Cozen O’Connor secured a decisive victory for a prominent climate scientist, Dr. Michael Mann, in a long-running defamation claim against an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and a TV/radio personality who wrote for the National Review. Following a four-week jury trial, Dr. Mann was awarded over $1 million in punitive damages by a jury in the District of Columbia Superior Court.
PHILADELPHIA, November 23, 2021 — Cozen O'Connor is pleased to announce that Gina Maisto Smith, chair of the firm's Institutional Response Group, and Amorie Hummel .