Charles H. Moellenberg Jr. (Chuck)
Partner
Pittsburgh
Tel: 1.412.394.7917
Fax: 1.412.394.7959
Email:
chmoellenberg@jonesday.com
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Chuck Moellenberg has extensive experience in the nationwide coordination of major product liability cases, commercial and insurance coverage disputes, and a variety of general business litigation. Chuck's product liability experience encompasses products ranging from paints and chemicals, toys, trains, automobile air bags and restraint systems, and consumer electrical appliances. He is adept at using computer litigation support technology. He appears in state and federal courts throughout the U.S. and coordinates the defense for clients with other co-defendants in joint defense groups.
From years of coordinating nationwide litigation Chuck has considerable knowledge in complex, emerging legal issues. These include market share and other collective liability theories, concert of action and conspiracy laws, public and private nuisance, medical monitoring, continuing duty to warn, class actions, preemption, and liability for trade association activities. He works extensively with legal scholars and a wide range of experts such as pediatricians, child psychologists, epidemiologists, statisticians, toxicologists, industrial hygienists, warnings, historians, and economists. In highly visible product liability litigation, he works with crisis management firms to speak with the media and formulate media strategy.
Chuck is a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council and the Allegheny County Bar Association. He is coauthor of the "Multi-District Litigation" chapter of Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (West Pub., 1998). He has written and spoken on defending claims alleging failure to warn, public nuisance, obesity, and state attorney general litigation and has written on re-analyzing raw data to attack epidemiology studies.
Chuck is an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School teaching a course on advanced trial evidence.
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Ohio and Pennsylvania
Education
Denison University (Phi Beta Kappa; B.A. with highest honors 1974); Princeton University (M.P.A. 1977); Columbia University (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Law Review; J.D. 1978)
Clerkship
Law Clerk to: Chief Judge Frank J. Battisti, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio (1978 term) and Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit (1979 term)