TIMOTHY E. KAPSHANDY is a partner in the Chicago office with experience in product liability, civil rights and complex litigation, particularly mass toxic tort litigation. He has worked on and tried toxic tort cases in jurisdictions such as Indiana, Florida, Alaska and Canada. His litigation practice for the past 20 years has focused on the defense of claims such as fear of cancer, increased risk of cancer, immune dysfunction and neuropsychological damage as a result of exposure to various chemicals. Mr. Kapshandy has devoted substantial time to combating "junk science" techniques and has helped lead the firm's coordination of asbestos and formaldehyde defense work. He served as American liaison counsel for a major corporation in a trial in Canada involving more than 2,000 plaintiffs claiming neurological, immunological, carcinogenic and pulmonary injuries from alleged exposure to formaldehyde from an insulation product. He helped achieve a defense verdict for a major oil refinery in an Indiana class action brought by 500 residents living near the refinery.
Mr. Kapshandy is the author of a number of publications on product liability law and scientific evidence including Chapter 7, "Trial of Scientific Evidence Cases" in Scientific Evidence and Experts Handbook , Aspen Pub. (1999). Mr. Kapshandy speaks Spanish and French. He has served as an arbitrator in Cook County Circuit Court's arbitration program.