How Judge Fallon Works His MDL Magic

“Forty-five percent of all civil litigation in federal courts falls into an MDL now,” according to Judge Eldon E. Fallon.

And that percentage is growing as the device is being increasingly used for product liability litigation, he said recently. Harnessing technology has been a key ingredient for Fallon in managing several high-profile multidistrict litigations, he said.

Edward Sherman, professor of civil procedure at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, called Fallon a “pioneer in the creative use of MDLs and bellwether trials.”

Fallon, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, presides over the MDLs involving ...