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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    Live Online with Live Q&A

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Class Action and Other Litigation

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Tuesday, June 10, 2025

  • schedule Time

    1:00 PM E.T.

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

$297.00
CLE
ALL

This CLE webinar will offer guidance and strategies for attorneys litigating lithium-ion battery fires.

Faculty

Caroline G. McGlamry
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Pope McGlamry

Ms. McGlamry graduated cum laude with a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. She spent a year working in Washington, D.C. before furthering her studies at the University of Georgia School of Law where she graduated with a J.D. in 2013. While in law school, Ms. McGlamry served as the Executive Notes Editor for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. She also served as President of UGA’s Street Law and on the Athens Peer Court Design & Implementation Team, where she helped develop and implement a Teen Court model for the Athens, GA community. In 2013, Ms. McGlamry joined Pope McGlamry and has focused her career on representing plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, products and pharmaceutical liability, class actions and mass torts actions.

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Michael L. McGlamry
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Pope McGlamry

Mr. McGlamry is and has been actively representing plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, products and pharmaceutical liability, class actions and mass torts actions that have resulted in verdicts or settlements approaching a billion dollars. He and his partners have long been recognized both in Georgia and nationally as a go-to firm that will take on the most challenging cases and opposition. Mr. McGlamry has focused on mass tort litigation and has served in leadership roles in several national, high profile, injury cases.

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Description

Lithium battery fires are a problem for consumers. Individuals whose phones, e-cycles or scooters, computers, vaping devices, or cars exploded may suffer catastrophic personal injury or extensive property damage.

Lithium battery fires start from "thermal runaways," which are incredibly hot and destructive and hard to extinguish. Good forensic investigation and selecting the right expert(s) are key to preserving what evidence may be left after a fire. The parties will need to understand applicable standards at each phase of manufacture and sale.

Defendant manufacturers, distributors, or retailers may blame fires on any number of events, such as faulty or after-market charging equipment, overuse, careless treatment, or wear and tear. Defendants may also disclaim liability based on warnings provided with the batteries.

Listen as this experienced panel discusses strategies and best practices when litigating lithium-ion battery fire cases.

Outline

  1. Introduction
  2. Lithium-ion battery failure: thermal runaway
    • Fire and origin: fire causation (experts)
    • Lithium-ion battery: failure causation (experts)
  3. Defendants and theories of liability
    • Identifying potential defendants
    • Jurisdiction
    • Design defect, manufacturing defect, failure to warn
    • Medical device: preemption
  4. Insurer, re-insurer, and subrogation issues

Benefits

The panel will review these and other important issues:

  • How to establish jurisdiction over a foreign manufacturer
  • What experts are needed to investigate these fires?
  • What other experts are needed to prove liability?
  • How are lithium-ion batteries regulated and who enforces those regulations?
  • What are the most difficult evidentiary challenges in proving this type of a product defect?