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Carrie Edinger Kehner
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA

Phone: +1 215 979 1168
Fax: +1 215 689 4923
Email: cekehner@duanemorris.com

Carrie Edinger Kehner practices in the area of commercial litigation, products liability and toxic torts. Specifically, Ms. Kehner has defended pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, manufacturers of products containing benzene, and general products manufacturers in products liability litigation. Ms. Kehner currently represents clients in pharmaceuticals pricing litigation. Ms. Kehner has also been active in asbestos defense, representing a major U.S. company in hundreds of asbestos personal injury cases throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Ms. Kehner has vast experience in all aspects of pre-trial discovery in both state and federal courts, including conducting depositions of party, fact and expert witnesses, drafting dispositive and non-dispositive motions, and arguing motions before the court. Ms. Kehner also has experience in preparing cases for trial including selecting juries and preparing pre-trial motions. In addition, Ms. Kehner has experience in multiple matters involving procurement law and constitutional issues regarding anti-discrimination policies and goals.

Admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia, Ms. Kehner is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and American Bar Association. She is a 2002 graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she was an associate editor of the International and Comparative Law Journal, and a graduate of Purdue University.

Areas of Practice

• Commercial Litigation
• Products Liability Litigation
• Toxic Torts Litigation

Representative Matters

• Represents manufacturers of medical implant devices in numerous product liability cases nationwide.
• Represent global medical device manufacturer in over 40 consolidated matters in West Virginia. Claims made by the plaintiffs range from improper off-label use of biologics products, illegal kickbacks, fraud and general medical device product liability.
• Defending major pharmaceutical manufacturers in failure to warn personal injury litigation in state and federal courts, in both individual and consolidated proceedings.
• Defending a major pharmaceutical manufacturer and its subsidiaries in drug pricing litigation.
• Defending a former manufacturer of asbestos products in state and federal MDL proceedings.
• Assisted with developing anti-discrimination policy for state authority's significant public facility construction project.

Professional Activities

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• West Virginia
• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Supreme Court of New Jersey
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Education

• Temple University Beasley School of Law, J.D., 2002
• Purdue University, B.S., 1997

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  Associate, 2002-present

Board Memberships

• Supporting Kidds - Member, Board of Directors, 2010-present

Honors and Awards

• Philadelphia Courts First Judicial District's 2009 Pro Bono Roll of Honor
• Philadelphia Courts First Judicial District's 2006 Pro Bono Roll of Honor

Selected Publications

• "Federal Preemption Impacts Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Litigation," Duane Morris Aler, June 2006
• "Pharmaceutical Advertising and the Learned Intermediary Defense," The Legal Intelligencer, October 17, 2005
• Co-author, "The False Claims Act: The Courts Move Toward a Rule of Reason," The Journal of Medical Practice Management, May/June 2005
• "Another Circuit Bars Tort Suits Under the MDA," Duane Morris Alert, 2004
• Co-author, "The False Claims Act and the Recent Trend Toward Kinder, Gentler Interpretations: Standards for Health Care Fraud Prosecution Continue to Evolve," Journal of Health Care Compliance, November-December 2003
• "Recent United States Interpretations of Article 13 (b) of the Hague International Child Abduction Convention: We're On the Right Road," Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, Fall 2001

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, "Large Law Firm Practice," Widener University School of Law - Professionalism Day, October 29, 2009
• Panelist, "Large Law Firm Practice," Widener University School of Law - Professionalism Day, September 16, 2008
• Panelist, "Unconventional Wisdom on Products Liability Defense," Insurance Society of Philadelphia CLE Seminar, August 11, 2006