You may know about our victory in the Exxon Valdez trial, where we won the largest punitive damage award to date in the history of American law. That's just one example of the high-profile, high-stakes litigation handled by Faegre & Benson. Here's a sample of other litigation we've managed in areas like product liability, employment, antitrust, and others. For more information, check out the resumes of our
practice groups.
- Trial counsel for Wyeth in trade secret litigation resulting in a sweeping permanent injunction and front page coverage in The National Law Journal.
- Trial counsel for Cargill subsidiary Sunny Fresh Foods in a patent dispute resulting in zero damages (opposing side had sought $170 million).
- National counsel for Novartis in defeating multiple class action litigation involving the drug Ritalin.
- National coordinating counsel for 3M in all litigation over breast implants.
- Lead counsel for the University of Minnesota in patent litigation that resulted in the third highest recovery ever in a patent infringement case.
- Lead counsel in the nation's first class action employment litigation involving claims of hostile work environment.
- Primary litigation counsel for companies like DuPont and UPS in a multi-state region.
- Lead counsel for DuPont in national antitrust actions against Monsanto.
- Achieved unanimous victory in United States Supreme Court in affordable housing case in 2002.
- Trial counsel for Koch Industries in obtaining a successful jury verdict in a high-profile whistleblower suit. (One of the "Defense Verdicts of the Year" in 2000 in the National Law Journal).
- Appellate representative in a major insider trading case before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
- Prompt negotiation of class settlement in a salmonella food contamination case (the legal work by Faegre & Benson was profiled in a cover story in Corporate Legal Times).
- Counsel for American Home Products Corporation in litigation involving fen-phen and Norplant.
- Representing the nation's largest insurance company in asserting claims and defending counterclaims totaling more than $50 million, arising out of the construction of a $290 million facility in Illinois.
- Winning in the United States Supreme Court the leading case endorsing application of the "Absolute Priority Rule" in bankruptcy proceedings.