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Paul Pennock

Paul Pennock

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Mass Torts Trial Attorney at Morgan & Morgan
Baltimore, MD

About Paul Pennock

Paul Pennock is one of the country's most accomplished mass tort litigators, with more than a billion dollars in recoveries and a 2025 induction into the mass tort and MDL litigators Hall of Fame. Before joining Morgan & Morgan he chaired one of Weitz & Luxenberg's national litigation practice groups for two decades. As co-lead of the federal Actos MDL he helped drive litigation that produced a $9 billion jury verdict, at the time the largest in history for a personal injury lawsuit, and he later served as national co-lead counsel in the power morcellator MDL, where he organized the first majority-women plaintiffs' steering committee in MDL history. His current work includes holding accountable businesses that profit from sex trafficking and the opioid trade.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$9 billionVerdict

Paul Pennock, now head of mass torts at Morgan & Morgan, then co-lead counsel of the federal Actos MDL at Weitz & Luxenberg, helped try the bellwether case that produced a $9 billion punitive verdict against Takeda and Eli Lilly for hiding the diabetes drug's bladder cancer risk. The award was later cut to about $36.9 million, but the verdict drove Takeda to a $2.4 billion global settlement in 2015.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana (Lafayette) · 2014Product LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

St. John's University School of Law
J.D.
Syracuse University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York

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