Securing bellwether victories in the largest multidistrict litigation in U.S. history. Spearheading a successful defense (via Zoom) in the first multidefendant opioid trial in the country to reach a verdict. Fighting the world’s largest beer manufacturer over the definition of “beer”—and winning.

Those are the kinds of weighty, high-profile and far-reaching achievements one might expect from the litigation department at the world’s most profitable law firm. Indeed, “shock and awe” and “thunder-on-the-mountain” are some of the ways firm leaders have previously depicted Kirkland & Ellis’ style and results.