“A beauty contest” is how Robert Hilliard described the proceedings held one week ago in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in the multidistrict litigation in the General Motors litigation about allegedly defective ignitions.

Spoiler alert: Hilliard, a partner in Hilliard Muñoz Gonzales in Corpus Christi, won the role he sought at that contest as one of three court-appointed colead counsel for the plaintiffs in the MDL.