Winston & Strawn Named Trials Group of the Year by Law360

In 2019, Winston & Strawn attorneys helped NCAA players gain a limited victory in an antitrust suit over pay caps and also helped a doctor win the only full acquittal among numerous defendants in a fraud trial, earning Winston & Strawn a spot as a Law360 2019 Trials Group of the Year.

Jeffrey Kessler, Co-Executive Chairman & Co-Chair of Winston's Antitrust/Competition & Sports Law Practices, was part of a multi-firm effort that secured a limited win for the college athletes in March. 

Dallas Managing Partner Tom Melsheimer secured the only acquittal among 9 defendants in a $40 million bribery and kickback scheme aimed at steering surgical patients to Forest Park Medical Center in Dallas.

“Winston has a completely integrated litigation practice, from pretrial motions, dispositive motions, to discovery, to trials, to appeals. So the firm does everything in the litigation area … I think we pride ourselves on being very integrated across the entire firm to try to litigate [or] appeal any kind of case,” Tom said.

Read more about how 2019 was a stand out year for Winston’s trial lawyers in this Law360 Profile.