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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Wendy West Feinstein has over 25 years’ experience litigating a wide range of complex matters in regulated industries, including life sciences, manufacturing and energy. A versatile trial lawyer, Wendy represents companies in high stakes and crisis litigation. Wendy is one of the Morgan Lewis team serving as national coordinating counsel for opioid manufacturers in the federal MDL and state opioid litigation. She serves as lead trial counsel for Teva Pharmaceuticals and affiliated entities in several trials in the national opioid litigation, including achieving the litigation’s first trial defense win. The trial victory came after more than four months of trial in the Orange County, California Superior Court, in which plaintiffs sought to recover $50 billion for public nuisance and violations of the state unfair competition and deceptive trade practices laws.Wendy and the team developed and implemented an aggressive trial defense strategy, obtaining key testimony from plaintiffs and defense witnesses and effectively arguing legal and evidentiary issues. The trial began during the global pandemic and was held entirely by Zoom, highlighting Wendy’s flexibility, creativity, and ability to lead a team and successfully try a large, complicated case under any circumstances and format. The opioid litigation brought in nearly every state by political subdivisions and state attorneys general with novel use of public nuisance claims, misrepresentation, false marketing, RICO, among others. Wendy and the team developed jurisdiction-specific approaches to defend each trial, resulting in several in-trial settlements in Ohio, Rhode Island, and San Francisco and pretrial in jurisdictions such as Nevada.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT