Our Litigator of the Week is Brent Wisner, a partner at Baum Hedlund in Los Angeles. He led the trial team for Alva and Alberta Pilliod, who alleged Monsanto Co.’s Roundup herbicide caused them to get non-Hodgkin lymphoma. On May 13, a state court jury in Oakland, California awarded each of them $1 billion in punitive damages, plus about $55 million in past and future economic and noneconomic damages.

It was the third verdict against Monsanto, which is now owned by Bayer, and the second for Wisner. In August, he won $289 million for former school groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson. San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos reduced the award to $78.5 million, which Monsanto has appealed.