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Ms. Goldhirsch currently handles the day-to-day management of the firm’s 3T Heater Cooler Unit and Xarelto litigations.  She has been a member of multiple trial teams in pharmaceutical bellwether cases that were tried to verdict in state and federal courts.  Ms. Goldhirsch has further prepared successful petitions to centralize mass tort litigations. She also briefed successful dispositive and evidentiary motions and oppositions addressing a variety of topics including, jurisdiction, removal and remand, forum non-convenies, complex expert and regulatory matters, drug labeling, and federal preemption.

Before joining Chaffin Luhana, Ms. Goldhirsch was an associate at another prominent national plaintiffs firm, where she represented thousands of injured individuals in pharmaceutical and medical device cases.  In 2014, Ms. Goldhirsch was a member of the Actos Multidistrict Litigation trial team that secured a multi-billion dollar verdict. She was also involved in briefing a successful motion in limine opposition that resulted in the admission of evidence of a hip implant recall in the DePuy ASR California state court bellwether trial. Ms. Goldhirsch also prepared presentations and appeared at hearings and Case Management Conferences on behalf of the DePuy PSC. The DePuy ASR litigation and ultimately resolved with a large global settlement prior to any trials.