An Absolutely Stacked Week of Litigator of the Week Runners-up and Shout Outs
Topping the list of runners-up is the trial team that scored a defense win for Monsanto in a Roundup trial in Los Angeles.
October 08, 2021 at 07:25 AM
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Our first runner-up this week is a team that brought home a rare defense win for Monsanto in a trial bringing claims that its Roundup herbicide causes cancer. A Los Angeles jury this week found Roundup was not a "substantial factor" in causing 10-year-old Ezra Clark to suffer from an aggressive form of cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma. Brian Stekloff, co-founder of Wilkinson Stekloff, served as lead trial counsel alongside Covington & Burling partner Jennifer Saulino and Wilkinson Stekloff associate Cali Cope-Kasten. Covington partner Michael Imbroscio, Wilkinson Stekloff partner Kieran Gostin and Winston & Strawn partner Michael Swartz all advised on trial strategy and motions practice
Our next runners-up are the plaintiffs lawyers who landed an $8.2 million compensatory damages verdict in the fourth bellwether trial in the 3M Combat Arms Earplugs Products Liability on behalf of plaintiff Brandon Adkins. Adkins' trial counsel included Jennifer Hoekstra of Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz; Adam Wolfson and Matthew Hosen of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; Michael Sacchet of Ciresi Conlin, and Robert Cowan of Bailey Cowan Heckaman. They were up against members of the Kirkland & Ellis trial team that took home Litigator of the Week honors for winning a defense verdict in the second bellwether trial of the MDL.
Also landing a runner-up spot this week is Jason Mendro of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who this week won a defense ruling in the first case where the Delaware Court of Chancery addressed shareholder derivative claims arising from a cyberattack. Vice Chancellor Lori Will issued a 50-plus page opinion this week knocking out the derivative suit filed in the wake of the massive data breach Marriott International Inc. announced in November 2018. The Gibson Dunn team on the case was also led by partners Adam Offenhartz and Laura O'Boyle and included associates Jeffrey Rosenberg, Andrei Malikov and Erica Sollazzo Payne.
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Law Firms Mentioned
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Covington & Burling
- Winston & Strawn LLP
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Munger, Tolles & Olson
- Cooley
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC
- Latham & Watkins
- Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Jenner & Block
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
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Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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