Sandra L. Duggan is a native of St. Louis and she graduated from Washington University with Phi Beta Kappa. Having earned a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law, Ms. Duggan was admitted to the bar in 1986. Since moving to Philadelphia in 1989, Ms. Duggan has focused her practice on class action and multi-district litigation.

She has served as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the national asbestos property damage class action, Prince George Center, Inc. v. U.S. Gypsum (Pa. Ct. Com. Pl., Phila. Cty.), and she is counsel for class plaintiffs in the Title IX discrimination suit, Cohen v. Brown University, (D.R.I.). Ms. Duggan has worked on In re: School Asbestos Litig., (E.D. Pa.); Asbestos Claimants Committees in Celotex and National Gypsum Chapter 11 bankruptcies; In re: Orthopedic Bone Screw Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL 1014 (E.D. Pa.); Diet Drugs Litigation, MDL 1203 (E.D. Pa.); In re: EXXON VALDEZ; In re: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL 2047 (E.D. La.); In re: VIOXX Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL 1657 (E.D. La.), and other securities fraud, shareholder and property damage class actions in federal and state courts. She assisted Co-Lead Counsel and Subclass Counsel with negotiating the class settlement in In re: National Football League Players’ Concussion Litig., MDL No. 2323 (E.D. Pa.).

In 2022, Ms. Duggan was appointed by the Honorable Joy Flowers Conti to serve as Plaintiffs’ Co-Lead Counsel in In re: Philips Recalled CPAP, Bi-Level PAP, and Mechanical Ventilator Prod. Litig., MDL 3014 (W.D. Pa.). On October 10, 2023, a class settlement of economic loss claims was preliminarily approved.

In 2019, Ms. Duggan negotiated a global class settlement with the Chinese manufacturers in the Chinese Drywall Litigation. See In re Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL 2047, 424 F. Supp. 3d 456 (E.D. La. 2020). She was appointed by the Honorable Eldon E. Fallon to serve as Class Counsel for Plaintiffs in the Global Settlement and she also served as Chair of the Fee Allocation Committee in that case.

In 2015, Ms. Duggan was appointed by the Honorable Carl J. Barbier to serve as Special Counsel to the Plaintiffs’ Fee and Cost Committee in the BP Oil Spill Litigation, In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, MDL 2179 (E.D. La.). Ms. Duggan served as a class action expert in In re “Non-Filing” Insurance Fee Litig., MDL 1130 (M.D. Ala.). She was a contributing author and editor of the Third Edition of Herbert Newberg, Newberg on Class Actions (3d ed. 1992), and she earned a Public Justice Achievement Award in July 1999 from Public Justice for her work on the Brown University Title IX Litigation.

Ms. Duggan is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Ms. Duggan is Mexican American. She is fluent in Spanish.