Editor’s note: O’Melveny & Myers was named the winner of the Products Liability Litigation Department of the Year award at The American Lawyer’s annual Industry Awards in New York on Dec. 2.

Into the white-hot glare of the media spotlight stepped O’Melveny & Myers’ products liability litigators. Their client, Johnson & Johnson, was accused of misleading the public in its marketing of prescription opioids, contributing to an epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans over the past two decades. Thousands of lawsuits, brought by state, local and tribal governments, threatened to upend the pharmaceutical industry.

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