Partner Bill Carmody has been named to Bloomberg Law’s inaugural “Unrivaled” list. This debut feature from Bloomberg profiles “trial lawyers who lead the legal profession in high-stakes and impactful trials and settlements.” According to Bloomberg, these 32 leading lawyers, “built winning teams and strategies designed to defeat their opponents in jury bench and trials” and “walked away victorious with verdicts, post-trial wins, or favorable settlements.”
Carmody tried the three biggest cases in the country in 2024 – serving as lead trial counsel to plaintiffs in two of the largest jury trials and one bench trial and secured historical results for his clients.
Topping that list was the hotly followed In re: National Football League’s Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation, where Carmody obtained a victory with a jury finding the NFL engaged in a conspiracy and violated antitrust laws. The jury awarded more than $4.7 billion in damages, one of the largest antitrust verdicts in U.S. history. The trial court vacated this verdict on a post-trial motion, but left untouched the determination that the NFL violated two different provisions of the Sherman Act. The case is on appeal to the Ninth Circuit where the DoJ filed an amicus brief in support of Plaintiffs’ claims for injunctive relief.
In 2024, Carmody also secured a $274 million verdict on behalf of the City of Baltimore in its opioid litigation against McKesson and AmerisourceBergen. The jury verdict is the only successful verdict any plaintiff has obtained in opioid litigation against McKesson and AmerisourceBergen. Before the trial, Carmody settled with several defendants for $427.5 million, bringing total recoveries to over $700 million – exponentially more than they would have received had it participated in the MDL global settlements.
Read Bloomberg’s Q&A with Carmody here and more about Carmody’s work here.
