederation of British Industries, London, 1986
• Medical Devices and Diagnostics
  Health Industry Manufacturers Association, Washington D.C., 1985

Published Articles

• Looking to 2017: What Could Be Ahead for Drugs, Devices, and Mass Torts
  Co-author, Defense Research Institute, January 2017
• Top 5 Drug and Device Developments of 2016
  Co-author, Law360, January 2017
• Five of the Top Drug & Device Developments in 2015
  Co-author, Law360, January 2016
• Product Liability Considerations for Biologics and Biosimilars
  Co-author, For the Defense, DRI, September 2015
• Five of the Top Drug & Device Developments in 2014
  Co-author, Law360, January 2015
• Scientific Evidence Review: Admissibility and Use of Expert Evidence in the Courtroom
  Co-author, Expert Evidence in the Eighth Circuit, Chapter VIII, 2013
• Bias in the Jury Box: Attitudes Toward Japanese Corporations
  For the Defense, February, 2013
• We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Toto: Product Liability Biologics and Biosimilars
  For the Defense, August, 2011 (Winner of Burton Award for Legal Achievement, 2012)
• Expert Evidence in the Eighth Circuit
  American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology: Scientific Evidence Review Monograph No. 8, 2008
• Litigation as a Tool in Food Advertising
  Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 2006
• A Press Primer for High-Profile Corporate Cases
  Minnesota Lawyer, 2004
• Expert Evidence in the Eighth Circuit
  American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology: Scientific Evidence Review Monograph No. 6, 2003
• Weight Loss Supplements: Weighing the Legal Risks
  Nutraceuticals World, 2003
• Hindsight Bias, Daubert, and the Silicone Breast Implant Litigation
  Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 2002
• Clearing Away the Junk: Court-Appointed Experts, Scientifically Marginal Evidence, and the Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litigation, (Winner of Burton Award for Legal Achievement 2002)
  Food and Drug Law Journal, 2001
• It Isn't Paranoia If They're Really Out to Get You: Tracking the Growing Risks of Nutraceutical Litigation
  Nutraceuticals World, 2001
• Complex Medical Litigation and Hindsight Bias: Strategies to Reduce Factfinders' Retrospective Attributions of Fault
  Psychology in the Courts: International Advances in Knowledge, 2001
• The Silicone Gel Breast Implant Controversy: The Rise of Expert Panels and the Fall of Junk Science
  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2000
• The Art of Labeling: Treading the Fuzzy Legal Line for Nutraceutical Labeling
  Nutraceuticals World, 2000
• Expert Evidence in the Eight Circuit
  American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology: Scientific Evidence Review Monograph No. 4, 1999
• Taking Aim at Junk Science, (Commentary)
  Pharmaceutical Executive, 1999
• The War Against Junk Science: The Use of Expert Panels in Complex Medical-Legal Scientific Litigation
  Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery, 1998
• Junk Science in the Courtroom: Causes, Effects and Controls, (Symposium on Medical Products Liability)
  Hamline Law Review, 1996
• Junk Science in the Courtroom: Causes and Effects
  American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1995
• The Litigation, Regulatory and Political Outlook for the Medical Device Industry
  American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1994
• Product Liability Implications of Biomaterials in the United States
  Elsevier Science Limited, Great Britain, 1994
• Explanted Breast Implants: Risk Management Considerations
  ECRI Hospital Risk Control Update, 1993
• Legal and Liability Implications of Implant Retrieval Transactions
  Society for Biomaterials - Implant Retrieval Symposium, 1992
• OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Regulations: Liability for Failure to Comply
  Minnesota Physician, 1991
• The Liabilities and Consequences of Medical Device Development
  Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Applied Biomaterials, 1987
• Survey of Casualty Insurance Developments
  Insurance Counsel Journal, 1975
• Survey of Casualty Insurance Developments
  Insurance Counsel Journal, 1974
• Watercraft and Aircraft Exclusion in Homeowners Policy
  Insurance Counsel Journal, 1974