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Pamela R. Hanebutt

Pam Hanebutt is a general litigator whose experience encompasses a wide variety of disputes.  Over the last decade, the principal focus of Pam's practice has been product liability, toxic torts and environmental litigation, including:  defective product and failure to warn claims, alleged diminution of property value damage claims, Superfund and related contribution litigation, and environmental enforcement litigation.  Recent representative matters include:

• In Re MTBE Products Liability multidistrict litigation pending in the Southern District of New York, in which Pam represents CITGO Petroleum Corporation in dozens of suits filed by local and state governments and private water suppliers, arising out of the use of MTBE in gasoline;
• Chondrolysis litigation, involving more than a hundred personal injury cases filed in state and federal courts around the country against a medical device manufacturer alleging failure to warn;
• Ethanol litigation in which plaintiffs sought to certify a state-wide class of boat owners who alleged that ethanol in gasoline caused engine failure; and
• TCE litigation against a tool and die manufacturer alleging property damage as a result of groundwater contamination.

Pam is also active in pro bono matters and has represented indigent clients in Immigration Court.  She is a 1984 graduate of Tulane Law School, with an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois.