Skadden Successfully Recruits John Beisner, Stephen Harburg, and Jessica Davidson Miller of O’Melveny

According to this press release from Skadden, John Beisner, Stephen Harburg , and Jessica Davidson Miller will leave O’Melveny and join Skadden’s Washington, D.C. office.  John Beisner, chair of O’ Melveny’s Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practice, represented Merck in the Vioxx litigation and is a preeminent defense mass tort practitioner.  Most remarkable is the prospect in one firm of both John Beisner and Sheila Birnbaum, founder of Skadden’s mass torts department and herself frequently named as the leading defense products liability lawyer.  As someone who worked in New York at Skadden’s mass torts department myself while in practice, I would also mention Skadden’s depth of talent, including partners Raoul Kennedy, Jeffrey Lichtman, Russell Jackson, Mark Cheffo, and Steven Napolitano.  Quite a group indeed.

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