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William H. Hardie, Jr.

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William H. Hardie, Jr.

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whh@johnstoneadams.com

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Admitted In:

  • 1963, Virginia State Bar
  • 1964, New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • 1966, Alabama State Bar
  • 1967, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
  • 1970, U.S. Supreme Court
  • 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

Education:

  • Yale University, B.E. (mechanical engineering) 1959
  • University of Virginia School of Law, LL.B. 1963

 

Additional Information:

Affiliations

  • Co-Chair, ABA Products Liability Litigation Sub-Committee on Warnings.
  • Member and former Faculty Member, ABA National Institute on Failure to Warn Litigation, Washington, D.C., September 1996.
  • Faculty Member, First European Convention in Consumer Safety, Barcelona, Spain, April 1997.
  • Moderator, Panel Discussion on Expert Witnesses, Annual Meeting of Litigation Section, ABA, New York, New York, May 1998.
  • Faculty Member, Post-Award arbitration procedures, Alabama Bar Institute-Continuing Legal Education, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, February 1999.
  • Member, Commercial Arbitrations Panel of American Arbritation Association.


Publications

  • "A Critical Analysis of On-Product Warning Theory," 22 Product Safety & Liability Reporter (BNA) 143 (February 11, 1994); reprinted, Products Liability in New York: Strategy and Practice, N.Y. State Bar Ass?n (Neil A. Goldberg, ed. 1997).
  • "Liability Based on Testing Product Warning Labels," For the Defense 27 (October 1997).
  • "Warning of Open and Obvious Hazards," 9 Australian Product Liability Reporter 35 (March 1998).
  • "Consumer Product Safety Labeling and the Influence of Litigation," 5 International Journal for Consumer Safety 57 (June 1998).
  • "Arbritation: Post Award Procedures," 60 Alabama Lawyers 315 (Sept 1999).


Representative Cases

  • Defense of numerous consumer class actions involving residential real estate escrow charges, insurance sales practices, residential real estate mortgage discounts, banking industry checking account practices, credit life insurance.
  • Prosecution of anti-trust claims related to Workers' Compensation assigned risk resulting in favorable settlement.
  • Defense of alleged misappropriation of technology-related trade secret.
  • Defense of ERISA claims for recovery of overpayment of benefits.
  • Frequent service as arbitrator for commercial and technology-related disputes as member of American Arbitration Association and National Arbitration Forum Panels of Arbitrators.