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500500Roberta Pichini Feldman Shepherd (Philadelphia) Successfully prosecutingproduct liability actions is her game, one of particular note being a suit against amajor manufacturer of children’s cribs that uncovered a defect found to havecaused the strangulation of many babies.Tom Pirtle Laminack Pirtle (Houston) Pirtle won $94.3M for Wellogix in amisappropriation of trade secrets case against Accenture.Aaron Podhurst Podhurst Orseck (Miami) The gentleman giant of Florida’splaintiffs’ bar is taking on banks for their financial abuse of consumers, recentlysecuring a $410M settlement in a class-action lawsuit of more than 13 million Bankof America customers who had debit card overdrafts during the past decade.Jonathan Polkes Weil Gotshal (New York) Polkes is on speed dial forexecutives facing the toughest securities litigation and investigations, turning backan array of actions stemming from Tishman Speyer’s acquisition of Archstone andprotecting Willis Group from the Stanford Financial claims.Glenn Pomerantz Munger Tolles (Los Angeles) A top media and entertainmentlitigator, Pomerantz spent part of 2011 leading the Justice DepartmentAntitrust Division’s take-down of the AT&T and T-mobile merger.Richard Posner 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Chicago) The onlyproblem with the description of Posner as “probaby America’s greatest living jurist”is the word probably.Joseph Power Power Rogers & Smith (Chicago) Among the best plaintifffirms in Illinois, his firm eclipsed $300M in recoveries in 2011.James Pratt III Hare Wynn (Birmingham, Ala.) A distinguished trial lawyerin one of Alabama’s most elite firms, he added to his resume of outstanding resultsin car and aviation cases - including one of the largest wrongful death verdicts instate history - by becoming president of the State Bar, where he promptly mediateda long drawn-out battle over Jefferson County’s occupational tax.William Price Quinn Emanuel (Los Angeles) Price successfully defendedMicron Technology in a bet-the-company antitrust case involving random accessmemory chips during a three month jury trial against Rambus.Gilbert Purcell Brayton Purcell (Novato, Calif.) Purcell won a $41M claimfor a mesothelioma victim against Phillip Morris, in which the California SupremeCourt ruled earlier diagnosis of smoking-related illness did not trigger statute oflimitiations for later discovered lung disease.Peggy Ann Quince Florida Supreme Court (Tallahassee, Fla.) Anextraordinary role model, Quince was raised by her father, a civilian employee ofthe Navy, attended segregated schools and ascended to the state’s highest court,where she has served as the state’s first African-American and female Chief Justice.L A W D R A G O N 156 I s s u e 13