Our Litigator of the Week is Sullivan & Cromwell’s Julia Jordan, who co-heads the firm’s labor and employment group, for her win on behalf of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

In a case with no direct precedent, Jordan persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to uphold the dismissal with prejudice of a putative class action that could have cost the automaker hundreds of millions of dollars.