Practice Focus

Anand Agneshwar is a litigation partner in the New York office. He heads the pharma subgroup of the firm's product liability practice group.

Mr. Agneshwar represents numerous pharmaceutical, consumer product, and other companies in all aspects of litigation, through and including trial. He counsels clients on litigation risks, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory issues, and the litigation and compliance impact of potential legislation. His experience includes nearly a dozen bench and jury trials, numerous Daubert and Daubert-style hearings, and hundreds of significant arguments in state and federal courts across the country. He represents major pharmaceutical companies as national counsel and trial counsel. Mr. Agneshwar also maintains an active pro bono practice.

Mr. Agneshwar graduated from New York University School of Law, magna cum laude, in 1992, where he was Order of the Coif, Developments Editor of the NYU Law Review, and published a note entitled "Rediscovering God In The Constitution." Following law school, he clerked for the late Honorable Harold A. Ackerman, US District Judge for the District of New Jersey, and Morton I. Greenberg, US Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Representative Matters

• Led or participated in jury trials on behalf of major pharmaceutical company in Mississippi, New Jersey, and Massachusetts state and federal courts.
• Represented major pharmaceutical company in procuring one of the, if not the, first Daubert-type hearing and compelled court-ordered independent medical examination in Mississippi state court.
• Represented major pharmaceutical company as lead trial lawyer in eight bench trials relating to medical eligibility to sue in New Jersey state court. Procured dismissals or nominal settlements of thousands of plaintiffs.
• Lead counsel to California Medical Association, San Francisco Medical Society and other medical organizations in successful amicus support of Oregon statute relating to end-of-life care in Oregon district court, Ninth Circuit, and Supreme Court.
• Lead counsel in challenge to public school censorship of student-initiated religious speech in Nevada district court and Ninth Circuit.
• Represented prominent legal philosophers John Rawls,  Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, and Robert Nozick in amicus brief on end-of-life care issues in Supreme Court .