The team behind an $8 billion punitive damages verdict against Johnson & Johnson is looking to break a streak of Monsanto wins in litigation over the weedkiller Roundup next week.

Thomas Kline of Kline & Specter and Jason Itkin of Houston-based Arnold & Itkin will be working as co-lead plaintiffs counsel in what is the first Roundup suit to go to trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.