Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partners Mike Lyle and Eric Lyttle. Their clients O’Brien’s Response Management and National Response Corp. faced potential exposure of $500 million in a case stemming from the cleanup of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Lyle and Lyttle won a declaratory judgment in Louisiana federal court, which held that their clients—who cleaned up the spilled oil—did not have to cover or indemnify BP’s losses from injury lawsuits filed years after the disaster.
