Current Scope of Practice
Alan Vickery, co-chair of Sedgwick’s Drug and Medical Device Practice Group, represents large pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. He has significant experience handling complex litigation and frequently serves as national, regional and state counsel in mass tort litigation.
Mr. Vickery’s recent experience includes serving as national counsel for pharmaceutical manufacturers in cases involving antidepressants, hormone replacement therapy and over the counter cough and cold medicine. As Texas regional counsel, he has represented a manufacturer of a weight-loss medication and was involved in high profile medical device litigation. Mr. Vickery also handled the defense of thousands of cases on behalf of an asbestos manufacturer in Texas. In his role handling complex mass tort litigation, Mr. Vickery has been responsible for cases transferred to multi-district litigation (“MDL”) and has worked extensively with scientific and medical experts.
Affiliations, Activities and Accomplishments
Mr. Vickery is admitted to practice in Texas (1986), and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, Dallas Bar Association and the Drug & Medical Device Committee of the Defense Research Institute.
Presentations and Publications
Mr. Vickery authored “Legal Issues Affecting Malpractice,” Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Breast Cancer Update (1995).