Ms. Bossier has spent over thirty years litigating complex civil state and federal court cases throughout the country, involving a broad range of legal issues. She began her legal career with a large litigation firm in New Orleans, LA prior to relocating to Raleigh, NC in 1990. While practicing in Raleigh, she was primarily involved in the defense of products liability and medical negligence claims. She was admitted to practice and represented clients before the North Carolina Supreme Court, the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Additionally, she was active in the North Carolina State Bar Association, as an officer in the Young Lawyer’s Division.
In 1997, Ms. Bossier became a member of the Mississippi Bar, and has been admitted to practice before the Mississippi Supreme Court, the Mississippi Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi. For a number of years, she continued a litigation practice as a partner with a large Jackson, MS law firm. There, she assumed the primary responsibility of representing many large companies in toxic tort and products liability cases in Mississippi and across the country. In addition, Ms. Bossier served in the position of National Coordinating Counsel and National Trial Team Counsel for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Her client involvement on the national level caused her to be highly involved in the development of the nationwide defense strategies for these clients, which entailed development of experts, trial plans, and education of local counsel throughout the country.
In 2003, Ms. Bossier formed her own law firm in Jackson, MS, where she expanded her litigation practice to include the representation of individuals who were injured as a result of the negligence of third parties. She has served as lead counsel in defective drug, medical device, toxic tort, environmental contamination, professional liability, medical malpractice, and trucking accident cases, which resulted in favorable jury verdicts and monetary recoveries for many individual clients. Of note, Ms. Bossier was lead trial counsel in an environmental contamination case involving thousands of residents of Crystal Springs, Mississippi, who were injured by PCB exposure, and after four years of litigation, two multi-million dollar settlements were achieved with the culpable parties. Ms. Bossier’s involvement in pharmaceutical drug litigation includes representation of clients injured by Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra, Seroquel, Zyprexa and Avandia. She has also litigated defective medical device cases for plaintiffs across the country, including Medtronic defibrillators, Zimmer NexGen knee devices, DePuy ASR and Pinnacle hip devices, IVC Filters, transvaginal mesh, and hernia mesh devices. Since 2011, Ms. Bossier and her firm have been involved in the litigation of transvaginal mesh (TVM) cases, both in the federal multidistrict litigation (MDLs) as well as in state courts around the country. She notably appeared as lead counsel in one of the first state court TVM trials involving a client severely injured by a Boston Scientific Corp. pelvic mesh device, which resulted in a $72 million dollar jury verdict in Dallas County, Texas. This verdict was recognized as one of the top 10 Products Liability verdicts of 2014.
Ms. Bossier’s experience in defective drug and medical device litigation has been recognized by her peers and the judiciary and has resulted in her serving in leadership roles in multidistrict litigation across the country involving thousands of plaintiffs. Ms. Bossier’s leadership roles have included appointment by Honorable Eldon Fallon, United States District Court Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana, to the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in In Re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1657; appointment by Honorable Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, United States District Court Judge, Northern District of Illinois, to the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in In Re: Zimmer NexGen Knee Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2272; appointment by Honorable David G. Campbell, United States District Court Judge, District of Arizona, to the Plaintiff’s Leadership Counsel in In Re: Bard IVC Filters Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2641; and appointment by Honorable Patti B. Saris, United States District Court Judge, District of Massachusetts, to the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in In Re: Covidien Hernia Mesh.
Products Liability Litigation (No. II) MDL No. 3029. Ms. Bossier has also served in leadership roles in state court consolidated litigation, including appointments to the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in In Re: Proceed Mesh Litigation (Proceed® Surgical Mesh and Proceed® Ventral Patch Hernia Mesh), and the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in In Re: Prolene Hernia Mesh System Litigation, in the Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division, Atlantic City County, New Jersey.
In addition to representing injured individuals, beginning with an appointment by the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, in 2004, Ms. Bossier served as Special Assistant Attorney General to act as lead counsel in consumer protection litigation involving pharmaceutical drugs Vioxx, Celebrex and Actos. In addition, Ms. Bossier was retained by the State of Mississippi to pursue its claims against Johnson & Johnson/Ethicon and Boston Scientific Corporation related to the sale and distribution of pelvic mesh devices in Mississippi. Her work with the Attorney General’s office to enforce Mississippi’s Consumer Protection Act has resulted in significant monetary recovery for the State, as well as injunctive relief.
In recent years, Ms. Bossier was retained by numerous municipalities in the State of Mississippi to pursue claims against manufacturers and distributors of Opioids, to recover damages sustained by those entities as a result of the Opioid epidemic in the State. After many years of litigation, favorable resolution of most of these claims has occurred, resulting in financial recovery to cities and counties, and significant remediation efforts by the responsible parties.
Ms. Bossier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her B.A. degree in Political Science from Louisiana State University in 1986, and her J.D. degree from Tulane University School of Law in 1989. She is licensed to practice law in Louisiana (1989), North Carolina (1990) and Mississippi (1997).
Over the years, Ms. Bossier has provided trial skills instruction to law school students as part of their coursework and mentored pre-law and law school students, who have expressed an interest in litigation. She has spoken at various continuing legal education seminars relating to toxic torts, products liability, and other mass tort matters, and has appeared as a speaker on behalf of the American Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, and the Capitol Area Bar Association related to these topics. For a number of years, Ms. Bossier served as a Vice-Chair of the ABA’s Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Committee.
In 2015, Ms. Bossier was awarded membership in the Texas Lawyer’s $10 Million Dollar Club related to her representation of the Plaintiffs at trial in Martha Salazar, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation. As a result of that verdict, Ms. Bossier was also selected to the Million Dollar Advocates Forum where she remains a member. In 2016, Ms. Bossier was selected as a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers, an invitation that is only extended to the most qualified attorneys from each state or region. Additionally, since 2016, she has regularly been selected as a Super Lawyer of the Mid-South. Super Lawyers is a creation of Thomson Reuters, which explains at SuperLawyers.com: “Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.” Ms. Bossier has also been selected to the Top 25 Mass Torts Lawyers, an association that encompasses the top 25 attorneys from each state who litigate mass tort actions.
Ms. Bossier is a member of the American Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Capitol Area Bar Association and the American Association for Justice. She has been on the Board of the Mississippi College School of Law Child Advocacy Board, taught trial advocacy programs at Mississippi College Law School, and has served as a Troop Leader for the Girl Scouts of America. In 2007, she became a certified Mediator in the State of Mississippi.
In 2021, Ms. Bossier was inducted as a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation and in 2023, she became a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation.
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