Stephanie Parker co-leads the Firm's Business & Tort Litigation Practice and oversees the product liability litigation practice. She has extensive experience trying and leading "bet the company" litigation, especially product liability, mass tort, and patent cases. In June 2019, she led the team that won a complete defense verdict in Robinson v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which was the retrial of a $23.6 billion plaintiff's verdict (originally tried by another firm). She also led the team that achieved the record-breaking patent infringement verdict for Idenix Pharmaceuticals (subsidiary of Merck & Co.), the largest infringement verdict in U.S. history. After a two-week trial, the jury ordered Gilead Sciences to pay $2.54 billion in damages. Stephanie was named "Litigator of the Week" by The AmLaw Litigation Daily for Idenix's patent victory. She also serves as lead lawyer on significant litigation for GE.
Stephanie has served clients in the tobacco, chemical, gasoline, pharmaceutical, medical device, aerospace, and automotive industries. She also has significant other litigation experience, ranging from banking to white collar criminal matters to the First Amendment. For more than 20 years, Stephanie has served as lead trial counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in smoking and health-related jury trials. In this role, she has tried every bellwether trial in the Engle litigation: she was the lead defense lawyer in Reynolds' first state court trial, which resulted in the first ever Engle defense verdict for the industry; she was the lead defense lawyer in the first Engle federal court case, which also resulted in a defense verdict; and she has made many significant legal arguments on behalf of Reynolds.
ビデオ
担当案件
Litigator of the Week: The Biggest Patent Verdict in U.S. History--By a Lawyer Who Never Tried an IP Case Before, The Litigation Daily (interviewed)
出版物情報
- December 20, 2016
ATL Lawyer Who Led $2.548 Patent Win Had Never Tried an IP Case, Daily Journal (interviewed) - December 15, 2016
Idenix Wins $2.5B Verdict In Gilead Hep C Drug Patent Fight, Law360 (interviewed) - May 2016
Trial Pros: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker, Law360 - January 2016
Jury Clears RJR in $14M Row Over Pharmacy Tech's Death, Law360 - November 2015
Product Liability MVP: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker, Law360 - August 2015
Trial Aces: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker, Law360 - April 2015
How Top Product Liability Defenders Sway Jurors, Law360 - November 2014
Product Liability MVP: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker, Law360
- November 5, 2015
Becoming First Chair, Defense Research Institute - September 5, 2014
Class Actions, Georgia ICLE - September 18, 2009
Trial Techniques - October 6, 2006
Class Actions - November 11, 2005
Successful Trial Practices - Cross Examination, Georgia ICLE - October 7, 2005
Class Actions - Expert Witness Testimony at the Class Certification Hearing - October 14, 2004
Class Actions - Product Liability, Georgia ICLE - August 7, 2004
New Frontiers in Product Liability Litigation, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Presidential CLE Program - June 11, 2004
Cross Examination, Defense Research Institute - February 21, 2003
Successful Trial Techniques, Georgia ICLE - December 13, 2002
Trial Techniques in Product Liability Cases - New Ideas and Proven Strategies, Georgia ICLE - March 28, 2002
Successful Trial Techniques, Georgia ICLE - November 1, 2001
Professional and Ethical Dilemmas in Litigatiion, Georgia ICLE - December 7, 2000
Nuts & Bolts of Product Liability Law, cochair, Georgia ICLE - June 9, 2000
Ninth Annual Product Liability Seminar, chair, Georgia ICLE
- Vanderbilt University (J.D. 1984); Wesleyan College (A.B. with honors in Philosophy 1981)
- Georgia and Florida
Recipient of Vanderbilt Law School Distinguished Alumna Award
Recipient of Wesleyan College Alumnae Award for Distinguished Achievement in a Profession
Chambers USA (Band 1 nationwide in product liability)
Law360 "Trials MVP," "Product Liability MVP" (5 times), and "Super MVP"
National Law Journal: "Class Action/Mass Tort Trailblazer" (2023) and "Winning Litigator" (2017)
Member, Council of The American Law Institute
Former board member, Girl Scout Council of Northwest Georgia
- Law Clerk to Judge Wilbur D. Owens Jr., U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia (1984-1986)