Clinton B. Fisher
Email: cfisher@hanlyconroy.com
Phone: (212) 784-6446


Born Niagara Falls, New York, August 16, 1956. Admitted to bar: 1984, New York; 1986, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2003, District of Columbia. Education: University of California at Santa Cruz (B.A., with honors, 1978); Harvard University (J.D., 1983). Member: Mediation Panel, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Tort Litigation, 1995-1996); Federal Bar Council; American Association for Justice.

Mr. Fisher's practice focuses on mass torts, personal injury, products liability, and commercial litigation in a wide range of contexts. He is especially expert in the management, discovery and prosecution of document-intensive, complex litigation involving scientific, economic and regulatory issues. He has been and is currently involved in a number of nation - and state-wide pharmaceutical mass torts - including, most recently, as a court-appointed member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the Chantix Multi-District Litigation as of January 2010 -- but he also represents individual plaintiffs in serious personal injury cases. He has appeared and tried cases in numerous federal and state courts throughout the United States. He also has significant experience in alternative dispute resolution, including arbitrations on behalf of policyholders seeking insurance coverage and mediations in bankruptcy-related disputes. Mr. Fisher has been an invited speaker on mass tort issues at national litigation conferences, including Mealey's "Pharmaceutical Litigation SuperConference."

Representative Cases

•	In Re Chantix Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2092 (N.D. Al.) (member, Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee)
•	In re Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1909 (N.D. Oh.)
•	In re Zelnorm Litigation, Case No. 280, (Sup. Ct. NJ Law Division: Bergen Cty)(Co-lead Plaintiffs’ Counsel in centralized complex litigation)
•	In re Bextra and Celebrex Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1699 (N.D. Cal.) and New York State Coordinated Proceedings (member, Discovery Oversight Committee)
•	Representation of a severely injured accident victim in a trial against the U.S. Government (reported at 483 F.Supp2d 267 (E.D.N.Y. 2007))
•	Representation of a class of over 20,000 tort claimants seeking to obtain coverage from their defunct employer’s primary insurance carrier (Continental Casualty Company v. Employers Insurance Company of Wasau, Index No. 601037/03 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. May 8, 2007); (N.Y App. Div., 1st Dept., December 30, 2008))
•	Representation of an Asbestos Claims Trust seeking tens of millions of dollars of insurance in a successful four-week CPR Institute arbitration before a retired federal judge
•	Successful defense of a public company and a special committee of the company's board of directors in a stockholders derivative action challenging the sale of the company to an entity formed by the company's management (see Publications, below)
•	Representation of one of two directors of a closely held Delaware oil and transportation corporation worth hundreds of millions of dollars in an action alleging breach of contract and fiduciary duties (Appeal reported at 678 A.2d 256)
•	Representation of a New York securities firm against a South American trading firm and its CEO seeking damages for indemnification and unjust enrichment (Decision reported at 1998 WL 213218; Appeal reported at 183 F.3d 151)

In addition, for many years, Mr. Fisher and his colleagues acted as national coordinating counsel for several defendants in the U.S. asbestos personal injury and property damage litigation. In this capacity, Mr. Fisher developed and implemented nationwide litigation strategy, oversaw counsel in jurisdictions throughout the U.S., and coordinated and participated in numerous trials, appeals and court proceedings. (Some of the decisions in which he was involved are reported at 624 So.2d 732 and 642 So.2d 851, 53 Cal Rptr. 2d 642, 663 A.2d 1358, and 673 A.2d 398 and 678 A.2d 363.)

Publications

"Change of Corporate Control - Balancing the Obligations to Shareholders with Obligations to Employees, Customers, the Surrounding Community and Other Constituencies," The Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly (July 1999).

Mr. Fisher resides in New York City and Connecticut.