Melanie Bailey

Melanie S. Bailey is a shareholder in Burg Simpson's Cincinnati office, practicing in complex civil litigation, pharmaceutical and general products liability, multi-district litigation, personal injury, wrongful death, and class action litigation. She has devoted substantial time to litigating defective medical devices and pharmaceutical cases, with extensive involvement in MDL cases such as Ortho Evra, contaminated Heparin, Yasmin/Yaz, Depakote, Fosamax, and Elmiron. In January 2021, she was appointed by Judge Brian M. Martinotti to serve on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the In re Elmiron Products Liability Litigation (MDL 2973) in the District of New Jersey. She has also been involved in consolidated class action litigation arising from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio.