Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s Hildy Sastre and Jon Strongman. They successfully defended Sanofi-Aventis in the first bellwether trial over the chemotherapy drug Taxotere. After a two-week trial, federal jury in New Orleans deliberated for less than two hours before siding with the defense across the board in the closely-watched test case.
A team of Dechert lawyers led by partners Dennis Hranitzky and Michael McGinley won a significant alter-ego decision in the Southern District of New York against the Republic of Moldova and gas distribution company AO Moldovagaz. Dechert’s client, Gater Assets, is seeking to enforce a judgment now worth $30 million that Lloyd’s Underwriters obtained against Moldovagaz and Moldova in 2000.
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