Litigators of the Week: Paul Schmidt and Michael Imbroscio of Covington & Burling

Litigators of the Week: Paul Schmidt and Michael Imbroscio of Covington & Burling

April 10, 2015, Am Law's The Litigation Daily

Covington's Paul Schmidt and Michael Imbroscio were named "Litigators of the Week" by AmLaw for their successful representation of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.:

"Not so long ago, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. faced a grim reality in sprawling litigation over the acne medication Accutane."

"In 2007, New Jersey judge Carol Higbee handed an edge to plaintiffs lawyers at Seeger Weiss, Weitz & Luxenberg and other plaintiffs firms, allowing their causation expert to testify about links between Accutane and forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Soon afterward, the plaintiffs were boasting a string of multi-million dollar verdicts."

"Fast-forward to today, and the picture is drastically different. With a big assist from Covington & Burling's Paul Schmidt and Michael Imbroscio, Roche now has the plaintiffs lawyers scrambling to salvage thousands of pending lawsuits in the Accutane mass tort."