CONCENTRATION
Kris Tilley is a senior shareholder of the Davis Brown Law Firm and a trial attorney in the Firm's Litigation Division. Her practice is devoted to general civil litigation matters.
SUMMARY
Kris' trial experience encompasses litigation in both federal and state courts. She has handled a wide variety of civil cases including the vigorous defense of products liability and warranty claims, wrongful death actions, gross negligence claims, breach of contract actions, employment disputes, business torts, and challenges under open meeting laws. She also has defended personal injury claims for numerous insurance companies for over 15 years. Kris has successfully litigated multiple jury trials, many of which culminated in total defense verdicts.
Kris' litigation experience includes serving as local counsel for American Home Products/Wyeth in defense of product liability claims arising out of the diet drug medication commonly referred to as fen/phen. That representation included the disposition of approximately 100 individual cases filed in both state and federal multi-district litigation. She also served as local counsel to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in the defense of over a dozen individual smoker cases filed in federal court. After extensive discovery, each of the smoker cases ultimately was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiffs without any compensation paid to them.
MEMBERSHIPS
Kris is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association and American Bar Association, as well as the Iowa Defense Counsel Association, Polk County Bar Association and Defense Research Institute. She served on the Executive Council of the Young Lawyers Division of the Iowa State Bar Association.
COMMUNITY
Kris was president and a long-term board member of Very Special Arts of Iowa, as well as the Epilepsy Association of Iowa.
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