(l-r) Dan Donovan, Ragan Naresh and Kate Katz, of Kirkland & Ellis.
Describe your firm’s approach to litigation and your strategy for building successful teams for trials or other matters. We immerse ourselves in the facts of the case and then build the right team. We have a deep and broad bench of talented litigators. Our lawyers get trial experience earlier than they would elsewhere, and we prepare for that with the Kirkland Institute of Trial Advocacy. Although many of our lawyers are trial lawyers and are not traditional specialists, many of them also have developed expertise in specific areas. That allows us to tailor teams to best suit the needs of a case and to ensure our clients get a trial-ready team from top to bottom.
Discuss the two biggest litigation cases your firm worked on in 2019 and how you reached successful outcomes. Kirkland won [more than $256 million] for BNSF Railway in its dispute with J.B. Hunt Transport over the parties’ joint intermodal transportation business, which ships containers of goods across the country by rail and truck. On top of the [more than $256 million] in damages, Kirkland secured substantial going-forward value for BNSF based on the arbitrators’ interpretation of the parties’ contract. BNSF and Hunt are the largest U.S. intermodal providers, moving 70% of all domestic intermodal shipments annually.
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