Michael Eady has the unique experience of representing clients during the most challenging litigation environments. He focuses in the management and legal strategy of mass torts and pattern product liability litigation. For over a decade he has managed litigation in Texas by developing and implementing long term strategies which include changing the common law. His experience includes creating the first statewide multi-district litigation in Texas during the Bridgestone/ Firestone tire recall and acting in the capacity as Ford Motor Company’s liaison counsel in that litigation and the current multidistrict litigation involving speed control deactivation switches. Over the last sixteen years, he has fulfilled the role of appellate counsel at trial in more than 30 high profile automotive product liability cases in Texas, Mississippi, and Illinois.

• First Administrative Judicial Region, MASTER FILE NO. 01-3692, IN RE BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE AND FORD CASES COORDINATED FOR PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER RULE 11 OF THE TEXAS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
• Second Administrative Judicial Region, MASTER FILE NO. 01-01-410, IN RE BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE AND FORD CASES COORDINATED FOR PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER RULE 11 OF THE TEXAS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
• Third Administrative Judicial Region, MASTER FILE NO. GN-101337, IN RE BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE AND FORD CASES COORDINATED FOR PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER RULE 11 OF THE TEXAS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
• Fourth Administrative Judicial Region, MASTER FILE NO. 2001-CI-04351, IN RE BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE AND FORD CASES COORDINATED FOR PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER RULE 11 OF THE TEXAS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
• Fifth Administrative Judicial Region, MASTER FILE NO. 2001-04-010000, IN RE BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE AND FORD CASES COORDINATED FOR PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER RULE 11 OF THE TEXAS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
• Sixth Administrative Judicial Region, MASTER FILE NO. 2004-0001, IN RE BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE AND FORD CASES COORDINATED FOR PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER RULE 11 OF THE TEXAS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
• Seventh Administrative Judicial Region, MASTER FILE NO. 01-11-00029-7TH, IN RE BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE AND FORD CASES COORDINATED FOR PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER RULE 11 OF THE TEXAS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
• Eighth Administrative Judicial Region, MASTER FILE NO. 236-188500-01, IN RE BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE AND FORD CASES COORDINATED FOR PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS UNDER RULE 11 OF THE TEXAS RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
• Cause No, 04-0262, In re Firestone/Ford Litigation (order of the Multidistrict Litigation Panel pronounced May 4, 2004), assigned to the Honorable K. Michal Mayes as Pretrial Judge, Master File No. 01-01-410, in the 410th Judicial District Court of Montgomery County, Texas
• Cause No. 07-0953, In re Ford Motor Company Speed Control Deactivation Switch Litigation (order of the Multidistrict Litigation Panel pronounced February 19, 2008); assigned to the Honorable Scott Jenkins as Pretrial Judge, Master file No. D-1-GN-08-000901, In re Ford Motor Company Speed Control Deactivation Switch Litigation, in the 53rd Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas
  
  

• Texas Association of Defense Counsel Amicus Committee, 2000 to the present
• Pattern Jury Charges—Malpractice, Premises and Products Committee, member 2007 to present
• Defense Research Institute

• Preservation of Error: Pre-Trial and Trial, State Bar of Texas, Nuts and Bolts of Appellate Practice, September 9, 2009, Austin, Texas (paper only)
• Federal Pretrial Practice, State Bar of Texas, Pre-Trial Practice, May 15, 2009, Austin, Texas
• Preservation of Error: Appellate Considerations for Trial Lawyers, 30th Annual Page Keeton Civil Litigation Conference, October 26-27, 2006, Austin, Texas (paper only)
• Punitive Damages: ONE YEAR AFTER STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. CAMPBELL, 538 U.S. 408 (2003), 2004 Texas Association of Defense Counsel Summer Seminar

PUBLICATIONS

• A Practitioner’s Guide For the Use of Protective Orders and Confidentiality Agreements, State Bar Litigation Section Report, The Advocate, Vol. 27 Summer 2004

• Board Certified—Civil Appellate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1995 to present
• Law & Politics magazine's Texas Super Lawyers® - Super Lawyer for Appellate – 2007-2012