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Michael Tuttle

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Michael Tuttle
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Michael Tuttle

Partner

Michael Tuttle
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Michael’s practice specializes in the defense of toxic tort claims involving asbestos, industrial chemical exposures, environmental contamination, as well as the defense of personal injury, product manufacturer and supplier liability, corporate structure liability, and premises liability matters and has successfully represented manufacturers, suppliers and distributors. Michael has zealously represented clients at hundreds of fact-witness and corporate-witness depositions. Additionally, Michael has deposed expert geologists, pulmonologists, material scientists, biostatisticians, and occupational medicine physicians in advance of trial.

Companies, both large and small, face present-day lawsuits alleging injuries and damages arising from occurrences that happened decades ago and now seek assistance in defending these long-tail liabilities. Michael has extensive experience and expertise in all phases of litigation, including pre-suit investigation, written discovery, depositions, expert retention and development, dispositive motion practice and jury selection. He has a strong track record of success in dispositive motions on complex issues such as causation, personal jurisdiction, and successor liability.

Prior to joining Foley Mansfield, Michael worked as a toxic tort litigation attorney in a New York office of a regional law firm. Earlier in his career, he worked as an assistant district attorney in New York where he prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases and tried multiple criminal trials to verdict. Prior to his legal career, Michael worked as a big-data analyst for a Fortune 100 telecommunications company. While in law school, Michael worked as a Research Fellow (2015 to 2016) to constitutional law scholar and former president of the ACLU, Prof. Nadine Strossen.

Additionally, Michael has served on his local library’s Board of Trustees and he has volunteered with the Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and the Legal Services of the Hudson Valley advocating for various matters that concern vulnerable populations.

Memberships

  • New York State Bar Association
  • Defense Research Institute (DRI), Vice Chair, The Brief Case Subcommittee (2022-2023)
  • International Academy of Trial Attorneys

Education

  • New York Law School, JD (2016)
  • State University of New York at Purchase, BA (2010)

Representative Matters

  • May 2025. Obtained summary judgment in favor of our Client, a municipality, in a personal injury lawsuit, successfully concluding a years-long dispute. After hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court of New York dismissed Plaintiff’s complaint in its entirety and all cross-claims against our Client and issued a written decision finding that the municipality effectively demonstrated that “they did not have prior written notice” of the defect Plaintiff alleged caused her physical injuries. Shtapel, Index No. 510608/2020.
  • October 2024. Hon. Sabrina Krauss of the New York County Supreme Court issued a decision and order from the bench after oral arguments that the Firm’s client, a former representative of the estate of a clergy member who was accused of sexual abuse occurring decades earlier, should not be substituted in place of the deceased clergy member and plead into the matter. The Plaintiff’s allegations related to claims of child sexual abuse in the early 1970’s in New York City and under New York’s Child Victims Act, such civil lawsuits are permitted to proceed decades after the abuse claims are alleged to have occurred. The Firm prevailed and the Court found that Plaintiff’s “inordinate and unexcused delay in seeking a substitution resulted in undue prejudice” to the Firm’s client and “should not be overlooked.” Michael Tuttle, drafted the arguments and the papers in opposition to Plaintiff.
  • January 2024. Member of a multi-firm trial team that successfully defended a well-known manufacturer of talcum powder products during a four-week, product-liability trial in January 2024 in the matter of Henderson v. Taylor-Seidenbach, Inc. et al., Civ. Dist. Ct. Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
  • November 2022. Argued an appeal before the Appellate Division, First Department of the State of New York on behalf of a safety apparel manufacturer to reverse a Supreme Court personal jurisdiction ruling in the matter, Pira v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. et al., published November 2022.
  • February 2022. Member of a trial team that successfully defended a well-known manufacturer of talcum powder products during a six-week, product-liability trial that began in February 2022 in Bryant, et al. v. Johnson & Johnson, Inc., et al., Cir. Ct. Wayne Cnty., Michigan.
  • December 2021. Member of a legal team that successfully settled a small-share toxic tort claim seeking more than $1 million in damages from a plastics manufacturer based on allegations of direct, occupational, exposure to asbestos-containing materials. Michael and the team performed exhaustive pre-trial discovery and achieved a prompt settlement for a fraction of the initial demand.

Community Service

  • Represented, pro bono, a homeowner and successfully gained a dismissal of criminal charges related to unlawful and unpermitted home improvement work in a criminal case before the Justice Court of the Town of Orangetown, State of New York in November 2023.
  • New York Law School, Froessel Moot Court Competition, Judge (2020-2023).
  • Orangeburg Library, Board of Trustees (2019-2022).
  • Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and the Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (2017-2018).

Media

  • “Cosmetics Industry Faces First Federal Testing Requirements for Talc Safety—Mandated By MoCRA, FDA to Close Regulatory Gap in Cosmetic Talc Testing,” FM News, January 2025
  • “EPA’s Final Rule to Reduce Methane and Other Pollution from Oil and Natural Gas Operations,” FM News, May 2024
  • “Fighting the Good Fight, In Limine Motions,” The Brief Case: DRI Committee News, October 2023
  • “Pre-Discovery Deposition Investigations Pay Dividends,” The Brief Case: DRI Committee News, June 2023
  • “J&J Cannot Use Bankruptcy to Resolve Claims Related to Talcum Powder Products,” The Brief Case: DRI Committee News, April 2023

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

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