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December 20, 2016
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.
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December 19, 2016
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.
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December 16, 2016
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.
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November 22, 2016
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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December 03, 2015
William Geraghty, a managing partner at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, has been the firm's tobacco trial ace in Florida, successfully defending Philip Morris USA Inc. in four back-to-back Engle progeny trials in the space of a year and earning a spot on Law360's 2015 list of product liability MVPs.
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December 02, 2015
When thousands of patients together bring claims against a medical device maker, it's atypical for them to be compensated within two years and promised payments for future complications. But that's the result Tara Sutton, head of the mass tort group at Robins Kaplan LLP, achieved for her clients in a $1.4 billion settlement over faulty hip implants, earning her a spot among Law360's 2015 Product Liability MVPs.
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December 02, 2015
Over the past eight months, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Beth Wilkinson secured victories for Pfizer in the first two trials over birth defects allegedly tied to the antidepressant Zoloft, landing her a slot among Law360's Product Liability MVPs for 2015.
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December 01, 2015
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Sheila Birnbaum slashed hundreds of suits against Pfizer in one fell swoop by eliminating a crucial expert from multidistrict litigation over birth defects linked Zoloft, just one of many achievements distinguishing her as one of Law360's Product Liability MVPs for 2015.
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November 25, 2015
Motley Rice LLC co-founder Joseph Rice's long reputation for creative approaches to complex settlements at the negotiating table, including his roles in reaching historic settlements with BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, landed him a spot on Law360's list of Product Liability MVPs for 2015.
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November 24, 2015
Under Jones Day attorney Stephanie Parker’s guidance, R.J. Reynolds this year closed out nearly every remaining federal Engle progeny case in Florida and obtained a crucial win at the Eleventh Circuit, accomplishments that land its defense leader among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs for the fourth straight year.
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November 23, 2015
Faegre Baker Daniels’ Joe Price is a veteran of mass torts litigation that took wing in the 1970s and his recent key victories for device maker Zimmer Inc. in the first bellwether trials over its allegedly defective Durom Cup hip replacement device have put him among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.
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November 20, 2015
Covington & Burling LLP partner Phyllis Jones achieved an impressive hat trick earlier this year by snagging victories in three separate trials held during the course of one month in sprawling litigation over Eli Lilly & Co.'s alleged concealment of the withdrawal risks of its antidepressant Cymbalta, earning her a place among Law360's Product Liability MVPs for 2015.
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November 19, 2015
Joel Smith, managing partner at Bowman & Brooke LLP, has been a central figure in two of the biggest product liability crises to hit the automotive industry in recent history, including Honda's handling of the massive recall over faulty Takata air bags, placing him among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.
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November 18, 2015
Nicholas Gravante, a veteran defense attorney and general counsel at Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, had never taken on a false claims act case before his $663 million win in a defective guardrail suit — the largest award ever in a whistleblower action without intervention by the U.S. Department of Justice and an achievement cementing his place among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.
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November 06, 2015
Five exceptional attorneys stand out from the pack by being selected for the Law360 MVP distinction for five straight years.
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November 06, 2015
Five elite law firms have racked up more than 20 Law360 MVP wins each over the past five years, outshining their competitors with their accomplishments in complex litigation and transactions.
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November 06, 2015
This week, Law360 will begin profiling those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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November 26, 2014
When Merck & Co. Inc. was facing more than 800 cases in multidistrict litigation over its osteoporosis drug Fosamax, it enlisted King & Spalding LLP’s veteran trial attorney Chilton Davis Varner, whose work securing several important victories for the company helped land her a spot among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.
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November 25, 2014
Kaye Scholer LLP partner Pamela Yates helped discredit the testimony of a key plaintiffs’ expert in multidistrict litigation alleging Pfizer Inc.’s Zoloft antidepressant causes birth defects and convinced a jury that Philip Morris USA Inc. wasn’t at fault for the death of a longtime smoker, earning her place among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.
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November 24, 2014
Covington & Burling LLP partner Paul Schmidt spent a busy year racking up trial and appellate wins for Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. in lawsuits over the alleged risks of gastrointestinal injury tied to the acne drug Accutane, earning him a spot among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.
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November 21, 2014
Jones Day's Stephanie Parker has been R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.’s go-to attorney since she began trying cases for it 15 years ago, and as its lead defense counsel, she has helped it win cases even in the post-Engle litigation landscape, including the first federal dispute involving a living smoker, landing her among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.
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November 20, 2014
Drawing on her knack for simplifying complicated science and regulatory jargon, Sherry Knutson of Sidley Austin LLP helped Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. escape liability in the first jury trial among thousands of Illinois lawsuits blaming the company’s diabetes drug Actos for causing bladder cancer, earning her a spot among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.
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November 19, 2014
Mayer Brown LLP’s Henninger "Hank" Bullock had a big summer, with a victory in the Sixth Circuit protecting Eli Lilly & Co. from multidistrict litigation over injuries allegedly caused by generic painkillers and a win at the Iowa Supreme Court that cleared Schwarz Pharma Inc. of injury claims stemming from generic versions of a nausea medication, earning him a spot as one of Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.
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November 18, 2014
Beginning this week, Law360 will profile those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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November 21, 2013
Jeffrey Wagner of Kaye Scholer LLP built on a long history with Philip Morris USA Inc. in the last year by overcoming hostile California laws to dismantle a nine-figure smokers' class action at the intersection of personal injury and consumer fraud, earning an spot on Law360's Product Liability MVPs.