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FN:Sharon L. Caffrey
TEL;WORK:+1 215 979 1180
TEL;TYPE=WORK,FAX:+1 215 689 1932
EMAIL;WORK;PREF:SLCaffrey@duanemorris.com
N:Caffrey, Sharon L.
TITLE:Partner
ORG:Duane Morris LLP
ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP | 30 South 17th Street | Philadelphia, PA  19103-4196 | USA | 
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NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Sharon L. Caffrey is co-head of the Products Liability and Toxic Torts division of Duane Morris' Trial Practice Group. Ms. Caffrey concentrates her practice in the areas of mass tort, products liability and toxic tort litigation.  Ms. Caffrey has served as the national coordinating counsel for Pliva, Inc. in its PPA litigation. She is also one of two science defense coordinators and one of a handful of national trial counsel for Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation in their asbestos litigation and is regularly assigned to handle their asbestos trials around the country.  Ms. Caffrey has significant trial experience, including extensive experience as MDL counsel in both asbestos and PPA litigation.     

Ms. Caffrey's extensive trial experience also includes trying dozens of cases to verdict. One-third of her verdicts have been in medical malpractice cases involving a wide range of issues. The remaining trials have included a variety of mass tort cases and other health effects defense cases.  

Ms. Caffrey has chaired the Mealey's conference on "Email, Discovery and Retention Policies," is a frequent speaker on the topic of eDiscovery issues and is a member of the firm's eDiscovery Initiative.

Ms. Caffrey is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She has spoken at the Mealey's Asbestos Litigation Seminar and the American Conference Institute Asbestos Litigation Seminar. Ms. Caffrey is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and  is vice chair of the Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee of the American Bar Association. She is co-chair of the Women's Rights Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association and also is a member of the association's Committee on Women in the Profession and Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention as well as the board of the Public Interest Section. She also is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Ms. Caffrey also chairs Duane Morris' Women's Initiative and co-chaired the first Lexis-Nexis conference on Advancing Women in the Profession.  In addition, Ms. Caffrey is a member of Duane Morris' Diversity Committee.      

A former judicial clerk to the Honorable Dominick J. Ferrelli, JSC and the Honorable Anthony P. Tunney, JSC of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Ms. Caffrey is a 1987 graduate of Widener University School of Law and a graduate of American University.

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