Law360, New York ( February 25, 2016, 12:50 PM EST) -- Richard C. Godfrey is a senior litigation partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, based in Chicago, where he has practiced since 1979, and served as a litigation member of Kirkland's Global Management Committee from 1999 through last year, having reached his maximum term limit. He has acted as trial and appellate counsel in both individual and class action suits involving complex claims in matters involving a variety of practice areas, including among others antitrust, contracts, consumer fraud, fraud and false advertising, employment discrimination, Employment Retirement Income Security Act, Fair Labor Standards Act and state law equivalents, environmental, franchise and distribution, insurance, mass tort, products liability, trade secrets and tax. . . .
Law360 is on it, so you are, too.
A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions.
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
