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Sandra Ko
OVERVIEW

Sandra M. Ko

Partner

Washington, D.C.

555 12th Street N.W.
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20004-1275

Los Angeles

2029 Century Park East
Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90067

P 310-284-3899

F 202-289-1330

Sandra M. Ko is the Co-Chair of Barnes & Thornburg’s Consumer and Industrial Products practice group, a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices, and a member of the Litigation Department. She is also a member of the Drug and Medical Device Litigation and the eDiscovery, Data and Document Management practice groups.

OVERVIEW

Sandra M. Ko is the Co-Chair of Barnes & Thornburg’s Consumer and Industrial Products practice group, a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices, and a member of the Litigation Department. She is also a member of the Drug and Medical Device Litigation and the eDiscovery, Data and Document Management practice groups.

For nearly a decade, Sandra has defended companies in a broad range of commercial and product liability litigations, particularly representing Fortune 500 companies in consumer class actions, multidistrict litigations, coordinated proceedings, and individual product liability cases in federal and state courts nationwide.

Sandra currently focuses her practice on discovery management and e-discovery, with an emphasis on discovery management of mass tort product liability claims. She regularly counsels clients on strategies related to data preservation, collection, processing, review and production. Sandra has experience implementing review workflows that use technology-assisted review, successfully leveraging technology to efficiently and cost-effectively identify relevant key facts and issues contained in the data. Her e-discovery experience includes managing and executing e-discovery strategies in matters relating to pharmaceutical and medical device mass torts, diligence/acquisitions, mergers, FCPA investigations, and EU and Asia data privacy law issues. Supplementing her e-discovery experience, Sandra also is trained in information governance principles. Sandra's discovery management experience includes preparing written discovery, preparing and defending corporate witnesses for deposition, and taking and defending depositions of fact and expert witnesses.

Complementing her discovery management and e-discovery practice, Sandra is an experienced general litigator, having managed commercial and product liability cases from case intake to jury verdict. She has resolved cases in favor of her clients in motions at the pleading stage and through dispositive motions. She has been part of trial teams in more than a dozen jury trials, and her trial experience includes arguing evidentiary issues during trial; preparing trial briefs, jury instructions and verdict forms; and preparing fact and expert witnesses for testimony.

Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, Sandra was a senior consultant for an international e-discovery consulting firm and was in private practice with firms in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

Experience
  • Representing a major automotive manufacturer in several toxic tort trials alleging personal injury or wrongful death from trial to jury verdict
  • Serving as lead associate on a trial team on behalf of an armament manufacturer in a personal injury and wrongful death product liability action in the District of Hawaii, obtaining a defense verdict following a six-week jury trial
  • Obtaining summary judgment on behalf of a furniture manufacturer and the distributor in a product liability case alleging personal injury
  • Successfully defeating plaintiff's petition for writ review to California Court of Appeals of the trial court's rulings on demurrers without leave to amend at the pleading stage in a commercial dispute against a super precision ball bearing manufacturer alleging significant economic damages
  • Defeating plaintiffs' motion for new trial after obtaining a favorable jury verdict in a personal injury case in Nevada against an employer for the alleged negligence of its employee

*This experience occurred prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg.

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