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Milton S. Karfis

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Milton (Mel) Karfis counsels and defends clients nationwide in products liability matters for a variety of industrial and consumer products. He specializes in defending hunting and outdoor recreational products, including treestands, guns, bows, crossbows, arrows and safety harnesses.

As a specialist in complex product liability cases, Mel handles matters in 45 states. As lead trial counsel, Mel has successfully represented client’s interests throughout the country in state and federal courts.

Mel also successfully defends clients in products liability matters in a wide variety of industrial and consumer products, including, but not limited to: airplanes, asbestos, automated doors, automobiles, bicycles, boats, boilers, office chairs, furniture, child car seats, compactors, conveyor lines, directional boring machines, flammable fabrics, flammable liquids, garbage trucks, gasoline fuel dispensers, gasoline nozzles, guns, hair care products, helmets, industrial chemicals, industrial machinery of all types, industrial paint lines, kerosene heaters, lawn mowers, power presses, radiant heaters, robotic equipment, rope/cables, semi-trucks, sludge pumps, snow blowers, snowmobiles, treestands, water heaters, and windows.

Education

J.D., cum laude, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan, 1996
B.A., cum laude, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1992

Memberships

State Bar of Michigan

State Bar Licenses

Michigan

Court Admissions

U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit
U.S. District Ct., N.D. of Alabama
U.S. District Ct., C.D. of Illinois
U.S. District Ct., E.D. of Michigan
U.S. District Ct., W.D. of Michigan
U.S. District Ct., E.D. of Missouri
U.S. District Ct., W.D. of Missouri
U.S. District Ct., N.D. of New York
U.S. District Ct., W.D. of New York
U.S. District Court, E.D. of Oklahoma
U.S. District Court, W.D. of Oklahoma
U.S. District Ct., E.D. of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Ct., W.D. of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Ct., W.D. of Tennessee