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Trial Aces: Kirkland's Robert C. 'Mike' Brock
Aug 28, 2015 | Law360
By Andrew Westney

...Brock’s roles leading the BP Deepwater Horizon trial team and tackling product liability cases for Merck over its Vioxx and Fosamax drugs have meant countless hours immersed in the minutiae of those matters, but he never loses sight of the need to make the key things clear to the judge or jury hearing a case.

Trial Aces: Kirkland's Robert C. 'Mike' Brock

Aug 28, 2015 | Law360

By Andrew Westney

From an Alabama state court trial the day he passed his bar exam to massively complex civil litigation for the likes of BP PLC andMerck & Co. Inc., Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Robert C. “Mike” Brock has cultivated a deceptively simple philosophy summed up in a Southernism: “Let the rough end bump.”

Brock’s roles leading the BP Deepwater Horizon trial team and tackling product liability cases for Merck over its Vioxx and Fosamax drugs have meant countless hours immersed in the minutiae of those matters, but he never loses sight of the need to make the key things clear to the judge or jury hearing a case....
Venable LLP partner Stephen E. Marshall, who has worked alongside Brock on Vioxx and Fosamax litigation for Merck, said Brock has a special knack for making extremely complex scientific, medical and regulatory issues comprehensible to a jury.

“A lot of people who are very, very smart understand the science and medicine, but can’t distill it down and translate that to the jury in a way that’s helpful to your case,” Marshall said. “Mike has that ability, and it’s a rare ability.”
Brock’s sincerity, honesty and sense of fun also help to win juries over and make his own witnesses more comfortable, Marshall said...
For full story:
http://www.law360.com/articles/696061/trial-aces-kirkland-s-robert-c-mike-brock

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