Brydon Hugo & Parker trial attorney John Brydon successfully obtained a complete voluntary dismissal of his client, Union Carbide Corporation, following favorable pre-trial rulings severely limiting a laryngeal cancer patient's claim that his working with allegedly asbestos containing products was a cause of his disease.    The plaintiff was a lifelong inventor and entrepreneur who claimed to have used asbestos containing phenolic resin material in products that he invented, manufactured and sold in the 1940s and 1950s.    After the jury was impaneled in March 2004, Brydon Hugo & Parker's trial team obtained pre-trial rulings to completely eliminate all punitive damage claims against its client and so limited the areas in which the plaintiff could offer testimony involving Union Carbide products, that plaintiff agreed to voluntary dismiss his personal injury complaint and stipulate that no subsequent wrongful death claim could be filed against the firm's client. (Paul Lennard v. Union Carbide Corporation, San Francisco Superior Court,
Case No. CGC-03-412970, 3/04)