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Lyn Pruitt

Lyn Pruitt

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Lyn Pruitt is an outstanding trial lawyer. She provides practical advice and excellent client service. She is a fabulous trial lawyer. She is very experienced and does a fantastic job.
— Chambers USA 2024
Dallas
About

Lyn Pruitt is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers who has first-chaired trials for a broad range of clients, including leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies, in major product liability and other cases in the past 30 years. She also represents Fortune 500 companies in consumer class actions and toxic tort matters.

She has tried over 60 trials to verdict and led many very important cases to resolution.  She is particularly adept at developing and preparing trial narratives for bellwether trials for some of the leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies in the country.  Clients have stated “she has a way of talking to juries so they understand.  They relate to her.”

Her success in achieving defense verdicts is unparalleled and her clients acknowledge this, as demonstrated by their comments in Chambers.

Areas of FocusLife SciencesLitigation, Arbitration and InvestigationsProduct Liability
Bar admissionsArkansasTexas
CourtsUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of ArkansasUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eighth CircuitSupreme Court of the United States
Lyn [Pruitt] is an outstanding trial lawyer. She's highly, highly experienced... [and is] a very likeable presence in the courtroom... She's nationally sought out for trials.
— Chambers USA
Lyn Pruitt is fantastic. Her authenticity, charm, and brain power make her a phenomenal advocate.
— Chambers USA

EXPERIENCE

  • Served as the lead trial counsel in a products liability litigation achieving defense verdict in the third trial
  • Defended a hormone therapy drug as the lead counsel achieving seven jury trial victories
  • Represented a national statin company and statin drug as the lead trial counsel for first two cases
  • Represented a national company in first Bellwether trial achieving a defense verdict
  • Represented a defendant insurance company in the first (class action) case to be decided by the United States Supreme Court concerning CAFA jurisdiction
  • Defended a manufacturer of respiratory equipment as the lead counsel obtaining defense verdicts in cases
  • Represented pharmaceutical and medical device companies as co-lead trial counsel on national trial teams
  • Served as lead trial counsel for pharmaceutical company in first trial in the country (medical device)
  • Served as lead trial counsel for first state court trial in the country (largest toxic tort MDL in the country)
  • Served as lead trial counsel in achieving defense verdicts in nursing home cases and medical malpractice cases
  • Served as lead trial counsel in numerous class action cases, including both state and proposed national classes
  • Managed class certification arguments and briefing in both state and federal courts; class certification arguments at the Arkansas Supreme Court level; obtaining, preparing and presenting class action and merits experts; and preparing class action cases for trial on the merits
Education
  • J.D., University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law 
  • B.A., Ouachita Baptist University, summa cum laude 

Awards

Chambers USA

  • Band 5, Nationwide Product Liability & Mass Torts, (2024)
  • Band 6, Nationwide Product Liability & Mass Torts, (2023)
  • Band 1, Arkansas Litigation: General Commercial, (2019-2021) 
  • Band 2, Nationwide Litigation: Trial Lawyers, (2020-2024) 
  • Band 2, Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds Litigation: General Commercial, (2024)
  • Band 1, Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds Litigation: General Commercial, (2021-2023)

Chambers Global

  • Band 2, USA Litigation: Trial Lawyers, (2020-2025)

The Legal 500 United States

  • Recommended, Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices - Defense, (2022-2024)
  • Recommended, Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products (including Tobacco), (2024)
Additional Recognitions
  • 500 Leading Litigators in America, Lawdragon, (2023-2025)
  • Arkansas Defense Lawyer of the Year, Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel, (AADC), (2024)
  • Arkansas 250 Most Influential Leader, Arkansas Business, (2019)
  • Top 100 Trial Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, (2021)
  • Top 250 Women – South, Benchmark Litigation, (2013-2014, 2019, 2023)
  • Local Litigation Star, Benchmark Litigation, (2013-2015)
  • National Practice Area Star, Benchmark Litigation
  • The International Who's Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers
  • The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
  • "Lawyer of the Year," Best Lawyers: Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants, (2019)
  • "Lawyer of the Year," Best Lawyers: Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, (2016, 2021)
  • "Lawyer of the Year," Best Lawyers: Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants, (2013)
  • Listed in the 17th edition of Benchmark Litigation as a Benchmark Litigation Star, (2024)

Media Mentions

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
  • Board of Regents, American College of Trial Lawyers, 2019-2023
  • Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
  • Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
  • International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
  • IADC Board of Directors, 2004-2008
  • Trial Director, IADC Trial Academy, 2017
  • Faculty, IADC Trial Academy
  • American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), participated in Masters in Trial program
  • Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • DRI Drug and Medical Device Committee
  • American Bar Association
  • ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section
  • ABA Tort Law Committee
  • ABA Civil Procedure Committee
  • Arkansas Bar Association
  • Fellow, Arkansas Bar Foundation
  • Arkansas Bar Foundation Board (2022- present)
  • Arkansas Civil Jury Instructions Committee, appointed by the Arkansas Supreme Court
  • Former Chair, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee
  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation
  • William R. Overton Inn of Court
  • Pulaski County Bar Association
  • Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, 2002-2007

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