Our results speak for themselves. Together, we have successfully tried cases to juries and judges across the country, from Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco to New York, Washington, Philadelphia, and Boston—and many places in between (including St. Louis, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Omaha). We have litigated multiple bet-the-company cases and proven that we can deliver results to our clients before, during, and after trial.

Some of our most significant victories since our founding include:

• Winning an outright defense verdict in a multi-state class action trial involving One A Day multivitamins. Plaintiffs alleged that Bayer made false, misleading, and deceptive statements about One A Day. Before trial, Wilkinson Stekloff’s motions practice reduced the potential damages by hundreds of millions of dollars. At trial, based on devastating cross-examinations by Wilkinson Stekloff’s attorneys, the defense rested without calling a single witness. After just over an hour of deliberation, the jury returned a complete defense verdict.
• Winning five bellwether trials in mass tort proceedings involving the blood thinner Xarelto. Plaintiffs claimed that our client, Bayer, had failed to provide adequate warnings to doctors about risks associated with Xarelto. In the first two federal trials in New Orleans, Wilkinson Stekloff secured unanimous defense verdicts within two hours of closing arguments. Then, in the first three state-court trials in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Wilkinson Stekloff secured two defense verdicts and a judgment notwithstanding an adverse verdict in a third case.
• Winning a defense jury verdict for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in a defamation suit brought in the Los Angeles Superior Court by former University of Southern California (USC) assistant football coach Todd McNair.
• Winning a complete defense verdict for Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris unit in a three-week jury trial in St. Louis, just weeks after the firm’s founding. Plaintiffs sought more than $1.5 billion in compensatory and punitive damages based on claims that the company had deceived smokers with the marketing of Marlboro Lights. The jury issued a complete defense verdict after deliberating for less than an hour.
• Winning summary judgment for Georgia Pacific LLC in an antitrust class action lawsuit involving over $10 billion in claimed damages. The court’s decision came just one day after it had preliminarily approved a settlement in which Georgia Pacific’s co-defendants agreed to pay over $350 million.
• Serving as lead counsel for the NCAA at summary judgment and trial in a challenge by certain current and former NCAA college football and basketball student athletes to NCAA rules limiting the level of athletics-based financial aid and benefits that student athletes may receive. Plaintiffs set out to fundamentally change college athletics in America by attacking their defining characteristic—that student athletes are amateurs—making this one of the most important cases in the NCAA’s history. After a three-week bench trial, the district court enjoined certain limitations on benefits that student-athletes may receive, but reaffirmed the procompetitive value of the NCAA’s rules and rejected Plaintiffs’ broader-ranging efforts to transform college athletics.
• Securing a complete dismissal of a securities fraud class action in the Eastern District of Virginia for MAXIMUS Inc., before any discovery was taken, and successfully defending that dismissal on appeal.
• Obtaining the unprecedented dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against the economic development arms of the Habematolel Pomo Tribe of Upper Lake. The Bureau withdrew its case in early 2018 rather than respond to Wilkinson Stekloff’s motion to dismiss.
• Successfully arguing for the court to dismiss Plaintiffs’ biggest win—a $250 million award for false designation—in Zenimax Media et al. v. Oculus VR. Wilkinson Stekloff represented all Defendants in this case, including Oculus VR and its parent company Facebook. Wilkinson Stekloff prevailed on most of the claims at trial, with Plaintiffs receiving only a small fraction of the damages they sought. In addition to reducing the damages further based on Wilkinson Stekloff's post-trial arguments, the court denied Plaintiffs’ motion to enjoin the use of disputed technology in the Oculus Rift headset—allowing Oculus VR to market and sell its products without restriction—and granted Defendants’ motion for sanctions.

Because we believe we can litigate any case, anytime, anywhere, we do not have practice groups or limitations on the types of cases we can handle. But we have developed considerable expertise in the areas below: