USA Guide 2026 : Illinois
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King & Spalding routinely represents household name companies in high stakes litigation, such as in class actions, patent litigation and false advertising matters. The firm has noteworthy strength handling product liability cases as it defends pharmaceutical and consumer product manufacturers in multidistrict litigation. The team is experienced in a variety of sectors, such as retail and healthcare.
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King & Spalding represented Tractable in a competitor versus competitor trade secrets dispute with CCC Intelligence Solutions.
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It's a superb trial team. Each is a highly skilled trial lawyer, with deep experience, superb analytical skills and a commanding presence in courtroom proceedings.
King & Spalding has deep, nationwide expertise across a variety of practice areas. They do an amazing job getting up to speed and crafting arguments.
King & Spalding is efficient and business-minded in negotiating a resolution. They do a nice job of analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the claims and leveraging the strengths in a way that result in a favorable settlement.
They're good at distilling information from various cases and coming up with creative strategies.
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Livia Kiser has substantial expertise advising clients on consumer products litigation and class action defense.
She is a creative thinker and good on class actions.
Liv is one of the first lawyers I seek out for complex and high stakes disputes. She identifies issues that other lawyers miss and successfully strategizes to use them to our legal advantage.
I have nothing but amazing things to say about Liv. She is a brilliant attorney.
Lazar Raynal is a skilled trial attorney who offers clients broad expertise in complex litigation, such as in class actions, trade secret disputes and breach of contract claims.
He excels in courtroom proceedings.
He always has our best interests in mind.
Lazar is a truly talented trial lawyer.
Julia Zousmer is highly sought after for her experience handling complex product liability litigation, particularly in the area of pharmaceuticals.
Julia provides prompt, efficient and excellent work product. She's a gem.
Julia is a powerhouse.
Julia has a great ability to be extremely organized with very complicated and sprawling litigation. She is also able to extract agreements out of plaintiff lawyers that you can only get from being collegial. It is a real skill.
She is very skilled in managing a complex docket.
She is an outstanding litigator.
Litigation: General Commercial
Litigation: General Commercial
Litigation: Product Liability
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