About Rod

Rod is an international products lawyer with more than 25 years of experience supporting the world’s top and most innovative companies with their product liability, product compliance and product safety issues. He is routinely ranked as a leader in major legal directories, where he has been described as an ‘outstanding go-to specialist for product liability matters’, ‘one of the top product liability and product regulatory experts worldwide’, and ‘without a shadow of a doubt, the most knowledgeable product liability lawyer in the European space’. Regarded as a ‘real technical expert with knowledge of all the latest developments and an enormously instinctive feel for the law’, Rod appeared on The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2018 list of UK lawyers and is recognised in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame. He also was named the Who’s Who Legal Lawyer of the Year for Product Liability Defence for two consecutive years (2022 and 2023) and was the first lawyer outside of North America to win that accolade.

Passions

Testing my risk assessment skills in cycle road racing

Scuba diving

I am passionate about understanding my clients’ products, technologies, business drivers and the industries in which they operate.

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Admissions and credentials

  • England and Wales
  • Brussels (B List)

Rankings and accolades

The Legal 500 UK: Product Liability - Leading Individual & Hall of Fame (2022)

Chambers and Partners: Product Liability (Star Individual) (2022)

Who's Who Legal, Product Liability Defence 

Memberships and affiliations

  • International Consumer Products Health and Safety Organization, director
  • Product Liability Advisory Council (US)
  • International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
  • Defense Research Institute
  • Product Liability Forum (PLF) – British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)

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