Former federal prosecutor Beth Wilkinson of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison nailed a series of high-stakes victories for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. over the past two years. Brought in just before trial in a multibillion-dollar securities class action over alleged false drug disclosures, Wilkinson first knocked out the plaintiffs’ economic expert and then, on a motion for summary judgment, the suit itself. Winning defense verdicts in the first two Zoloft birth defect suits to go to trial, she narrowed the odds for plaintiffs in the more than 1,000 cases remaining.
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