A member of the firm's Products Liability and Personal Injury Group, Chris Conoscenti is experienced in handling products liability and insurance coverage litigation in both state and federal court.

As part of a team of Venable attorneys serving as national or regional counsel on behalf of several international pharmaceutical companies, Mr. Conoscenti focuses his practice on complex pharmaceutical litigation.  He has had direct supervisory responsibility for the collection, review, analysis, and production of millions of pages of complex pharmaceutical company documents, including regulatory submissions and adverse experience reports.  In this role, Mr. Conoscenti has also assisted with factual investigation and development for company cases in federal and state court and has had direct management responsibility for large review teams comprised of associate attorneys, staff attorneys and paralegals.  Mr. Conoscenti has extensive experience with electronic discovery methods and requirements and has assisted in establishing protocols for the capture and processing of electronically stored information on behalf of an international pharmaceutical company.  Mr. Conoscenti has taken depositions of expert and fact witnesses and has been a member of a team of attorneys in defense of a pharmaceutical company in a multi-week trial in federal court. 

Mr. Conoscenti recently attended the International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy, an intensive, week-long program designed to develop defense trial advocacy skills.