Ms. Theis has significant experience with many facets of mass torts.
Ms. Theis’s practice is primarily focused on mass tort resolution and settlement. As national settlement counsel and as a neutral, Ms. Theis has experience negotiating, structuring, and administering settlements, ranging from resolution of individual cases to aggregate settlements. Ms. Theis has been responsible for analyzing complex scientific concepts and evaluating claims in order to develop compensation matrices and to facilitate the equitable allocation of settlement funds. She has also worked with lien administrators and bankruptcy trustees to help usher settlements to completion.
As Special Master of Wave Discovery in In re 3M Combat Arms Earplug Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2885, Ms. Theis oversaw the expedited case-specific discovery of several concurrent waves each consisting of hundreds of cases. She coordinated with both plaintiff and defense leadership to facilitate the orderly and efficient completion of discovery. Ms. Theis also mediated case-specific discovery disputes as they arose.
Finally, Ms. Theis has experience with MDL common benefit fund administration. She has assisted in creating systems and processes for attorney common benefit time and expense submission, overseen the development of common benefit budgets, and monitored common benefit contributions, expenditures, and work. She also has assisted with evaluating attorney MDL contributions for the allocation of common benefit awards.
During her free time, Ms. Theis enjoys playing Euchre, watching horror movies, and cooking for friends.