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500Paul Stritmatter Stritmatter Kessler (Seattle) A leading plaintiff lawyerfor consumers in the Northwest, he has reached dozens of multimillion-dollar verdictsand settlements, including, most recently, for a family whose child contractedE-coli at a daycare center.Brendan Sullivan Williams & Connolly (Washington, dc) One of the mostesteemed lawyers of this generation has elevated his profile even more (if that’spossible) with News Corp. hiring him to sort out its legal troubles from the phonehackingand bribery scandal.Diane Sullivan Weil gotshal (Princeton, N.J.) She’s the mass tort defenselawyer du jour, winning a defense verdict for Philip Morris in a $455M lawsuitbrought by 37 St. Louis hospitals for the cost of treating indigent patients withtobacco-related illnesses.Steve Susman Susman Godfrey (Houston) Recognized as one of the mostsuccessful plaintiff’s attorneys of all time, Susman and his firm specialize in betthe-ranchcommercial litigation.R. Jay Tabor Weil Gotshal (Dallas) The longtime advisor to Kinder Morganpulled off the deal of the year with its $37.8B acquisition of El Paso Corp. and subsequenttransactions including a $7B sale of assets.Ariana Tadler Milberg (New York) There’s always room for innovation.Tadler, a talented securities litigator, created an E-Discovery practice with a team oflawyers and technologists armed with the necessary hardware and software to providea solid and reliable service.John Tarantino Adler Pollock (Providence, R.I.) Mr. Rhode Island has thetrust of the state’s corporate and government elite, having successfully defendedAtlantic Richfield Co. in landmark lead paint litigation and is now battling the state’sunions on behalf of the Governor, state treasurer and Employees’ Retirement fund todefend against constitutional challenges to the state pension system.Paul Taskier Dickstein Shapiro (Washington, dc) Two years after his $431MIP jury verdict for Saffran against Boston Scientific, he followed it up with a $482Mvictory for Saffran vs. Johnson & Johnson.G. Irvin Terrell Baker Botts (Houston) This top trial lawyer just keeps gettingbetter; he advised George W. Bush in the presidential election litigation and,more recently, represented Texas Republicans in redistricting litigation, as well asASARCO in its $5B victory against Americas Mining and subsequent successfulemergence from bankruptcy and purchase by Grupo Mexico.I s s u e 13 175 l a w d r a g o n . c o m