Albert L. Piccerilli

Albert L. Piccerilli is a member of the Litigation Department at Montgomery McCracken. He has represented large publicly- held domestic and multi-national corporations and insurance companies, as well as individuals, institutions and closely-held businesses, in a variety of sensitive matters through alternative dispute resolution, trials and appeals. His experience includes products liability and toxic tort litigation and preventive counseling, commercial and business litigation, insurance counseling and coverage litigation, bad faith, casualty, professional liability and employment litigation, and higher education matters, including Title IX sexual misconduct claims. He has represented foreign corporations in the United States and he is experienced in the workings of The Hague Service and Evidence Conventions and foreign laws impacting litigation in the United States.

Al’s products liability and toxic tort practice runs the gamut. He has litigated contamination, design and manufacturing defect cases and failure-to-warn cases in personal injury matters and in commercial contexts. He has represented manufacturers, distributors and patent licensors. He has represented clients as national, regional and local counsel and in mass torts, multi-district litigation and class actions, as well as in individual cases. He has litigated issues pertaining to the admissibility of expert testimony under Daubert and Frye standards. He has counseled clients on liability prevention, product recalls and E-discovery. In personal injury matters, he has defended cases involving allergic and idiosyncratic reactions, burns, brain, cardio-pulmonary, dermatological, gastro-intestinal, hematological, metabolic, neurological, obstetric-gynecological, ophthalmic, orthopedic, psychiatric and systemic injuries, cancers and conditions, and HIV, hepatitis, salmonella and other infections.

Al’s products liability practice has concentrated heavily in the defense of prescription pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including anesthetic agents, anti-infectives, blood products, catheters, diagnostics, DES, diet drugs, metoclopramide, optical solutions, psychotropic drugs, vaccines, various other drugs used in treatment of specific medical conditions, hospital and intravenous solutions and equipment, intrauterine devices, latex gloves, and cardiac pacing devices. In addition, he has defended clients in cases involving workplace, environmental and residential exposures to asbestos, silica, formaldehyde, lead, paint, various chemicals and solvents, products in transportation and toxins at dumpsites. He has defended clients in cases involving various types of industrial equipment, such as punch presses and extrusion machines, and consumer products, such as cosmetics, children’s products, dietary supplements and nutritional products, and over-the-counter medications. In the commercial products context, he has litigated business disputes involving industrial equipment and construction materials.

In other areas of his practice, Al has litigated temporary restraining orders and injunctions, business torts, contract disputes, covenants not to compete, shareholder fiduciary obligations, professional liability, personal injury and property damage claims, and Title IX and other higher education matters. He has represented clients in a variety of insurance-related disputes involving bad faith and coverage under accident, occurrence and claims-made policies for advertising injury, products-related injury, environmental contamination, casualty and professional liability. In employment litigation, he has handled matters involving race, gender, age and disability discrimination.

Al has been admitted to litigate cases pro hac vice in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Ohio and West Virginia.

Al graduated undergrad from Villanova University with cum laude honors. Al received his law degree from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law and law clerked for The Honorable Robert H. Steedle, Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey and The Honorable Francis L. Van Dusen, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.