The Coming Effect of Artificial Intelligence and Implications in the Legal Services Industry

Chris Berdy is a member of Butler Snow’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Healthcare Litigation Group and serves as Chair of the firm’s Artificial Intelligence committee. He has extensive experience defending manufacturers of pharmaceutical products and medical devices, including developing, coordinating, and implementing defense strategies in concurrent federal and state court consolidated proceedings, deposing healthcare providers and expert witnesses, and retention, development of, and challenges to expert witnesses. He also has broad experience in defending a wide variety of consumer, commercial and industrial products and manufacturing systems.

Chris has been recognized by the Birmingham Business Journal as one of its 2021 Best of the Bar and B-Metro Birmingham Business Magazine selected him as one of “Birmingham’s Top Attorneys.” He has also been recognized for his expertise by Best Lawyers in America® and Mid-South Super Lawyers®, and he is AV® – Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®. He is a frequent speaker on trial and litigation-related topics, and he regularly authors articles for Butler Snow’s pharmaceutical and medical device industry publication, Pro Te: Solutio, as well as other industry publications. Chris was recognized by the Academic Board of the Burton Awards as one of Law360’s 2024 Distinguished Legal Writing Award winners for his article, “The Nuremberg Trials: A Story for Trial Lawyers.” This prestigious honor is only presented to 20 writers from nominations submitted by the top 1,000 largest law firms across the United States.

From 2020-2023, Chris Berdy was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) and has served in numerous other leadership roles with IADC, including serving on the faculty of IADC’s 2018 Trial Academy, Chair of the CLE Committee, and Chair of the Alabama State Membership Committee. He is involved in a number of other legal organizations, including the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, Defense Research Institute (DRI), Food and Drug Law Institute, and the American Bar Association.

Chris is active in the local community. A dual citizen of the United States and Austria, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Holocaust Education Center, a long-time member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham and St. Mary’s-on-the-Highlands Episcopal Church, and a member of Leadership Birmingham’s Class of 2015. He is a former Washington & Lee University National Alumni Board member, former Birmingham Area Chair of the Alumni Admissions Program of Washington & Lee, and past president of the Washington & Lee Birmingham Alumni Chapter.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University and his Juris Doctor from Cumberland School of Law.