Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
USA Guide 2024 : New York
Band 5
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Steptoe LLP offers capabilities in a wide range of commercial disputes, with substantial experience handling cases alleging fraud and breach of contract. The team has expertise across a range of practice areas, including insurance, product liability and intellectual property. It has additional capabilities in professional liability suits.
Work Highlights
- Steptoe LLP represented Mead Johnson as national coordinating counsel for over 400 cases, involving thousands of plaintiffs, alleging that Mead Johnson's pre-term infant formula products cause necrotizing enterocolitis.
Strengths
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"The service level is highly professional and extremely responsive, not only with respect to the legal aspects of the case, but equally important with regard to the personal human side by exhibiting compassion, empathy and care to address any concern, apprehension and worries that I might have."
"Steptoe's partners and associates have demonstrated a consistent aptitude and appetite for complex and sophisticated matters. They have relished taking on challenging legal questions and factual investigation, and have consistently delivered quality work product and positive results."
"The partners provide a thorough but practical view to litigation and are strong strategic partners to us. Everyone on the team provides valuable insight, they understand in-house complexities and meet all deliverables."
"The service level is highly professional and extremely responsive, not only with respect to the legal aspects of the case, but equally important with regard to the personal human side by exhibiting compassion, empathy and care to address any concern, apprehension and worries that I might have."
"Steptoe's partners and associates have demonstrated a consistent aptitude and appetite for complex and sophisticated matters. They have relished taking on challenging legal questions and factual investigation, and have consistently delivered quality work product and positive results."
"The partners provide a thorough but practical view to litigation and are strong strategic partners to us. Everyone on the team provides valuable insight, they understand in-house complexities and meet all deliverables."
Notable Practitioners
Elyse Echtman maintains a broad-based commercial litigation practice, regularly taking the lead on sophisticated matters including consumer class actions, product liability cases and IP litigation.
"Elyse is a solid lawyer and a good resource for us on litigation matters."
"She is a terrific commercial litigator - she's fierce, digs in deep and finds the issues that help us win. She is also a terrific writer and always on top of everything in a case."
Michael Miller covers both civil and criminal litigation. He is highly rated for his handling of contract disputes and securities cases.
"Michael has a genius mind for problem-solving and is very calm."
"He is a strategic thinker, very good writer and great at oral argument."
Ranked Lawyers at
Steptoe LLP
New York