John O'Connor is a director in a Litigation Group. His practice focuses on product liability, intellectual property and business tort litigation. He is listed as a 2004 Northern California Super Lawyer by the Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine (a publication in conjunction with Law and Politics and San Francisco Magazine).

Mr. O'Connor has tried over 60 jury and court cases, the great majority of moderate to great complexity, including product liability, professional liability, directors and officers liability, white-collar crime, fraud, contract, civil RICO, trade secret, unfair competition, antitrust, labor and employment practices, civil rights, insurance coverage and bad faith, construction, real estate, defamation and government liability. He was twice featured as "Litigator in Profile" by Verdicts and Settlements magazine for excellence in defense of complex jury cases.

At Howard Rice, Mr. O'Connor has been selected by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to be its lead counsel in several significant smoking and health cases, thus...