Another Insanely Impressive Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Another Insanely Impressive Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

March 3, 2023, The AmLaw Litigation Daily

Covington landed a runner-up spot in AmLaw's Litigator of the Week column for obtaining a defense verdict for drug distributors in Georgia state court. As stated in the column, "In the first case brought by individual victims of the opioid epidemic to go to trial, plaintiffs sought more than $200 million. The trial, which started in late January, saw powerful testimony about the effects of opioid addiction on families. But it took jurors in Glynn County Superior Court about a day and a half of deliberations this week to reach a verdict that Cardinal Health Inc, McKesson Corp. and JM Smith Corp. were not liable under the state’s Drug Dealer Liability Act, which allows family members of drug abusers to sue drug dealers."

The Covington team represented McKesson and was led by Andrew Stanner and Emily Ullman.