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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.
  • November 08, 2013

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Top Guns From 58 Firms

    Beginning this week, Law360 will profile the elite law firm partners whose exemplary work on critical litigation, mammoth deals and first-of-their-kind global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.

  • December 13, 2012

    Product Liability MVP: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker

    Jones Day partner Stephanie Parker’s success in defending R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in the first of nearly 4,500 federal cases that sprang out of the Florida Supreme Court’s Engle decision has earned her a spot on Law360's list of Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 12, 2012

    Product Liability MVP: O'Melveny's Charles Lifland

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner Charles Lifland scored recent appellate victories for Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co. Inc. allowing the drug companies to avoid paying millions in punitive damages and dodge costly failure-to-warn claims, securing himself a spot among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 11, 2012

    Product Liability MVP: Covington's Michael Imbroscio

    Covington & Burling LLP partner Michael Imbroscio was the brains behind an unprecedented decision to rescind mass tort status for litigation over Hoffman-La Roche Inc.'s acne treatment Accutane as well as a key ruling backing Roche's warnings about the drug, earning him a place among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 10, 2012

    Product Liability MVP: Kaye Scholer's James Herschlein

    Kaye Scholer LLP’s James Herschlein has become a go-to litigator for resolving major product liability suits in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, and recent victories on behalf of companies such as Pfizer Inc. have earned him a place as one of Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 07, 2012

    Product Liability MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Hilarie Bass

    Greenberg Traurig LLP's Hilarie Bass convinced not just one court that it possessed jurisdiction over a Chinese manufacturer in the massive litigation over defective drywall, but two — groundbreaking feats that earned her a place among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 30, 2012

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Top Guns From 52 Firms

    Over the next several weeks, Law360 will profile the winners of this year's MVP awards honoring attorneys whose achievements in major litigation or transactions have set a new standard for accomplishment in corporate law.

  • December 19, 2011

    Product Liability MVP: King & Spalding's Chilton Varner

    In October, King & Spalding LLP's Chilton Davis Varner won her second pharma liability trial in less than a year when she secured a victory for Merck & Co. in a plaintiffs' choice bellwether case in Fosamax multidistrict litigation, earning her a spot among Law360's product liability MVPs.

  • December 16, 2011

    Product Liability MVP: Dechert's Diane Sullivan

    Using her ability to interestingly and effectively convey the facts of high-stakes tort disputes to juries, Diane Sullivan of Dechert LLP helped Philip Morris USA Inc. beat a group of hospitals' $455 million dollar suit over the costs of treating uninsured smokers, earning her a place among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 15, 2011

    Product Liability MVP: Kirkland's Andrew McGaan

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Andrew McGaan has won over juries in emotionally charged cases against tobacco giants, winning wrongful death disputes and a 12-year battle waged by Missouri hospitals, earning him a place among Law360's Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 14, 2011

    Product Liability MVP: Reed Smith's Patrick Bradley

    Reed Smith LLP's Patrick E. Bradley earned his place among Law360's Product Liability MVPs by delivering 2011 courtroom victories for Cirrus Aircraft in manufacturing defect suits stemming from fatal plane crashes — including litigation over the high-profile wreck that killed former New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle.

  • December 13, 2011

    Product Liability MVP: Skadden's John Beisner

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's John Beisner convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge to a settlement program he created resolving thousands of personal injury claims against Merck & Co. Inc. in multidistrict litigation over the painkiller Vioxx, one of several victories that earned him a spot among Law360's product liability MVPs.

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