Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

September 9, 2022, The AmLaw Litigation Daily

The AmLaw Litigation Daily included a Covington team as "Litigator of the Week: Runner Up," for her role as trial counsel who extended Monsanto's defense winning streak to five straight trials in Roundup cases. As runner-up the article stated, "The 24-day trial before St. Louis County Circuit Judge Brian May in Clayton, Missouri, was the first to involve multiple unrelated plaintiffs claiming that exposure to the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused them to develop forms of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Jurors found in favor of Monsanto on product defect and failure to warn claims with respect to all three plaintiffs."

As the piece stated, the Covington team included Greg Halperin, who handled daily motion practice, Daniel Auten, Sumner Truax, Ryan Partelow, and Maura Sokol.

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