Whether it’s a dispute over defective breast implants, asbestos contamination or hormone replacement therapy, the “Queen of Toxic Torts,” Sheila Birnbaum, reigns supreme in product liability defense.

Over the course of a half-century career in which she built the mass torts practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom into an international powerhouse, Birnbaum has garnered a reputation with her colleagues, clients and adversaries as a one-of-a-kind talent with uncanny ability, agility, acumen and integrity.