King & Spalding's top
Bayman, along with his co-defender Todd Davis, were in action earlier this year in the Dolin Vs GlaxoSmithKline trial in Chicago, a trial which saw them roundly trounced by the legal team of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC and Rapoport Law Offices, P.C.
In his summation to the jury Bayman uttered the immortal words, "Don’t you think if these medicines caused suicide someone would have spoken up?"
Hmm, the jury returned a verdict against the company he was representing yet, according to his interview with Law360, he sees this as a personal victory.
Law360 put Bayman in the spotlight by claiming, "King & Spalding LLP's Andrew Bayman helped limit GlaxoSmithKline's damages to $3 million in a closely watched federal trial over the company's liability for the suicide of a Reed Smith LLP partner who used a generic version of Paxil, landing him among Law360's 2017 Product Liability MVPs."
Law360 asked Bayman what he thought his biggest accomplishment was this year. He cites the Dolin trial as his biggest 'accomplishment.'
"We knew it was a very challenging case. We knew there was a risk of a really big verdict, given his earnings and his age," he said. "The company felt so strongly about its legal position that it said we're going to try this case, knowing that there was a huge risk of a very large verdict."Hang on a minute, didn't Bayman lose the case?
Why is he singing from the rafters about such failure? Why is that failure his own biggest accomplishment this year? He must lead an unaccomplished life considering he defines his Dolin Vs GlaxoSmithKline failure as a success.
On the pharmaceutical industry, Bayman believes that big pharma "have created medicines that have changed people's lives."
He's right. Just ask Wendy Dolin how her life has changed after her husband took paroxetine. Ask her kids and Stewart's friends how much their lives have changed, too.
Bayman continued by praising the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry.
"In the past", he said,"before they had these drugs, people were not able to get out of bed and lead normal lives."
During the trial of Dolin Vs GlaxoSmithKline, Bayman was jumping up and down like a jack-in-the-box, almost objecting to everything the plaintiff team wanted to tell or show the jury. Bayman didn't, it seemed, like any visuals, none more so than the following that was shown to the jury.
The above visual showed the jury how 22 adults had died during paroxetine clinical trials, all but two had died by suicide, all of whom were taking GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil at the time of their death. So, Mr. Bayman, there are 22 people here who can't get out of bed and lead normal lives, 20 of them killed themselves after ingesting Paxil, a drug that certainly did change the course of their lives.
Bayman told Law360, "I don't have any engineering background. I don't have any chemistry background," he said. "That in some ways has been an advantage, because I tell my experts, if you can't explain this to me, we're not going to be able to explain it to a jury who doesn't have a technical background."
So, the defense experts at the Dolin trial didn't explain their points to the jury correctly then? Or perhaps those experts weren't managed well by Bayman and co?
On giving advice to young product liability attorneys, Bayman told Law360, "There are different issues that you see in product liability litigation, and someone who has deep expertise can be particularly valuable."
Nice of him to pay homage to Brent Wisner of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC.
The Law360 article is here.
Bayman's biggest accomplishment this year can be seen in the links below.
Bob Fiddaman
Coverage of Bayman's biggest accomplishment
Dolin v GSK - Opening Arguments
Dolin Vs GSK - Day Two - "Jack-In-The-Box"
Dolin vs GSK - Healy 'Rocks Da House'
Dolin Vs GSK - JP Garnier Video Deposition
Dolin Vs GSK - The Dunbar Tape
Dolin Vs GSK - Day 4 - Slam Dunk
Dolin Vs GSK - 8.9 Suicide Increase For Adult Paxil Users
Dolin Vs GSK - Day 6 - Ass Kicking Semantics
Dolin Vs GSK - Day 7 - Abraham Lincoln
Dolin Vs GSK - Day 8 - Get to the Point, Todd!
Dolin Vs GSK - Glenmullen Nails It!
Dolin Vs GSK - "Babes"
Dolin Vs GSK - Wendy's Cross and GSK's Petition
Dolin Vs GSK - Robert "Bling Bling" Gibbons
Dolin Vs GSK: Suicide Prevention Warning "Futile", Claims GSK Exec
Dolin Vs GSK: Jury shown List of the Dead in Paxil Clinical Trials
Dolin Vs GSK: Last Man Standing & The Return of Dr. Healy
Dolin Vs GSK: Closing Arguments
Dolin Vs GSK - The Verdict
Exclusive: Interview With Wendy Dolin
From Chicago to New York - The Legacy of Stewart Dolin
Dolin Wins...Again
Dolin Vs GSK: Personal Vendetta or Bigger Picture?
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