Phyllis Jones

Covington & Burling LLP

Phyllis Jones is a partner in Covington’s Litigation Practice. Recognized by Chambers USA as a “trusted trial counsel and strategist,” Phyllis has a wide-ranging complex litigation practice representing clients in state and federal courts and before arbitral panels and regulatory bodies.

Experience

  • Trial counsel to Boehringer Ingelheim in the first two Pradaxa suits to proceed to trial. Defense verdicts in both suits.
  • Trial counsel to GE in patent suit arising from dispute over Smart Grid technology. Jury verdict on behalf of plaintiff reversed by Federal Circuit.
  • Trial counsel to Lilly in the first three Cymbalta suits to proceed to trial. Defense verdicts in all three suits.
  • Defense of Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. in mass tort litigation involving the medication Accutane, including as a member of two trial teams.
  • Representation of Genentech in first-of-its-kind hearing before the FDA on the withdrawal of the metastatic breast cancer indication for Avastin®.
  • Second-chaired a proceeding before a panel of the American Arbitration Association on behalf of a healthcare client asserting claims against former business partner.
  • Representation of The Gillette Company in environmental insurance coverage action in Massachusetts state court.
  • Secured summary judgment on behalf of George Mason University on sexual harassment and sex discrimination claims pending in federal district court.
  • Representation of UBS Financial Services, Inc. in putative class actions in federal district court involving claims of employment discrimination based on race.
  • Advice to Sodexo, Inc. on diversity best practices and programming in connection with oversight of consent decree entered in race discrimination class action.
  • Advice on federal and state employment law issues arising from $41 billion merger in the pharmaceutical industry.

Education

  • Yale Law School, J.D., 2005
      • Yale Law Journal
  • University of Oklahoma, B.A., 2002
      • Phi Beta Kappa
      • with Highest Honors

Judicial Clerkship

  • Hon. Julia Smith Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 2006 – 2007
  • Hon. Claire V. Eagan, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma, 2005 – 2006

Honors

  • Benchmark Litigation, “Top 250 Women in Litigation” (2018)
  • The AmLaw Litigation Daily, “Litigator of the Week” (5/11/2018)
  • Chambers USA Nationwide, Product Liability & Mass Torts (2016-2021)

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