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Alston & Bird recently held its second annual Bob Dole Veterans Awards, presented to veterans at the firm, military family members, attorneys, employees, and alumni for extraordinary dedication to service members or veterans, their families, and their communities. The name of the award pays tribute to Senator Bob Dole, a highly decorated veteran, accomplished public servant, leading figure in Congress, and beloved member of the Alston & Bird family.

Alston & Bird has been recognized by Dell Technologies with its 2024 Pro Bono Law Firm Award in recognition of the firm’s dedication to people who would otherwise lack legal representation. The technology company celebrated Alston & Bird’s achievements at its Pro Bono & Diversity Award Presentation on November 20.

Alston & Bird has been recognized as a 2024 “Champion of Justice” by Amicus ALJ for the firm’s representation of various individuals, notably one who was held in jail for eight years while facing capital punishment after four people were murdered at a bonfire in rural Georgia in 2016. After a lengthy trial, he was acquitted of all 30 charges. The acquittal was the first of its kind in Georgia in decades.

Alston & Bird represented Veritiv, a leading provider of packaging and portfolio company of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in its acquisition of PAX Global, a distributor and converter of custom packaging products.

Alston & Bird was featured in the Los Angeles Times for strengthening the firm’s presence in Southern California in 2024 with the opening of a new office in Century City and a relocation of our downtown Los Angeles office to a stunning new space. The firm’s already strong intellectual property practice was also noted for its growth with the additions of partners Erik Carlson, Theresa Conduah, Olivia Kim, and Edward Poplawski to its offices in Southern California in 2024.

Alston & Bird has won a $7.3 million award for Cigna Health & Life Insurance Co. in its lawsuit against three South Florida clinical laboratories for wrongfully billing Cigna for medically unnecessary drug tests. After an eight-day trial, a federal jury in New Haven, Connecticut returned a verdict in Cigna’s favor for $7.3 million.

On November 4, Alston & Bird secured over $70 million in damages for client Sandoz in litigation against biopharmaceutical firm United Therapeutics Corp. (UTC). In 2019, Sandoz filed a suit alleging UTC blocked the sale of a generic version of hypertension medication by colluding with the manufacturer of infusion pumps for injecting UTC’s brand-name hypertension drug Remodulin to muscle out Sandoz’s generic alternative. Following a three-day bench trial, U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti found Sandoz lost profits of $137.2 million and entered a judgment in favor of Sandoz, awarding damages of $61.6 million, plus prejudgment interest of $8.9 million, on its breach of contract claim against UTC. The win was featured in The American Lawyer’s Litigator of the Week, Law360’s Legal Lions column, and The New Jersey Law Journal.

Alston & Bird has been recognized in eight practice categories within BTI Consulting Group’s 2025 Litigation Outlook. This annual report is based exclusively on in-depth surveys and interviews with leading legal decision-makers.

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