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Product Liability & Mass Torts
Major multinational companies trust Winston to defend their products and reputations in high-profile, high-stakes product liability and mass tort claims. Our Product Liability & Mass Torts Practice is one of the industry’s most seasoned, with a deep bench of experienced lawyers and a unique combination of extensive trial experience and expansive technical knowledge.
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Winston is a national leader in protecting the reputations of fellow professional services firms. We help major law firms, accounting firms, consulting firms, architects, engineers, and other professional services organizations manage risk, and we provide advice in connection with legal issues brought on by increased regulatory and ESG scrutiny, client and economic pressures brought on by the pandemic, a changing workforce, and technology innovation.
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Securities, M&A & Corporate Governance Litigation
In today’s market, litigators with experience in securities, corporate governance, and M&A-related (collectively, “securities litigation”) matters need to leverage their broad experience to serve as both advocate and as counsel and strategist, focused on helping clients to overcome not just a legal issue but a collective business problem. Given the frequent interplay between things such as corporate-control transactions, public offerings, activist shareholders, the use of complex derivatives and other financial instruments, bad news impacting stock performance, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and insurance coverage, strategic and tactical litigation decisions can have a wide-ranging impact on the success of a given transaction, as well as on companies, their boards, senior management, and advisors.
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Experience
|March 26, 2013
Monsanto Co. v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. $1B Jury Verdict
A team led by George Lombardi obtained a $1 billion verdict—the third-largest U.S. jury verdict in 2012 and, at the time, the fifth-largest patent jury verdict in history—in favor of Monsanto Company against principal competitor DuPont Company. The case involved complex patent, antitrust, and contract issues and was a titanic battle between the two leading plant biotech companies. Monsanto’s scientists invented and patented Roundup Ready®, a biotech gene that allows corn and soybean plants to resist the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup®). Monsanto’s patented technology has been overwhelmingly adopted by American growers and is present in most of the soybeans and corn plants grown in this country. Monsanto also widely licensed its patented technology to competitors, including DuPont. However, the license restricted DuPont from combining alternative glyphosate-resistant genes with Roundup Ready®. When DuPont disregarded this contractual restriction, Monsanto sued for breach and patent infringement. DuPont, in turn, claimed Monsanto’s patent was invalid and filed a multi-count counterclaim under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. On January 15, 2010, the court granted partial summary judgment in Monsanto’s favor on its breach-of-contract claim, finding that the license did not allow DuPont to combine Monsanto’s technology with its own. Winston tried the patent case before a St. Louis jury in July 2012, with George Lombardi acting as lead trial counsel in the three-week trial. On August 1, 2012, the jury took less than an hour to return a verdict for Monsanto on all counts. The jury found that DuPont willfully infringed Monsanto’s valid patent and awarded Monsanto $1 billion in damages. Based on this tremendous result, George was named AmLaw's “Litigator of the Week.” The case was also featured in The American Lawyer’s Litigation Supplement. On March 26, 2013, DuPont and Monsanto announced a series of technology licensing agreements, including a multi-year, royalty-bearing license for Monsanto’s next-generation soybean technologies in the U.S. and Canada, a deal valued at US$1.75 billion minimum. In connection with the agreement, both companies agreed to dismiss antitrust and patent claims against each other.
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News
|March 19, 2026
|7 Min Read
Law Firms: The Next Frontier for Private Equity in Professional Services?
Law firms are one of the last major professional services segments without meaningful private equity (PE) penetration. The core investment attributes are familiar:
Pro Bono In Action
|November 24, 2025
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Winston Safeguards the Medical Privacy Rights of Transgender Teens in Texas
A multi-office Winston team successfully opposed the Texas Attorney General’s unprecedented attempt to use nonparty civil discovery to secure the private medical records of 30+ transgender teenagers.
Recognitions
|September 4, 2025
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Winston Ranks No. 6 on the 2025 American Lawyer Midlevel Associate Survey
Winston & Strawn earned a top spot on the 2025 AmLaw Midlevel Associate Survey. In the regional rankings, our Chicago office took the No. 1 spot, our New York office secured the No. 3 spot; and in Dallas we came in at No. 6.
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Winston & Strawn’s New York office opened in 1989 and has since grown to become the firm’s second-largest location, with 225+ lawyers distributed across 16 practice areas. Based in the iconic MetLife Building above Grand Central Station in Midtown Manhattan, our New York lawyers represent 80+ Fortune 500 companies from the city’s business epicenter. Our New York attorneys are tenacious and insightful, and they reflect the rich tapestry of New York City, with lawyers from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives working closely to support each other's success and achieve their clients' goals. Several of our firmwide employee networks are chaired by New York attorneys. Our New York office’s welcoming and collaborative atmosphere can be seen through numerous office-wide events, including volunteer opportunities, gatherings to connect over food and drinks, wellness event pop-ups, and annual entry in the NYC Lawyers Basketball League. Creating a connected and supportive setting for attorneys and business professionals fosters camaraderie and encourages all of us to work harder for one another and our clients.