A Fresh Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

Kirkland partners Donna Welch and Jessica Giulitto and associate Dan Murdock received runners-up honors for The Am Law Litigation Daily's “Litigator of the Week” contest for their work for The Chicago Cubs.

"... Runners-up honors also go to lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis and Barnes & Thornburg who helped the Chicago Cubs fend off claims that the baseball club violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. The team was accused of failing to have the minimum number of accessible seats at Wrigley Field and failing to disperse those seats horizontally around the stadium as part of a renovation project. After a bench trial in April, which involved U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso visiting the park and viewing the accessible seats from the pitcher’s mound, the judge this week found the plaintiff failed prove the club violated the ADA, concluding “it is hard to imagine a greater spread of accessible seats around the field of play.” The trial team was led by Kirkland’s Donna Welch and included partner Jessica Giulitto and associate Dan Murdock."