For Law360’s top product liability defense teams, consumer fraud suits, forum shopping, suits claiming injuries to children and infants, and populist outrage aimed at high-powered companies turned out to be the biggest challenges of 2009.

Five firms — Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Dechert LLP, Reed Smith LLP, Bowman & Brooke LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP — stood out for their work on some of the most high-profile liability cases of the year.

Reed Smith LLP

Reed Smith's product liability attorneys made Law360’s list for representing St. Jude Medical Inc. — with co-counsel Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson PA — in a case in which a district court judge opted not to certify a class of 11,000 plaintiffs who received allegedly defective Silzone heart valves.

Download the .PDF to learn more!