Experience
Monica Wells focuses her practice on defending personal injury claims. Her litigation practice deals primarily with defending companies in toxic tort and product liability claims. She represents a variety of suppliers and product manufacturers in asbestos litigation, including manufacturers of joint compound, valves, pumps, floor tile and furnaces.
Monica has experience in all aspects of litigation, including discovery, depositions, discovery motions, experts, dispositive motions, settlement negotiations and trial. She has taken and defended more than 75 depositions. In September 2008, Monica second-chaired a four-week asbestos trial involving exposure to joint compound. The jury returned a unanimous verdict for the client - a joint compound manufacturer.
After graduating from the University of Oregon, Monica worked at Keating Jones Hughes PC for four years defending physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers in medical malpractice claims.
In addition to her litigation practice, Monica advises new and emerging Oregon businesses through participating in the Lewis & Clark Law School's Small Business Legal Clinic Pro Bono Project. This project provides business transactional legal advice primarily to businesses owned by women, minorities and recent immigrants.
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