Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC

Congratulations to Olson Grimsley associate Isabel Broer and firm founder Jason Murray, who have been named to the 2024 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation, a guide to the country’s next generation of legal leaders. Lawdragon says this year’s honorees make their law firms “stronger for the talent, the vision, the hope these lawyers bring.” Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gEdkTNMr

Congratulations to firm founding partner Eric Olson, who has been selected to the Denver Business Journal’s “2024 Power Book of 45 Business Leaders to Watch,” which is designed to recognize Colorado’s “movers and shakers.” The recognition focused on Olson Grimsley’s creation, its current projects, and goals. “We show that a team of professionals working together in a supportive organization to hold the powerful to account can succeed and do well by doing good,” Mr. Olson told the Denver Business Journal. Read more: https://bit.ly/4c6FYwo

Congratulations to all five Olson Grimsley founders Eric Olson, Sean Grimsley, Kenzo Kawanabe, Abigail Hinchcliff and Jason Murray on their selection to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers list for 2024. They’re the only plaintiff’s lawyers in Colorado named in the guide. Lawdragon describes this year’s honorees as the lawyers who “go to bat when their clients have been swindled, defrauded, shut out of markets, bamboozled and just plain lied to.” Read more: https://bit.ly/3x9uSYm

Olson Grimsley has secured a verdict worth $20.35 million against Berkshire Hathaway’s Johns Manville after a federal jury in Denver sided with manufacturer Thermal Pipes Shields, Inc. This verdict follows a nearly five-year antitrust battle over Johns Manville’s attempt to maintain monopoly over the manufacturing and selling of pipe insulation also known as “calsil.” Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bjKW8v

Couldn't have said it better than my partner, Ryan Sparacino - glad our firm and our partners at Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC are receiving recognition, but more importantly that this important case and the terrible problem of human trafficking is getting the attention it deserves.

Forbes named Kenzo Kawanabe to its inaugural list of America's Top 200 Lawyers. Forbes credited Kenzo's broad trial experience in "commercial disputes, product liability and intellectual property," as well as our "impact litigation plaintiffs firm's mission of holding the powerful to account." According to Forbes, the "elite lawyers on this list were selected through a rigorous, multi-stage process of researching, evaluating and rating thousands of candidates" and these "top lawyers," like Kenzo, have handled "the most consequential cases, deals or legal trends in recent years—whether litigation, tech, transactional, intellectual property, civil rights, M&A or private equity." This recognition follows our firm's recent $60 million groundbreaking trial victory against Mead Johnson in the first-in-the-country trial seeking to hold makers of cows milk-based formula responsible for the harms that their formula cause to premature babies. Read more about Kenzo and the Forbes list here: https://lnkd.in/gRWyX_qC

  This week, our partners Sean Grimsley, Kenzo Kawanabe, and Abigail Hinchcliff achieved a groundbreaking $60 million trial victory against Mead Johnson, the manufacturer of Enfamil. This case is the first in the nation to reach a verdict on whether makers of cow’s-milk based formula are responsible for causing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in premature infants.    The St. Clair, Illinois jury returned the verdict after less than two hours of deliberation and awarded our client, Jasmine Watson, $60 million in compensatory damages—more than twice the amount we requested. Under Illinois law at the time of filing, Ms. Watson could not request punitive damages.    Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC was retained as lead trial counsel less than one month before the four-week trial. Along with our colleagues Samara Hoose (Haapala) and Beth Costner, we were proud to work with Benjamin Whiting, Amelia Frenkel, the fantastic Keller Postman LLC team, and the exceptional Dave Cates of The Cates Law Firm, LLC to achieve this historic result.    “We are grateful that Jasmine has finally received some measure of justice,” Grimsley said. “Chance should still be alive and, as we argued and the jury found, would be if he had not been fed Mead Johnson’s cow’s milk-based preterm formula.”   Read more from Reuters: https://lnkd.in/gDSQuKbT

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As Kenzo Kawanabe told Denver Business Journal, at Olson Grimsley “we all have different backgrounds, but the thing that's similar is that we are all trial lawyers — and we all believe we can use our skills to improve our communities.” Check out DBJ’s coverage of our launch here: https://lnkd.in/eqPFdcUU