Miami
Washington, DC
Areas of focus
Represents clients in product defense, class actions, mass tort litigation, and complex civil disputes
Leads high-stakes courtroom strategy and serves as trial counsel
Tony Upshaw delivers a long track record of courtroom success in product defense, class action, mass tort litigation, and complex civil disputes. He has tried more than 30 civil jury trials to verdict – experience that matters when the stakes are high.
Ranked in
The Best Lawyers in America 2026
Ranked in
Legal 500 US 2025
Recognized by
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (inducted 2016)
Results
- Serves as national trial counsel for Monsanto in polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) litigation and Glyphosate (Roundup) litigation
- Served with others on the McDermott team as national coordinating counsel for Honeywell International’s Bendix asbestos docket
- Served as lead counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in the individual follow-up cases to the national flight attendant class action lawsuit against the tobacco industry
- Represented a major oil company in pending benzene exposure litigation in Florida and New Jersey
- Defends major companies in products liability class actions, including pharmaceutical, asbestos, and pollution claims
Recognitions
- Best Lawyers in America, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants (2023-2026), Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, 2026
- Legal 500 US, 2020-2025
- Lawyers of Color, Power list, 2023
- Chambers USA, Product liability: Toxic Torts, Band 1 2023-2026
- Benchmark Litigation 2016-2020
Capabilities and Industries
Regional Markets
Community
- 11th Circuit Court Committee on Professionalism
- McDermott Will & Schulte Justice, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, global head
- McDermott Will & Schulte Executive Committee, member
- McDermott Will & Schulte Management Committee, member
Credentials
Education
- University of Miami School of Law, JD
- United States Coast Guard Academy, BS
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Florida
Courts / Agencies
- US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- US District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- US District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- US District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Languages
- Inglese
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