Brydon Hugo & Parker attorneys have been actively involved in products liability litigation in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles for nearly a decade. John Brydon, Edward Hugo and James Parker have extensive courtroom experience in handling asbestos trial-related matters. For several years Mr. Brydon and Mr. Hugo were California based trial counsel for a major insulation manufacturer. They and Mr. Parker have been local trial counsel for numerous other major corporations involved in asbestos litigation. Mr. Hugo is on a select national trial team for one of the nation's largest automotive parts manufacturers.

Having taken dozens of cases to verdict, the firm is familiar with the stable of experts used by California and national plaintiffs' firms, and also experts normally retained through court-designated medical counsel in Northern California. The firm's attorneys have either deposed or cross-examined before juries all of the key pulmonologists, pathologists, radiologists, industrial hygienists and epidemiologists put on by the West Coast asbestos plaintiffs' bar.

John Brydon, Edward Hugo and James Parker have been trial counsel in hundreds of asbestos personal injury trials, many of which have gone to verdict. They have obtained either defense verdicts or relatively small net verdicts below the lowest pre-trial demands in nearly all of the cases tried to verdict. These trials have included favorable verdicts in cases involving living mesothelioma plaintiffs, plaintiffs alleging asbestos-related lung cancer and plaintiffs claiming advanced asbestosis. The name principals have been separately retained as trial counsel by several law firms whose responsibilities include managing regional and national asbestos litigation for some of the nation's largest corporations as well as directly by Fortune 500 companies defending these claims.

The firm is well versed in the needs of asbestos defendants to defend cases in proportion to realistic liability exposures. The firm's experience includes the defense of unimpaired (medical monitoring), minimally impaired, terminally ill and wrongful death claims and the unique liability and damage issues involved in such disparate cases. The firm has the ability to economically work-up and defend all types of asbestos claims in a manner consistent with the client's realistic potential exposures.