Joseph Joseph

In the 1990s, he conceived the legal argument for holding makers of generic pharmaceuticals immune from failure-to-warn suits on a preemption theory ultimately recognized by the Supreme Court in the landmark PLIVA Inc. v. Mensing litigation, in which Joe represented PLIVA. His tireless advocacy on that issue transformed the landscape of litigation against the pharmaceutical industry, The American Lawyers aid in the course of naming Joe its Appellate Litigator of the Week, and is characteristic of his pioneering work for pharmaceutical interests.