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Kirkland & Ellis LLP
333 West Wolf Point Plaza
Chicago, IL 60654
United States
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Position

Diana Watral is a litigation partner and trial lawyer in Kirkland’s Chicago office. Diana represents companies as both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of business and intellectual property disputes, with recent experience in contract, False Claims Act, trade secret, patent, sports, products liability, and complex commercial cases.

Most recently, Diana served as trial counsel to Flexus Biosciences, a Bristol-Myers Squibb subsidiary, in a $1 billion trade secret jury trial that resulted in a complete defense verdict. Diana successfully defended Abbott in a $1 billion False Claim Act jury trial and second-chaired Baxter Healthcare’s successful defense of a $400 million contract dispute. She also successfully defended a TRO and injunction request seeking to prevent the Chicago Cubs from expanding Wrigley Field.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes

(Next Generation Partners)

Diana WatralKirkland & Ellis LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP‘s litigation practice group comes highly recommended as ‘very experienced in all areas of commercial litigation’, drawing on the team’s deep bench of ‘top drawer legal talent’ to handle complex cases spanning the entire breadth of industry sectors and substantive areas, including Congressional inquiries, securities litigation, class action claims, government investigations and white-collar crime. Leading practitioner Mark Filip splits his time between Washington DC and Chicago and is a go-to name for government enforcement defense and internal investigations. Pre-eminent trial lawyer Jim Hurst is well-regarded for his advice in aspects of complex commercial litigation, having recently spearheaded the firm’s successful defence of Abbott Laboratories in multi-district litigation arising out of a recall of infant formula. Diana Watral represents high-end clients in a broad range of disputes, including contract, False Claims Act, trade secret, antitrust, patent, sports, and product liability cases. New York’s Sandra Goldstein is an important port of call for securities litigation, fraud class actions and business-critical commercial disputes. All lawyers named are based in Chicago unless otherwise specified.