The Litigator of the Week award goes to a trio of lawyers: Loren Brown at DLA Piper;  Michael Imbroscio at Covington & Burling and Joseph Petrosinelli at Williams & Connolly.

They teamed up on behalf of Eli Lilly & Co. and Pfizer, which faced about 1,200 suits from men who claimed that taking Viagra or Cialis caused them to develop the deadly skin cancer melanoma. 

The three lawyers joined forces to score a home run Daubert ruling in the Northern District of California that guts the plaintiffs' case. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg on Jan. 13 rejected the plaintiffs' expert testimony, ruling that "there simply is no interpretation by anyone other than plaintiffs experts that supports general causation."