Today, medical device manufacturers and distributors must maneuver troublesome and complicated legal and regulatory hurdles. To add to these concerns, the FDA continues to put additional stumbling blocks in the way of reaching the market with new products and augmenting challenges for production, promotion, and distribution of existing products.
To survive and prosper, medical device companies need legal advice that is both practical and cost effective. These principles guide our attorneys as they advise medical device companies. At Silver & Freedman, the Medical Technology practice has several components:
Counseling
Helping device manufacturers and distributors achieve their business objectives while complying in a cost-effective manner with the numerous and often complex laws and regulations.
Advertising and Promotion
We help medical device companies develop strategies to support successful marketing in accordance with the requirements of law and the enforcement policies of FDA, and other regulatory agencies. As a part of that, we review and assist in the development of instruction manuals and other labeling, with an eye to both product liability and other specific legal requirements.
Crisis Management
Because legal issues often arise without warning and can necessitate quick solutions, the firm's lawyers are always easily accessible so that timely answers are given to eleventh-hour questions.
Litigation
When negotiation fails, Silver & Freedman has over 27 years of trial experience representing medical device companies, whether it be complex business and commercial matters or defending product liability claims.
The involvement of so many of the firm's practice areas in the business of medical devices allows Silver & Freedman to provide our clients with expert knowledge of the industry itself and the ability to draw on the varied industry experience of other lawyers throughout the firm. This "know-how" has not only sharpened the expertise of the Team's litigators, but has also honed their skills in counseling clients on the consequences of such litigation on all aspects of their business.
Our services in the medical device industry have included:
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Corporate counseling
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Employee benefits
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Entity formation
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Joint ventures (domestic and international)
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Labor and employment counseling and litigation
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Mergers and acquisitions
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Non-compete agreements
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Commercial litigation
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Preventative law counseling
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Product liability defense
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Risk management
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In-house workshops
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Technology licensing
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Tax counseling