• Vast Trial Experience – Our senior litigators, which include six members of the American College of Trial Lawyers, have successfully tried hundreds of jury and bench trials.
• Regulatory and Industry Expertise – We have a leg up on our competition because of our ability to staff litigation matters with multi-disciplinary teams that take advantage of the firm’s market-leading regulatory practices and our deep expertise in the special characteristics and challenges of particular industries.
• Global Reach – Our litigators appear before national and international courts in Europe, state and federal courts and enforcement agencies throughout the US, and arbitral tribunals throughout the world; we also counsel our clients in cross-border disputes involving Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas, utilizing a trusted team of foreign lawyers and our own expert team of former diplomats and advisers.
• Savvy Case Management With a Focus on Value – We work in close collaboration with our clients to manage litigation efficiently; reduce and make costs more predictable through alternative fee arrangements; and find creative ways to resolve cases early.
• Broad Resources – Our litigation teams are strengthened by our extensive e-discovery capabilities, our technological resources for managing information and preparing trial exhibits, and our ability to collaborate efficiently across firm offices.

Representative Matters

• BP selected Covington’s Mike Brock to serve as lead trial counsel in the high-stakes Deepwater Horizon oil spill trial, in which thousands of private-party plaintiffs, the United States, the states of Louisiana and Alabama, and three other companies in addition to BP, have squared off in a trial to allocate responsibility for the largest environmental disaster in US history.
• Covington successfully defended the former CEO of IndyMac in an SEC securities fraud case and FDIC lawsuit involving one of the most high-profile bank failures of the recent financial crisis. Covington’s dismantling of the SEC’s enforcement action and favorable settlement of the FDIC case prompted AmLaw Litigation Daily to name our partner Jean Veta “Litigator of the Week.”
• Covington represented Merck, Wal-Mart, CVS Caremark, and Walgreen at trial before the International Trade Commission in a patent infringement suit seeking to exclude from the US market Merck's blockbuster NuvaRing contraceptive product, preserving more than one-half billion dollars in annual sales.
• Exxon Mobil turned to Covington to pursue a multi-billion dollar ICSID arbitration against Venezuela arising out of the uncompensated expropriation of its subsidiaries’ entire investments in Venezuela.
• Covington was the lead firm representing GlaxoSmithKline in successfully resolving one of the largest criminal and civil investigations involving pharmaceutical industry marketing practices.

Accolades

• National Law Journal, "Washington Litigation Department of the Year" (2013)
• The American Lawyer
  • Litigation Department of the Year Finalist (2008), Honorable Mention (2010)
• Gar 30, International Arbitration (2013)
• Chambers USA
  • Recognition of 35 litigators and 16 litigation practice groups (2012)
• Chambers Global, EU, UK and Latin America
  • Recognition of 5 attorneys in 2 practice areas (2012)
• Legal 500 US
  • Recognition of 50 litigators and 14 litigation practice groups (2012)
• Best Lawyers in America
  • Recognition of 46 litigators in 20 areas of law (2012)
• National Law Journal’s “Appellate Hot List” (2008-2009; 2011-2012)
• Chambers USA Award for Excellence, Insurance (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012)
• Am Law Litigation Daily recognized Jean Veta as "Litigator of the Week" (12/20/2012).
• California Lawyer recognized Robert Haslam as "Attorney of the Year” (2012).