Bio

Dominic Campodonico is a partner in the San Francisco office. He has more than 20 years of experience serving as national litigation coordinating counsel, regional counsel, and local counsel in mass tort, product liability litigation. He has represented manufacturers and distributors of a variety of pharmaceutical/medical device and laboratory products as well as personal care/consumer products in litigations as well as risk assessments. He has been involved in many California Judicial Council Coordinated Proceedings and has served as Defense Liaison Counsel. Mr. Campodonico’s experience also extends to other industries including automobile parts, household appliances, cosmetics and hair care products, and industrial machinery. He has significant experience handling wrongful death and other catastrophic injury litigation, and has developed an extensive network of prominent experts in many sciences and technologies. Mr. Campodonico also assists his clients with high-stakes matters that frequently occur simultaneously with product liability litigation, such as risk management and compliance, FDA/regulatory issues, government investigations, suits under the federal and California False Claims Act, insurance, and crisis communications. Mr. Campodonico has comprehensive experience in alternative dispute resolution of state and national cases, and has participated as regional and national settlement counsel in mass tort cases. He has extensive experience working with experts in dozens of fields and has defended and taken multiple expert depositions over the course of his career. In that regard, Mr. Campodonico has developed specific expertise in areas related to medical causation and damages, product design and manufacturing, chemical science and safety, regulatory affairs, and sales and marketing. Prior to his work at Gordon & Rees, Mr. Campodonico was a research attorney for three superior court judges in Los Angeles. In 2002, he completed the International Association of Defense Counsel’s Trial Academy in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Campodonico has served as the hiring partner for Gordon & Rees’s Summer Associate Program for the San Francisco office and was a member of the Summer Associate Hiring Committee for eight years. He has also been active in the firm’s Diversity, Community Service, and Pro Bono Committees.