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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 03, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Shook Hardy's William Geraghty

    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.

  • December 02, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Robins Kaplan's Tara Sutton

    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.

  • December 02, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Paul Weiss' Beth Wilkinson

    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.

  • December 01, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Sheila Birnbaum

    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.

  • November 25, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Motley Rice's Joseph Rice

    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.

  • November 24, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker

    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.

  • November 23, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Faegre Baker Daniels' Joe Price

    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.

  • November 20, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Covington's Phyllis Jones

    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.

  • November 19, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Bowman & Brooke's Joel Smith

    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.

  • November 18, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Boies Schiller's Nicholas Gravante

    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.

  • November 06, 2015

    Law360's Super MVPs In A Class Of Their Own

    Five exceptional attorneys stand out from the pack by being selected for the Law360 MVP distinction for five straight years.

  • November 06, 2015

    5 Firms Lead The Pack With MVP Wins

    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.

  • November 06, 2015

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Aces From 86 Firms

    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.

  • November 26, 2014

    Product Liability MVP: King & Spalding's Chilton Davis Varner

    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.

  • November 25, 2014

    Product Liability MVP: Kaye Scholer's Pamela Yates

    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.

  • November 24, 2014

    Product Liability MVP: Covington & Burling's Paul Schmidt

    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.

  • November 21, 2014

    Product Liability MVP: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker

    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.

  • November 20, 2014

    Product Liability MVP: Sidley Austin's Sherry Knutson

    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.

  • November 19, 2014

    Product Liability MVP: Mayer Brown's Hank Bullock

    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.

  • November 18, 2014

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Aces From 78 Firms

    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.

  • November 21, 2013

    Product Liability MVP: Kaye Scholer's Jeffrey Wagner

    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.

  • November 20, 2013

    Product Liability MVP: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker

    As R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.’s top gun in nearly 1,200 Engle progeny cases, Jones Day’s Stephanie Parker has spent the last year scoring a string of low or complete defense verdicts in high-profile tobacco liability trials, earning her a spot among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 19, 2013

    Product Liability MVP: Hollingsworth's Eric Lasker

    Within a one-month span, Hollingsworth LLP partner Eric Lasker won two separate rulings tossing thousands of Ecuadorean plaintiffs' claims against DynCorp. International Inc. over an herbicide that allegedly caused personal injuries and damaged their property, an accomplishment that landed him among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 18, 2013

    Product Liability MVP: Bowman And Brooke's Vincent Galvin

    Bowman and Brooke LLP executive managing partner Vincent Galvin leveraged his ability to turn complicated automotive jargon into an aggressive and effective defense strategy, to help steer Toyota Motor Corp. to victory in the first bellwether trial in unintended acceleration litigation against the company, earning him a spot among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 15, 2013

    Product Liability MVP: Bowman And Brooke's Paul Cereghini

    Paul Cereghini's nearly 30 years of experience defending manufacturers of vehicles big and small, off-road and on, paid off for a trio of the world's biggest carmakers in 2013 with resounding trial victories in three states, earning the Bowman and Brooke LLP partner a spot among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

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