Amy Eskin

Background

About Amy Eskin

Amy Eskin is a partner at Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP and serves as Director of the firm's Mass Tort Department. She is a trial lawyer who has been successfully representing injured individuals and consumers nationally in personal injury, medical negligence, products liability and complex pharmaceutical and medical device cases for more than thirty years. She has authored multiple articles in legal publications and has lectured extensively to lawyers, health care professionals, and law students on topics including ethics, mandatory arbitration, jury selection, discovery and all aspects of trial practice. Ms. Eskin has mentored many women law students and young lawyers by volunteering as a member of the faculty of the USF Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Clinic. She is a strong advocate for increasing diversity in appointed leadership in national mass tort and state wide coordinated proceedings and has spoken frequently at professional meetings of attorneys and the judiciary on this topic. Ms. Eskin was elected into the American Board of Trial Advocates (San Francisco Chapter) in 2004 and was the youngest female chapter member at the time of her election. ABOTA is an invitation only organization of accomplished trial lawyers who exemplify the highest standards of trial skills, integrity, honor, ethics, civility and courtesy in the legal profession. She has been appointed lead, co-lead or a member of Plaintiffs’ leadership in a wide variety of complex pharmaceutical and medical device cases in state and federal courts. Ms. Eskin currently serves a Co-Lead counsel in the California Judicial Council Coordinated Proceeding JCCP 5043, Gilead Tenofovir Cases which involves cases filed by more than individuals who have been injured as a result of taking certain prescription medications developed to treat individuals infected with HIV or those at risk for contracting HIV. She also serves as Liaison Counsel and member of the Executive Committee in MDL 3004, Paraquat Product Liability Litigation and JCCP 5031, Paraquat Cases. In 2012, Ms. Eskin was appointed as co-lead counsel of MDL 2325 In Re American Medical Systems, Inc. Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation where she directed the prosecution of thousands of individual cases filed on behalf of women who suffered devastating injuries as a result of being implanted with transvaginal mesh products. The majority of those cases resolved in 2014.