backThe American Law Institute has elected King & Spalding partners Will Barnette and Julia Zousmer as members. The American Law Institute’s membership “consists of eminent judges, lawyers, and law professors from all areas of the United States and from many foreign countries, selected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law.”
Barnette is a member of the firm’s business litigation practice and class action defense group. During his 30-year career, he has consistently led clients to successful outcomes in their most sensitive and high exposure class action, MDL and related regulatory matters. Barnette has deep experience in litigating consumer, products, and antitrust class actions, commercial disputes and managing internal investigations.
Zousmer has more than a decade of experience defending pharmaceutical and consumer product manufacturers in federal multidistrict litigation practice and state court coordinated proceedings and has managed dockets of hundreds and thousands of cases at all phases of the MDL lifecycle – from MDL formation, to drafting foundational case management orders, crafting/implanting a bellwether process, trying bellwether cases, drafting motions dismissing hundreds of cases. She has extensive trial experience, having achieved successful outcomes for clients on more than 10 trial teams in state and federal courts in some of the highest profile product liability MDLs of the past decade.