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500Clarence Thomas U.S. Supreme Court (Washington, dc) Thomas remainssolidly on the High Court’s right, penning the Janus decision limiting liability insecurities fraud claims to the person or entity ultimately responsible for issuingmisstatements on its prospectus, shielding from liability the asset managementfund that advised it.James Thompson Hare Wynn (Birmingham, Ala.) A top trial lawyer in afirm flush with them, he helped win the $750M settlement for Arkansas rice farmersagainst Bayer Cropscience over crops contaminated by genetically-engineeredstrains of rice after winning a jury verdict of $48M, which reversed the Arkansasdamages cap.Jean Toal South Carolina Supreme Court (Columbia, S.C.) When she joinedSouth Carolina’s bar in 1968, fewer than 1 percent of its members were women;that number is now past 20 percent and she is the leader of its Supreme Court.Mary Ann Todd Munger Tolles (Los Angeles) She brokered WarrenBuffet’s $5B investment in Bank of America and Vivendi’s $1.9B purchase of EMI’sRecorded Music Division.Robert Townsend C r a v a t h ( N e w Y o r k ) This top dealmaker representedJohnson & Johnson in its $21.3B acquisition of Synthes, the largest dealin J&J’s history, and acted as counsel to Arch Chemicals in its $1.4B acquisitionby Lonza.David Tulchin Sullivan & Cromwell (New York) One of Sullivan’s top trialtalents saw the end of Microsoft’s 30 years of antitrust litigation, for which heserved as national lead counsel, while winning dismissal of an informant’s classaction against Boeing on Dreamliner planes.Jonathan Turley George Washington Law School (Washington, dc) Thebrilliant George Washington law professor provides a breath of fresh air to theoften inane legal punditocracy and pens one of its best blogs while advocating onbehalf of older prisoners and environmental protection.James Tyrrell Jr. Patton Boggs (New York) The Master of Disaster, whodefended Agent Orange and more recently the City of New York in toxic effects of9/11, has switched sides to take on Chevron on behalf of thousands of Ecuadoreanswho have suffered severe damage in what one expert has estimated could be a$113B case.Ted Ullyot Facebook (Palo Alto) The prior experience of the extraordinarilytalented lawyer who served as assistant counsel to President George W. Bush in theValerie Plame imbroglio and Chief of Staff in the Justice Department could come inhandy as the social network gets defriended of billions of dollars and faces waves ofshareholder litigation and business challenges.L A W D R A G O N 178 I s s u e 13 Photo by: Gregory Cowley