ichelle L. Tiger, whose main focus with Kline & Specter is mass tort litigation, joined the firm in 2001 after gaining a wealth of experience at several other firms in a wide range of practice areas.
 Her
hands-on knowledge in the complex field of mass torts helped win
her selection as among “The Best Attorneys in Pennsylvania”
by Super Lawyers 2004 magazine, whose survey and review determined
those attorneys who are among the state’s top five percent.
Tiger is currently involved in lawsuits against the
manufacturers of a number of pharmaceuticals, including
Vioxx,
Celebrex, Bextra, diet drugs
such as
Fen-Phen, and Baycol,
Serzone,
Lotronex
and PPA,
the last an ingredient in many best-selling cold medications
and diet aids. Tiger coordinated the national discovery
process in the case against Baycol, a popular cholesterol-lowering
drug that has resulted in renal failure and at least 31
known deaths.
Tiger also is involved in suits involving drugs that
have come under recent scrutiny, including
atypical antipsychotic
drugs such as Zyprexa and Risperdal (associated with
reported cases of diabetes) and the Ortho Evra birth control patch (associated with a higher risk of potentially deadly blood clots).
While earning her law degree at Villanova University
in 1985, Tiger worked for an insurance defense firm in
Philadelphia and after graduation joined a private firm
in Tucson where she worked on plaintiff’s personal
injury cases as well as civil rights, bankruptcy law and
real estate transactions.
She later worked at two Philadelphia law firms, concentrating
on insurance defense, with an emphasis on product liability.
As an associate and later a shareholder at Marshall, Dennehey,
Warner, Coleman & Goggin in Philadelphia, Tiger worked
on product liability cases involving everything from disposable
cigarette lighters (BIC) to emergency generators (Kohler
Corp.), and from toilets to automobiles. In premises liability
cases, Tiger has worked on cases involving bowling alleys,
parking lots and apartment houses.
She also represented American Airlines in federal multi-district
litigation over the Dec. 20, 1995 mountainside crash of
Flight 965 in Cali, Colombia, in which all but four passengers
were killed.
Tiger co-authored an article about the mass tort judicial process and pharmaceutical litigation titled "Philadelphia Mass Tort Program: Alive and Well" in the February 2005 issue of Product Liability Law & Strategy.
Tiger received her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca
College and spent a semester studying at the University
of Tel Aviv. She is admitted to practice in state and
federal courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Arizona
as well as before the federal Court of Appeals and the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Tiger is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association
as well as the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice. She is AV rated in Martindale-Hubbell.
To contact Michelle Tiger, email her at
Michelle.Tiger@KlineSpecter.com
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