CHICAGO, IL—Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright announced today that nationally recognized litigators Joshua Lee and Edward Casmere have joined its Chicago office as partners. They will serve as the Chicago office’s Co-Heads of Litigation and Disputes, focusing on product liability and consumer disputes as well as environmental and mass tort litigation.
Lee and Casmere join from Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila, a Chicago-based litigation firm they helped form. They advise clients on high-stakes bet-the-company issues, working to set strategy, manage regulatory affairs and negotiate complex deals. With decades of product liability and mass tort experience, they have defended clients across a range of subject matters including pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering and chemical exposure.
The duo have practiced together for more than 20 years, litigating a diverse array of complex disputes including environmental affairs, intellectual property, collective bargaining, consumer fraud/class action, constitutional law/First Amendment, employment and labor, cryptocurrency, catastrophic injury and wrongful death, toxic tort and a variety of other general commercial claims.
