Lyn Pruitt

• Served as the lead trial counsel in a products liability litigation achieving defense verdict in the third trial
• Defended a hormone therapy drug as the lead counsel achieving seven jury trial victories
• Represented a national statin company and statin drug as the lead trial counsel for first two cases
• Represented a national company in first Bellwether trial achieving a defense verdict
• Represented a defendant insurance company in the first (class action) case to be decided by the United States Supreme Court concerning CAFA jurisdiction
• Defended a manufacturer of respiratory equipment as the lead counsel obtaining defense verdicts in cases
• Represented pharmaceutical and medical device companies as co-lead trial counsel on national trial teams
• Served as lead trial counsel for pharmaceutical company in first trial in the country (medical device)
• Served as lead trial counsel for first state court trial in the country (largest toxic tort MDL in the country)
• Served as lead trial counsel in achieving defense verdicts in nursing home cases and medical malpractice cases
• Served as lead trial counsel in numerous class action cases, including both state and proposed national classes
• Managed 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

Chambers Global

• Band 2, USA Litigation: Trial Lawyers (2020 - 2024)
  

Chambers USA

• Band 5, Nationwide Product Liability & Mass Torts (2024)
• Band 6, Nationwide Product Liability & Mass Torts (2023)
• Band 1, Arkansas Litigation: General Commercial (2019 - 2021) 
• Band 2, Nationwide Litigation: Trial Lawyers (2020 - 2024) 
• Band 2, Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds Litigation: General Commercial (2024)
• Band 1, Texas: Dallas, Fort Worth & Surrounds Litigation: General Commercial (2021 - 2023)
  

The Legal 500 United States

• Recommended, Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices - Defense (2022 - 2024)
• Recommended, Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products (including Tobacco) (2024)

Additional Awards

• Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America (2023 - 2025)
• Arkansas Defense Lawyer of the Year, Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel (AADC) (2024)
• Arkansas 250 Most Influential Leader, Arkansas Business (2019)
• Top 100 Trial Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation (2021)
• Top 250 Women – South, Benchmark Litigation (2013 - 2014, 2019, 2023)
• Local Litigation Star, Benchmark Litigation (2013 - 2015)
• National Practice Area Star, Benchmark Litigation
• The International Who's Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers
• The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
• "Lawyer of the Year," Best Lawyers: Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants (2019)
• "Lawyer of the Year," Best Lawyers: Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants (2016, 2021)
• "Lawyer of the Year," Best Lawyers: Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants (2013)
• Listed in the 17th edition of Benchmark Litigation as a Benchmark Litigation Star (2024)

• "Personnel Moves: Republic Title of Texas Hires New COO," D Magazine, March 30, 2021
• "DLA Piper Snags Trial Trio In Dallas," Law360, March 30, 2021
• "Wake Up Call: Two Firms Offer Paid Leave to Get Covid Vaccines," Bloomberg Law, March 29, 2021

• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
• Board of Regents, American College of Trial Lawyers, 2019-2023
• Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
• International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
• IADC Board of Directors, 2004-2008
• Trial Director, IADC Trial Academy, 2017
• Faculty, IADC Trial Academy
• American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), participated in Masters in Trial program
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
• DRI Drug and Medical Device Committee
• American Bar Association
• ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section
• ABA Tort Law Committee
• ABA Civil Procedure Committee
• Arkansas Bar Association
• Fellow, Arkansas Bar Foundation
• Arkansas Bar Foundation Board (2022- present)
• Arkansas Civil Jury Instructions Committee, appointed by the Arkansas Supreme Court
• Former Chair, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• William R. Overton Inn of Court
• Pulaski County Bar Association
• Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, 2002-2007