Printable FormatJessica Saunders Eichel
Associate
Ms. Eichel is an associate of the firm. She practices with the Medical and Life Sciences Industry Team as well as the Mass Torts and Industry Wide Litigation and Insurance Litigation and Product Liability Defense Practice Groups. Her practice is primarily focused on litigation involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Ms. Eichel defends clients in mass tort, class-action, and products liability litigation, including state-coordinated and federal multi-district litigation throughout the country. Ms. Eichel also assists in the representation of an equipment leasing company in actions for products liability, negligence and wrongful death claims involving accidents at construction sites.
Professional & Community Activities
Ms. Eichel is an active member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), for which she serves on the steering committee of the Young Lawyers Committee as co-chair of The Whisper, The Young Lawyers Committee newsletter. She authors a column for DRI’s Daubert Online publication related to Daubert issues in the Second Circuit. Ms. Eichel is also involved with the New York State Bar Association and the National Association of Insurance Women (NAIW), an organization for women in insurance. While attending law school, Ms. Eichel served as an Articles and Notes Editor for the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review. She is also a member of the Cornell Alumni Association and the Cornell Daily Sun’s Alumni Association, for which she authored a bi-weekly column from 2002 through 2003.
Articles authored by Ms. Eichel include:
- “Weighing the Impact of Statistically Insignificant Information Against a Shareholder’s ‘Right to Know’ in Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., et al. v. Siracusano, et al.,” DRI The Voice, November, 2011.
- “Experts Cannot Serve as “Superlawyers” Advocating Conclusions that Plaintiff Wants the Jury to Reach”, DRI Daubert Online, October 2011.
- “Second Circuit Report: Opinion from Expert Without Relevant Experience and Qualifications is Rejected,” DRI Daubert Online, June 2011.
- “Second Circuit Report: Patron Burned by Hot Tea Could Not State Claim Against Starbucks,” DRI Daubert Online, April 2011.
- “Second Circuit Report: Failure to Rule Out Alternative Causes Renders Differential Diagnosis Inadmissible,” DRI Daubert Online, November 2010.
- “Purchasing Company Assets Without Taking On Libilities,” New York Law Journal, September 9, 2010 (co-authored with Judi Abbott Curry).
- “He’s My Child Too,” DRI Diversity Newsletter, December 2009 (co-authored with Pamela B. Goldsmith).
- “Amendments to Federal Rules Affecting Timing Took Effect on December 1, 2009,” Harris Beach Legal Alert, January 2010.
