Dena Sharp has led some of the nation’s largest antitrust matters, taking on corporations that hit the pocketbooks of consumers, but an altogether different kind of harm took her to trial last year and persuaded jurors to award nearly $15 million to her clients.

The first-of-its-kind verdict came in a case brought by three women and a couple who were among 400 families who lost 4,000 eggs and embryos when a cryogenic tank at Pacific Fertility Clinic in San Francisco failed in 2018. For Sharp, it was a “very difficult and sensitive situation.”