Mr. Heiden has tried and won a series of high-profile cases, including the $4 billion Pro Football Lockout Fund trial, the lead high school football class-action case. His client was the only corporate defendant dismissed on the merits from the massive Gulf Spill litigation. His energy and utility litigation includes trials involving oil and gas interest interests in the Marcellus Shale; the operation of a crude-by-rail facility on the Houston Ship Channel; the design, engineering, and construction of nuclear plants, and the operation of electric generating stations.

He has successfully defended toxic tort cases in California, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and member and former Global Chair of Latham’s Product Liability, Mass Torts & Consumer Class Actions Practice.

Tried cases arising from catastrophic industrial accidents (including the tragic Ford-Rouge powerhouse explosion), served as lead trial counsel in 5,000 personal injury toxic tort suits in Mississippi.

Served as lead trial counsel in the first steam generator replacement case; tried a six-month jury trial over a pressure-suppression containment system; tried the qui tam nuclear security case at the Rocky Flats Arsenal. Extensive upstream and downstream oil and gas trial experience.

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