Veteran trial lawyer Diane Sullivan has taken her practice from Dechert to Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She officially joined Weil on Feb. 13 along with fellow former Dechert litigator Kathleen O’Connor. Ms. Sullivan, who jumped to Dechert in 2001 from Lowenstein Sandler, led a Dechert team that last year secured a complete defense verdict for Philip Morris in a suit brought by the city of St. Louis and a group of hospitals seeking $455 million plus punitive damages for treating tobacco-related illnesses. A second notable win came on behalf of Astra-Zeneca in the first product liability case to go to trial over the company’s popular Seroquel antipsychotic medicine.
Ms. O’Connor and Ms. Sullivan started working together when Ms. Sullivan led Merck, where Ms. O’Connor worked as in-house counsel, in a 2005 trial victory in blockbuster litigation over pain-relief medication Vioxx. Ms. O’Connor joined Dechert as a partner the following year.
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