Lecturer
J.D., Yale Law School, 1973
M.A., Trinity College, 1969
B.A., Trinity College, 1969
Peter Grossi, who joined Arnold & Porter LLP in 1974, is a senior litigator and former chair of the firm’s Litigation Group. Since 1997, he has served as National Counsel for Wyeth (formerly American Home Products) in its diet drug litigations. He obtained the first defense verdict in a diet drug jury trial, and thereafter tried 12 more cases to successful conclusions. He was also the senior supervising attorney working with other teams in the other 40 cases tried to verdicts. Prior to his work on the diet drug cases, Grossi defended a number of other pharmaceutical companies, as well as those in other industries, in product cases.
Grossi has also had significant trial and hearing experience in a number of other practice areas such as antitrust; trademark and false advertising, patents, aviation law and Indian land claims.
He has lectured on various trial practice and product liability issues to national meetings of the Defense Research Institute, the AEI-Brookings Judicial Education Program and the ABA Section on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Prior to joining Arnold & Porter, Grossi clerked for Judge J. Joseph Smith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Peter T. Grossi
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