Jack Nolan

Prior to joining Kirkland, Jack’s notable representative experience included:

• Representing Johnson & Johnson in talc-related matters, including several trials, resulting in a unanimous defense verdict, voluntary dismissal of claims, and favorable outcomes at trial and appeal, as well as in its talc supplier’s bankruptcy.
• Representing a technology company in the Astroworld litigation, pending in a Texas state court MDL, involving thousands of claims for wrongful death and personal injury arising out of a Travis Scott concert.
• Representing an individual defendant against RICO claims alleging a conspiracy to racially discriminate in the allocation of state pension funds to investment managers.
• Representing a consumer products company against claims that its laundry detergents, shampoos, soaps, and other products contaminated groundwater with 1,4-dioxane, resulting in a favorable settlement following expert discovery.
• Representing Altria in a patent infringement case involving the best-selling e-vapor product, securing a unanimous plaintiff jury verdict for $95 million in pre-judgment damages and potentially more than $1 billion in future royalties.
• Representing Frontier Communications in a False Claims Act case seeking hundreds of millions in damages relating to a fiber optic cable contract with the federal government, resulting in favorable settlement on eve of jury selection.

Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Represented the respondent mother, who fled Morocco with her young child to escape the petitioner husband’s domestic violence, in a Hague Convention proceeding brought in the Southern District of New York. After a twelve-day bench trial, the court held that returning the child to Morocco would expose the child to a grave risk of harm. Jack’s representation continued in New York Family Court, where the mother was eventually awarded full custody over the child.

Represented the respondent mother, an American national who fled Argentina with her young child to escape the petitioner husband’s domestic violence, in a Hague Convention proceeding brought in the Western District of Missouri. Following a trial on the issue of habitual residence, the court dismissed the petition to return the child, finding that Argentina was not the country of habitual residence and the Hague Convention did not apply.