About Philip Dray

The Pioneer

Every year since 2005, the International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers has named Sheila L. Birnbaum—co-head of the complex mass tort and insurance group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and a former associate dean and professor at New York University Law School—the leading products liability attorney in the world. That’s right: the world. Upon meeting her it’s easy to understand why. A diminutive woman with sparkling eyes and a thatch of brownish hair, …