Suzanne Galvin

Suzanne is a versatile litigator who has spent her career finding solutions for clients facing difficult and protracted legal battles in a variety of industries and jurisdictions. She has particular experience in matters involving healthcare providers, manufacturers of medical products and pharmaceuticals, and environmental litigation.

Suzanne helps major companies manage and resolve large portfolios of claims, carefully examining the risks associated with each case while developing a broad approach to the collective resolution of all claims.

Suzanne has extensive experience in pharmaceutical litigation. Early in her career she was part of the national trial team that represented the makers of a biologic medicine designed to treat hemophilia through which thousands of hemophilia patients contracted HIV. Suzanne assisted in crafting a litigation strategy that led to its successful resolution. She has also served on the national trial team for pharmaceutical cases involving a diabetes medication that was alleged to have caused bladder cancer, and worked on a team representing a manufacturer of hip implants. Suzanne is currently on the national trial team for transvaginal mesh implant cases remanded from an MDL and is also representing a pharmacy in opioids litigation.

Suzanne has been involved in the personal injury aspects of numerous mass torts, particularly groundwater contamination cases. In one case, Suzanne led the deposition of the class representative. The case was dismissed immediately thereafter.

As the former Counsel and Risk Manager for one of the Midwest's largest teaching hospitals, where she was responsible for litigation and risk management, Suzanne has deep experience in the health care industry and uses her network to serve clients. For example, after a catastrophic trucking accident, two law firms told a client no expert could be found, but Suzanne, part of a team hired just before trial, was able to retain a local expert. The case settled on the courthouse steps for a favorable amount.

With her husband, John Galvin, Suzanne has served for two decades as a chaplain certified in disaster response counseling. Suzanne and John have traveled around the U.S. and the world providing counseling to people affected by natural disasters, terrorism and political unrest, including Yazidi women and children who were former captives of ISIS. The couple also founded a nonprofit, New Commandment Ministries, that helps at-risk children in the U.S. and Nairobi, Ukraine, and Haiti with projects that provide education, medical care, vocational training, and fresh water.