Lyn Pruitt focuses her practice on litigation and has built a reputation as one of the country’s most talented and respected litigators. She has amassed a broad range of experience from products cases, consumer class actions and toxic tort matters with particular emphasis in drug and medical device cases. Ms. Pruitt has successfully defended some of the most critical product liability litigation in recent memory and has tried over 60 jury trial cases to verdict.
Ms. Pruitt has served as liaison counsel and trial counsel for national hormone therapy litigation and lead trial counsel for numerous pharmaceutical and medical device companies. She has served as lead trial counsel in national statin litigation, co-lead trial counsel on a number of national trial teams in pharmaceutical and medical device cases, and lead counsel in products cases. Ms. Pruitt has acted as lead trial counsel in numerous class action cases, including both state and proposed national classes.
Ms. Pruitt has experience in class certification arguments and briefing in both state and federal courts; class certification arguments at the Arkansas Supreme Court level; obtaining, preparing and presenting class action and merits experts; and preparing class action cases for trial on the merits. She has also acted as lead trial counsel in nursing home trials and medical malpractice cases and participated in numerous jury trials as lead counsel during the last thirty years.