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Rankings: MVPs of the Year

Law360’s MVPs of the Year recognizes the five attorneys who had extraordinary wins and contributed most to their practice area in the past year. The series showcases standout attorneys across the practice areas and industries covered by Law360.
  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert J. Giuffra Jr.

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Robert J. Giuffra Jr. worked to represent Volkswagen AG in suits brought by U.S. states and counties over the auto giant's 2015 emissions cheating scandal, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 10, 2019

    MVP: Dechert's Mark Cheffo

    Mark Cheffo, Dechert LLP's product liability and mass torts co-chair, guided Purdue in its move to settle thousands of claims in nationwide opioid litigation brought over the drugmaker's Oxycontin painkiller, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 09, 2019

    MVP: Skadden's John H. Beisner

    Victories while defending against allegations that Johnson & Johnson's talc products cause cancer and that roofing company Tamko Building Products LLC made defective materials are among the accomplishments that earned John H. Beisner of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 06, 2019

    MVP: Motley Rice's Fidelma Fitzpatrick

    Motley Rice LLP's Fidelma Fitzpatrick won a $6 million verdict on behalf of three Wisconsin men who were exposed to lead paint as children, and is leading the massive litigation against Bayer over its Essure birth control device, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 08, 2019

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2019 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • November 30, 2018

    MVP: Kirkland's Richard Godfrey

    Richard Godfrey of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has long represented clients in high-profile and high-stakes matters — including representing BP in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and General Motors Co. in the ignition switch litigation — boosting him to the list of Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 29, 2018

    MVP: Faegre's Andrea Roberts Pierson

    Andrea Roberts Pierson of Faegre Baker Daniels scored major defense victories this year for makers of implanted blood filters and knee replacements targeted in large-scale, multidistrict litigation, earning herself a place among Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 28, 2018

    MVP: Covington's Paul Schmidt

    Paul Schmidt of Covington & Burling LLP has had a big year, stamping out thousands of suits against Accutane maker Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. with a major win in the New Jersey Supreme Court and racking up multiple trial wins in other pharmaceutical cases, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 27, 2018

    MVP: Arnold & Porter's Pamela J. Yates

    Pamela J. Yates of Arnold & Porter was the first lead trial attorney to prevail over multidistrict claims that a testosterone replacement causes heart attacks, and she directed the winning science strategy behind several recent defense verdicts for Bayer, landing her among Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 26, 2018

    MVP: Lanier Law Firm's Mark Lanier

    Plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lanier of the Lanier Law Firm scored a nearly $4.69 billion jury verdict this summer when a St. Louis jury decided that Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder contained asbestos and caused cancer in 22 women, placing him among Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 21, 2018

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 71 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2018 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • December 21, 2017

    MVP: Robins Kaplan's Tara Sutton

    Tara Sutton, the chair of the mass tort group at Robins Kaplan LLP, helped reach a $300 million settlement in August for clients with claims against Daiichi Sankyo Inc. and Forest Laboratories Inc. over the blood pressure drug Benicar, earning her a spot among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs for 2017.

  • December 20, 2017

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert Giuffra Jr.

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Robert Giuffra Jr. has helped Volkswagen settle and litigate claims over its diesel emissions software this year, including securing final approval for a $14.7 billion deal with agencies and consumers, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2017 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 19, 2017

    MVP: Gordon & Rees' Nancy Erfle

    Gordon & Rees LLP's Nancy M. Erfle has taken the lead on managing Imerys Talc America Inc. in its fight against a mass tort that's ballooned over the past year to include more than 7,000 cases alleging talc-based body powder products cause ovarian cancer, landing her among Law360's 2017 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Mark Cheffo

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Mark S. Cheffo wiped out multidistrict litigation over Pfizer’s Lipitor this year, winning the dismissal of more than 3,000 claims that the cholesterol drug caused diabetes, securing him a spot among Law360’s 2017 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 15, 2017

    MVP: Simmons Hanly's Jayne Conroy

    Simmons Hanly Conroy LLC’s Jayne Conroy helped score a $1.04 billion verdict this year on behalf of six patients in the third bellwether trial against Johnson & Johnson and DePuy Orthopaedics, the manufacturer of the Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip replacements, securing her a place as one of Law360’s 2017 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 14, 2017

    MVP: King & Spalding's Andrew Bayman

    King & Spalding LLP's Andrew Bayman helped limit GlaxoSmithKline's damages to $3 million in a closely watched federal trial over the company's liability for the suicide of a Reed Smith LLP partner who used a generic version of Paxil, landing him among Law360's 2017 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 08, 2017

    The Law Firms Of The 2017 MVPs

    Law360's MVP award goes to attorneys who have distinguished themselves from their peers in litigation, deals and other complex matters. Find the MVPs at your firm here.

  • December 08, 2017

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 78 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2017 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • December 22, 2016

    Product Liability MVP: Latham & Watkins' Kenneth Parsigian

    Latham & Watkins partner Kenneth Parsigian's work in helping defeat a class of healthy Marlboro smokers who were seeking to stick Philip Morris with a nearly $190 million tab for annual preventive lung screenings won a spot on this year's list of Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 21, 2016

    Product Liability MVP: Covington's Michael Imbroscio

    Covington & Burling LLP's Michael Imbroscio had a hand in some of the biggest mass tort defense victories this past year, scoring notable wins for Eli Lilly, Roche, Bayer and others, earning him a spot on Law360's list of product liability MVPs.

  • December 20, 2016

    Product Liability MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert Giuffra Jr.

    On Christmas last year, Robert Giuffra of Sullivan & Cromwell was working on a memo outlining the exposures Volkswagen faced in the U.S. following the revelation a few months prior that it was installing software to cheat emissions standards and how the company could quickly reach a settlement, his work on which earned him a spot on Law360’s list of Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 19, 2016

    Product Liability MVP: Simmons Hanly Conroy's Jayne Conroy

    Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy turned a setback in a major medical device litigation into a pair of bellwether victories this year, landing her among Law360's 2016 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 16, 2016

    Product Liability MVP: Kirkland & Ellis' Mike Brock

    Trial veteran Robert C. "Mike" Brock of Kirkland & Ellis LLP heads up the team representing General Motors in the ignition switch defect bellwether trials, the first of which came to an unusual and swift end earlier this year and landed him a place on Law360’s Product Liability MVPs of 2016.

  • November 22, 2016

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360’s 2016 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals. Here is a list of this year's Law360 MVPs.

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