Areas of Concentration
Robb Patryk - Co-Chair of Hughes Hubbard's Product Liability & Toxic Tort Group and a member of the firm's governing Executive Committee - focuses on complex litigation related to claims of fraud or nondisclosure, usually involving the sale of consumer and industrial products or securities. He has 20 years experience in the national and international defense coordination of numerous mass torts involving prescription drugs, medical devices, asbestos, dietary supplements, machinery, blood products, specialty chemicals, motor vehicles, and petroleum products. He has successfully defended several consumer fraud class actions in some of the nation's most difficult jurisdictions. He has also litigated securities and other commecial claims on behalf of the world's premier banks, accounting firms, and mutual funds, among others. In addition, Mr. Patryk is active in providing pro bono legal services, especially to the music community, representing emerging composers and singer/songwriters in connection with contractual and other matters. His recent matters include the defense of Merck & Co., Inc. in Vioxx and Vytorin litigation and the representation of a prominent French bank in connection with fraud and other claims against monoline insurers.
Honors & Recognitions
- Selected for the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Product Liability Litigation.
- Recommended in the 2010 edition of The Legal 500 in the area of Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices.
- Ranked by Euromoney’s Guide as one of The World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers (2009-2010).
- Recommended as a leading practitioner for Life Sciences by PLC Cross-border Life Sciences Handbook 2009 and 2010.
- Identified in the 2006 and 2007 issues of Super Lawyers magazine in the areas of Class Action/Mass Tort, Personal Injury Defense: Products and Securities Litigation.
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Fourth Circuits
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York and the Western District of Michigan
Professional Activities
- Numerous speaking engagements related to product liability and securities issues.
- Co-author with Theodore Mayer of the treatise Product Liability (Law Journal Seminars Press 1998)
- Class Agent, Yale Alumni Fund