Welcome to the Manufacturing Law Center featuring the Legal Beagle Search Engine.

The Manufacturing Law Center is a Web site that highlights the NAM’s actions to represent the interests of manufacturing in court and monitors legal trends and developments affecting the ability of manufacturers to be treated fairly by the legal system. This site provides information on major lawsuits and trends in litigation affecting manufacturers, along with related efforts to promote a fair and balanced legal system for resolving disputes.

NEW: NAM v. Taylor – suit challenging membership disclosure provision in Lobbying Disclosure Act

(Above: Several lawyers who have represented the NAM in appellate litigation visited with Gov. Engler recently. Pictured are: (front row) Arthur G. Sapper of McDermott Will & Emery, Maurice Baskin of Venable, Rae T. Vann of Norris, Tysse, Lampley & Lakis; (standing) Gov. Engler, Quentin Riegel, vice president for litigation, Thomas W. Kirby of Wiley Rein, John Thorne of Verizon Communications, Inc., Mark Behrens of Shook Hardy & Bacon, and Todd A. Lard of the Council on State Taxation.)