Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include Cozen O’Connor partner Michael de Leeuw, who had a pair of notable wins this week.

The commercial litigator secured dismissal with prejudice of a closely-watched securities-related defamation case in New York state court. And the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting en banc, affirmed the dismissal of antitrust claims against his client, AIG Property Casualty Company, in a large multi-district antitrust litigation.