John Montgomery

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: Current; His litigation practice has included a variety of complex matters involving securities, pharmaceutical pricing, intellectual property, insurance coverage, commercial tort, product liability, ERISA, and regulatory matters. John has tried cases and argued appeals in Maine, Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.Most recently, John served as lead counsel for Schering-Plough Corporation in In re Average Wholesale Price Litigation, consolidated class actions in which insurers, welfare funds and consumers alleged a nationwide fraud in pharmaceutical pricing.Following a lengthy trial in 2006-2007, a judgment was entered in favor of Schering on all claims. John's experience includes two successful arguments in the United States Supreme Court -- most recently in the landmark decision in Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel in which the court held that a Congressional statute imposing a $100 million retroactive liability on a Ropes Gray client was unconstitutional. Prior to joining Ropes Gray in 1982, John served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He left the firm in 1990 to serve as First Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and returned to Ropes Gray in 1992.

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