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    Teresa Curtin
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Phi Beta Kappa. Root-Tilden Snow Scholar. Editor, Immigration Reform Act Colloquium, 1987-1988 and Member, Editorial Staff, 1986-1987, New York University Review of Law and Social Change. Law Clerk to the Hon. Stewart G. Pollock, Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Teresa Curtin works primarily on a wide variety of MDL litigations including the current Vioxx and Ortho Evra birth-control patch litigations, and is also involved in all stages of litigation in various environmental toxic tort matters. Her legal experience includes both trial and appellate level work on a wide variety of cases including defective pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices, and manufacturing equipment. She also has extensive medical malpractice experience, including litigating birth injury cases. She has also written appeals and amicus briefs on a wide variety of issues, including to the United States Supreme Court.

Most recently, Ms. Curtin was published in the Hofstra Law Review Summer 2007: "Preamble Preemption and the Challenged Role of Failure to Warn and Defective Design Pharmaceutical Cases in Revealing Scientific Fraud, Marketing Mischief, and Conflicts of Interest" by Teresa Curtin & Ellen Relkin 35 Hofstra L. Rev. 1773.

Teresa is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). She has taken on many issues related to the Deaf community. These include acting as co-counsel in a class-action lawsuit involving Deaf inmates’ access to Americans With Disabilities Act accommodations while in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, and being involved in civil rights litigation related to a Deaf individual killed by police officers. She acts as a consultant to various Deaf advocacy groups and is a regular court-appointed as a guardian ad litem. Ms. Curtin is very interested in issues related to closed-captioning of news media and commercial websites on the Internet.

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