John Ursu

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ABOUT JOHN URSU

John Ursu builds winning strategies in major cases. John has led teams that have achieved threshold dismissals in cases involving more than $5 billion of potential liability, including third-party complaints in multidistrict litigation and consolidated state litigation, putative class actions, a CAFA-removed mass action, and a consolidated mass-tort state action. John has won major dispositive motions for corporate clients in some of the most challenging venues in the country, including an East St. Louis federal court, a river parish in Louisiana and the Court of Common Claims in South Carolina. As a client once said, “You could hire someone else to set the strategy for your case. But why take the risk?”John drives results in high-stakes matters. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, John led a multi-office team of commercial, intellectual property and white-collar attorneys, which stopped an attempted $14.25 billion fraud on the State of Indiana in connection with the procurement of 3M’s N95 respirators. He defended Dominion Voting Systems in cases filed in Minnesota arising from the 2020 national election, and has argued for the constitutionality of COVID vaccine mandates for the City of Northfield. Previously, John represented a large corporate plaintiff in multidistrict litigation where, as a court-appointed member of the plaintiff’s executive committee, he helped secure a $217 million judgment at trial and, ultimately, a $1.5 billion settlement on behalf of U.S. corn farmers. Cases John has led have been featured in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today.