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Lyn P. Pruitt
Member
Email:
lpruitt@mwlaw.com
Phone:
(501) 688.8869
Fax:
(501) 688.8807
Experience
Practice Areas
Lyn Pruitt focuses her practice on litigation and has built a reputation as one of the country’s most
Products Liability & Mass Tort
talented and respected litigators. Lyn has amassed a broad range of experience from products
cases, consumer class actions and toxic tort matters with particular emphasis in drug and medical
Class Action Defense
Toxic Tort and Environmental Litigation
device cases. She has successfully defended in some of the most critical product liability litigation
Nursing Home Defense
in recent memory and has tried over 60 jury trial cases to verdict.
Complex Commercial Litigation
Lyn has served as liaison counsel and trial counsel for national hormone therapy litigation and lead
Health Care Litigation
trial counsel for numerous pharmaceutical and medical device companies. She has served as lead
Litigation
trial counsel in national statin litigation, co-lead trial counsel on a number of national trial teams in
Bet the Company Litigation
pharmaceutical and medical device cases, and lead counsel in products cases. Lyn has acted as lead
trial counsel in numerous class action cases, including both state and proposed national classes.
Education
Lyn has experience in class certification arguments and briefing in both state and federal courts;
Ouachita Baptist University
class certification arguments at the Arkansas Supreme Court level; obtaining, preparing and
B.A., summa cum laude - 1980
presenting class action and merits experts; and preparing class action cases for trial on the merits.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
She has also acted as lead trial counsel in nursing home trials and medical malpractice cases and
William H. Bowen School of Law
participated in numerous jury trials as lead counsel during the last thirty years.
J.D., with Honors - 1984
Representative Cases
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Bar Admissions
Lead counsel in achieving seven jury trial victories in litigation relating to the hormone
therapy drug Prempro
Arkansas
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Lead counsel for first two bellwether cases to be tried in the country relating to the statin
drug Lipitor
Court Admissions
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United States Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court concerning CAFA jurisdiction
United States Court of Appeals for the
Eighth Circuit
Represented defendant insurance company in the first (class action) case to be decided by the
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Lead counsel in achieving defense verdicts in nursing home cases
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Lyn P. Pruitt Member
United States District Court for the
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Eastern District of Arkansas
United States District Court for the
Western District of Arkansas
Lead counsel in obtaining defense verdicts in silica cases representing a manufacturer of
respiratory equipment
Professional Honors
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Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers
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Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
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Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America
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International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) - Member, Faculty of IADC Trial Academy,
IADC Board of Directors (2004-2008), Acting as Trial Director for the IADC Trial Academy in
2017
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Member of American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) (Participated in Masters In Trial
Program).
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Named to Super Lawyers* Corporate Counsel Edition, Personal Injury – Products Liability
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Named to Mid-South Super Lawyers*
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Named to Mid-South Super Lawyers* Top 50 Lawyers
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The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers
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The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers
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Chambers and Partners USA 2015: Litigation: General Commercial and Medical Malpractice
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Named to The Best Lawyers in America**, in Little Rock, since 2001
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Named to The Best Lawyers in America** in the areas of Personal Injury Litigation Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation- Defendants, in Little Rock, for the years 20112016
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Named to The Best Lawyers in America** in the areas of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants, in Little Rock, for the years 2013-2016
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Named the Best Lawyers** Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants "Lawyer of the Year" in
Little Rock, 2016
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Named the Best Lawyers** Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants "Lawyer of the
Year" in Little Rock, 2013
*Published by Thomson Reuters
**Published by Woodward White, Inc.
Other Activities
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Member of Defense Research Institute (DRI) and its Drug and Medical Device Committee
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Member of American Bar Association and its Tort and Insurance Practice Section
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Member of Arkansas Bar Association, and its Tort Law Committee, and the Civil Procedure
Committee
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Lyn P. Pruitt Member
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Member of the Arkansas Civil Jury Instructions Committee (Appointed by the Arkansas
Supreme Court)
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Served as Chair of Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee
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Fellow of Arkansas Bar Foundation
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Fellow of American Bar Foundation
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Member of William R. Overton Inn of Court
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Member of Pulaski County Bar Association
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Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, 20022007
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Benchmark Litigation - Product Liability, Environmental, Toxic Tort, Local Litigation Star, 20132015
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Benchmark Litigation - Top 250 Women in Litigation - Arkansas, 2013-2014
Firm News
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Mitchell Williams Attorney Lyn Pruitt Appointed as Director of the International Association of
Defense Counsel's 2017 Trial Academy
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