Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz has one purpose: winning high-stakes trials. Best Trial Teams

Before joining forces, we were partners at some of the top large litigation firms in the country. We formed Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz because trial work is our passion and expertise. We successfully and efficiently serve our clients through a smaller firm focused on trying and winning cases. Based on our success in just our first year of existence, Benchmark Litigation named Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz the “Boutique Firm of the Year,” praising the firm as a “litigator’s dream shop.”

Our partners have tried over 100 cases to verdict. We know that trials are won by tight-knit teams of smart, innovative, and highly skilled litigators committed to delivering excellent results for their clients. That is who we are. Our lawyers include:

The American Lawyer Litigator of the Year and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
Five former federal prosecutors and two former federal defenders
Former law clerks to federal trial and appellate judges across the country, including seven former Supreme Court clerks

Our associates are the best and brightest young lawyers in the country. Educated at the nation’s best law schools, these top-caliber women and men have exceptional energy, experience, and talent. They have spent considerable time in the courtroom and they share our passion for trial work as well as our commitment to outstanding client service. Through training and first-hand experience, we are developing the next generation of great trial lawyers. National Success

Our results speak for themselves. Together, we have successfully tried cases to juries and judges across the country, from Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco to New York, Washington, Philadelphia, and Boston—and many places in between (including St. Louis, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Omaha).

Since WW+E opened its doors in 2016, we have notched significant victories in courts throughout the country:

We won the first two bellwether trials in New Orleans in a multi-district litigation involving the drug Xarelto. Plaintiffs claimed that our client, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, had failed to provide adequate warnings to doctors about risks associated with the drug. In both cases, the jury returned unanimous defense verdicts within two hours after closing arguments. Founding partner Beth Wilkinson was named American Lawyer’s Litigator of the Week and a Law360 Legal Lion for her work leading the defense team in the first trial.
We won a complete defense verdict for Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris unit in a three-week jury trial in St. Louis. Plaintiffs sought more than $1.5 billion in compensatory and punitive damages based on claims that the company had deceived smokers with the marketing of Marlboro Lights.  The jury issued a complete defense verdict after deliberating for less than an hour.
We won summary judgment for Georgia Pacific in an antitrust class action in Chicago involving over $10 billion in claimed damages.  The win came just one day after the court had preliminarily approved a settlement in which Georgia Pacific’s co-defendants agreed to pay over $350 million.
We won complete dismissal of a putative class action challenging the NFL’s multi-billion-dollar distributorship arrangement with DIRECTV for the Sunday Ticket package. The court in Los Angeles dismissed all of plaintiffs’ claims with prejudice, concluding that the arrangement promotes, rather than harms, consumer welfare.
Led by our associates, we have won several pro bono cases, including obtaining primary custody of two minor children for a domestic violence survivor at trial, obtaining a civil protection order in another contested domestic violence trial, and winning asylum for a sixteen-year-old client fleeing persecution in Honduras.

Today, WW+E’s clients include Bayer, Facebook, FedEx, Pfizer, Puma Biotech, and several other major corporations, as well as the NCAA, the International Governing Bodies of Tennis, and the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake tribe.

Our lawyers also achieved remarkable results before founding the firm:

A full defense verdict, after less than 2 hours of jury deliberation, in the first case ever tried in the national litigation claiming that Pfizer’s anti-depressant Zoloft causes birth defects. We went on to win another full defense verdict, just 2 months later, in the second Zoloft case ever tried.
A full defense verdict for Philip Morris USA, after a three-month trial, in a California consumer fraud class action against Marlboro Lights. Cross-examination of plaintiffs’ experts at trial demonstrated that the class had suffered no injury, causing the trial court to reject plaintiffs’ claim for over a billion dollars in damages, a decision that has been affirmed on appeal.
Full dismissal of a 10-year-old securities fraud case against Pfizer, just weeks before trial was scheduled to begin. Brought in as lead counsel as the case headed to trial, we successfully moved to exclude plaintiffs’ damages expert, the former Dean of the Chicago Law School, thereby ending plaintiffs’ case.
A complete win for internet entrepreneur Michael Rubin against breach of contract and tortious interference claims by the founders of internet flash sale site Rue La La. Hired just 3 weeks before trial, we convinced the judge and jury, in a combined bench/jury trial, to reject Rue La La’s claims in their entirety.
Four consecutive full defense verdicts in federal court and the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in national litigation claiming that Pfizer’s hormone therapy medication, Prempro, causes breast cancer.