Jim is the Leader of the firm’s Product Liability Practice Team. His practice focuses on counseling companies on the risk of liability, particularly product liability, and on general business matters, including business contracts. He also handles governmental regulatory compliance and recalls.
Mr. Ughetta has extensive trial experience representing companies in high exposure cases on a local and national level. His clients have ranged from Fortune 500 companies to newly created and well-established privately held companies. A representative sampling of products defended in litigation include helmets, motorcycles, ski equipment, seat belts, tires, fitness equipment, UTVs, agricultural equipment, outdoor power equipment, consumer and commercial products, industrial equipment, medical devices and electrical cords/cables. He has tried cases throughout the United States and has appeared pro hac vice in litigation pending in most states including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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James Ughetta is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
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Publications
•“Responding to and Propounding Written Discovery” DRI (July 2015)
•“Uniform Discovery Responses and Protective Orders,” For The Defense, DRI (November 2013)
•“Product Liability Prevention and Concerns,” Center for International Legal Studies (October, 2008)
•Chapter, “Motions in Limine to Preclude Expert Testimony” in book entitled Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, New York State Bar Association (2004)
•“Demonstrative Evidence in Product Liability Cases,” The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (March 2001)
•“Deposing Plaintiff’s Expert,” For The Defense, DRI (July 1999)
•“Admissibility of Evidence of Other Accidents,” For The Defense, DRI (October 1995)
Presentations
•“Tire Product Liability Prevention”, Macon, GA (2016 and 2022)
•“How to Avoid Traps During the Deposition of a Corporate Witness”, Tokyo, Japan (October 2016)
•“Speaker, Marsh Tire Product Liability Risk Management Seminar”, Qingdao, China (May 2015)
•“Discovery, Trials and Appeals in Product Liability Cases,” Tokyo, Japan (September 2002)
•“Defending Product Liability Trials in the United States,” South Korea (September 2002)
•“Demonstrative Evidence in Product Liability Cases,” speaker, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (March 2001)
Recent Win Littleton Park Joyce Ughetta & Kelly LLP Wins For Sport Equipment Manufacturer
Firm News JAMES UGHETTA RECOGNIZED IN WHO’S WHO LEGAL - PRODUCT LIABILTY DEFENCE
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