Marc is a member of the international coordinating counsel team in the firm’s Geneva office where he advises clients on defending product liability and consumer claims around the world. His litigation practice has focused primarily on Western Europe, Western Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Asia. He has also advised clients on legislative projects, such as class actions, in North and South America, Europe, Africa and Australasia.

While in the United States, Marc worked on the national counsel team representing companies in silica exposure claims filed in both state courts and the Federal Silica MDL, and the national counsel teams representing tobacco manufacturers in Mississippi and Indiana. Additionally, he advised companies on document retention and e-discovery projects. In 2006, he assisted in a pro bono retrial of a death penalty case in Missouri.

In law school, Marc was chief notes editor of the Review of Litigation, an intern for Judge James A. Baker at the Texas Supreme Court, and a research assistant for University of Texas Professors Charles Silver and Lynn Baker.

Before law school, Marc was the editor for the Texas House of Representatives Journal, which documented legislation during the 77th legislative session. Marc is proficient in German and spent a year at the Karl-Eberhard Universität in Tübingen, Germany.

Harvey L. Kaplan, William J. Crampton & Marc E. Shelley, Chapter 7: Class Action Developments Overseas, in Product Liability Litigation: Current Law, Strategies and Best Practices (PLI 2009)

Gregory L. Fowler, Marc Shelley & Silvia Kim, Emerging Trends in International Litigation: Class Actions, Litigation Funding and Punitive Damages, Dispute Resolution International (International Bar Association), October 2009, at 101 View

Gregory L. Fowler & Marc E. Shelley, United States, in Getting the Deal Through: Product Liability in 36 Jurisdictions Worldwide (Law Business Research Ltd., 2009) View

Gregory L. Fowler & Marc E. Shelley, International Coordinating Counsel: The Next Evolution of Litigation Management, 4:1 Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal, Winter 2009, at 194 View

Gregory L. Fowler & Marc E. Shelley, International Coordinating Counsel: The Next Evolution of Litigation Management, 2:21 Bloomberg Law Reports: Litigation, May 27, 2008, at 2 View

Gregory L. Fowler & Marc E. Shelley, United States, Getting The Deal Through—Product Liability 2008 (April 2008)

(acknowledged contributor) Gregory L. Fowler & Simon J. Castley, Product Manufacturers, Take Heed: International Markets Bring International Regulatory Oversight, Safety Standards and Liability Concerns, Bloomberg European Business Law Journal (Vol. 1), Winter 2007, at 83 View

(acknowledged contributor) Gregory L. Fowler & Simon J. Castley, Product Manufacturers, Take Heed: International Markets Bring International Regulatory Oversight, Safety Standards and Liability Concerns, Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal (Vol. 2), Winter 2007, at 83 View

Gregory L. Fowler, Samuel B. Sebree II & Marc E. Shelley, Seeking Discovery in U.S. Courts to Aid in Foreign Proceedings, DRI Europe eNews, September 2007 View

Laurel J. Harbour & Marc E. Shelley, The Emerging European Class Action: Expanding Multi-Party Litigation to a Shrinking World, The Practical Litigator, July 2007, at 23 View

Laurel J. Harbour & Marc E. Shelley, The Emerging European Class Action: Expanding Multi-Party Litigation To A Shrinking World, 2006 ABA Annual Meeting, Section of Litigation (August 2006) View

Marc is a member of the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and the Missouri Bar Association.

2004   J.D., University of Texas School of Law

2000   B.A., magna cum laude, University of Missouri - Columbia
           (degrees in German and philosophy; Phi Beta Kappa)

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