About me
Anne Marie Ellis is the California Chair of Buchalter’s Products Liability practice group and Chair of the Chemical Law & Prop. 65 industry group. Her practice focuses on product liability defense, general liability, personal injury litigation, commercial litigation, premises liability, regulatory compliance, and client counseling. She has helped clients including manufacturers, retailers, distributors, importers, and franchisors across a variety of industries including motor vehicles, motorcycles, food and cosmetics, jewelry, clothing, off-road vehicles, sporting goods, power tools, exercise equipment, large scale wildland fires, restaurants, trash and recycling haulers and amusement park venues. Understanding that litigation is not the only problem plaguing companies,
Ms. Ellis also provides advice and counsel to clients dealing with complex regulatory schemes such as the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Consumer Product Safety Commission and California’s Proposition 65. With extensive experience in complex litigation, Ms. Ellis has effectively defended cases of all sizes in state and federal courts across the country, including catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death/survival lawsuits and class actions, and has played a key role in all phases of litigation and trial. She is also well versed on a wide-range of discovery issues and procedures including handling of e-discovery and trade secrets.
