{"id":3942,"date":"2024-03-14T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2024-03-14T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:53:08","slug":"wilkinson-stekloff-honored-at-2024-benchmark-litigation-u-s-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/wilkinson-stekloff-honored-at-2024-benchmark-litigation-u-s-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkinson Stekloff Honored at 2024 Benchmark Litigation U.S. Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 13, 2024, Benchmark Litigation honored Wilkinson Stekloff at their <a href=\"https:\/\/benchmarklitigation.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Benchmark-Litigation-2024-US-awards-winners-and-photos\/Index\/9629\">12th annual U.S. Awards in New York City<\/a> in celebration of \u201cthe country\u2019s most distinguished litigators and their firms for their exemplary work over the past twelve months.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilkinson Stekloff was awarded \u201cTrial Firm of the Year\u201d for serving as lead trial counsel in several major litigations, which culminated in significant activity and favorable results within only a three-month span. During that period, the firm took on a litigation docket unlike any other, including representing Microsoft in the FTC\u2019s challenge to its proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Altria in a range of high-profile cases related to its $12.8 billion purchase of a minority interest in JUUL Labs, and a major chemical manufacturer in the first bellwether trial in the most significant PFAS products liability MDL in the country.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Wilkinson Stekloff received the \u201cImpact Case of the Year\u201d award, spotlighting the firm\u2019s work on the Microsoft matter \u2014 the second-largest merger trial in American history and the biggest involving a technology company. The go-to firm for clients who want to litigate cases with an eye toward trial rather than settlement, Wilkinson Stekloff has served as litigation counsel for Microsoft since the day after the acquisition was announced in January 2022. Led by Founding Partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/who-we-are\/beth-wilkinson\/\">Beth Wilkinson<\/a> and Partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/who-we-are\/rakesh-kilaru\/\">Rakesh Kilaru<\/a>, the firm\u2019s team positioned the case for a federal court victory on an unprecedented timetable, defeating the FTC\u2019s request for a preliminary injunction to stop the transaction after a five-day trial that began less than two weeks after the FTC filed its federal court complaint. The deal closed on October 13, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second year in a row that the firm has won the \u201cImpact Case of the Year\u201d award, which underscores how Wilkinson Stekloff continues to be at the forefront of today\u2019s most significant litigation moving the needle in the legal industry.&nbsp; The firm was a finalist in two other categories \u2014 \u201cBoutique Firm of the Year\u201d and \u201cD.C. Firm of the Year\u201d \u2014 and its attorneys were finalists in three other categories \u2014 Beth Wilkinson for \u201cTrial Lawyer of the Year\u201d and \u201cAntitrust Litigator of the Year\u201d and Founding Partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/brian-l-stekloff\/\">Brian Stekloff<\/a> for \u201cProduct Liability Litigator of the Year,\u201d making the 2024 awards a record-setting year for the firm in terms of the number of nominations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 13, 2024, Benchmark Litigation honored Wilkinson Stekloff at their 12th annual U.S. Awards in New York City in celebration of \u201cthe country\u2019s most distinguished litigators and their firms for their exemplary work over the past twelve months.\u201d&nbsp; Wilkinson Stekloff was awarded \u201cTrial Firm of the Year\u201d for serving as lead trial counsel in several major litigations, which culminated in significant activity and favorable results within only a three-month span. During that period, the firm took on a litigation docket unlike any other, including representing Microsoft in the FTC\u2019s challenge to its proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Altria in a range of high-profile cases related to its $12.8 billion purchase of a minority interest in JUUL Labs, and a major chemical manufacturer in the first bellwether trial in the most significant PFAS products liability MDL in the country.&nbsp; &nbsp; In addition, Wilkinson Stekloff received the \u201cImpact Case &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/wilkinson-stekloff-honored-at-2024-benchmark-litigation-u-s-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,37],"tags":[87,49,55,60,148],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wilkinson Stekloff Honored at 2024 Benchmark Litigation U.S. Awards - Wilkinson Stekloff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkinsonstekloff.com\/wilkinson-stekloff-honored-at-2024-benchmark-litigation-u-s-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wilkinson Stekloff Honored at 2024 Benchmark Litigation U.S. Awards - Wilkinson Stekloff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On March 13, 2024, Benchmark Litigation honored Wilkinson Stekloff at their 12th annual U.S. Awards in New York City in celebration of \u201cthe country\u2019s most distinguished litigators and their firms for their exemplary work over the past twelve months.\u201d&nbsp; Wilkinson Stekloff was awarded \u201cTrial Firm of the Year\u201d for serving as lead trial counsel in several major litigations, which culminated in significant activity and favorable results within only a three-month span. 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