Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation

Geoffrey Wyatt is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Geoff represents clients in product liability, class action, and False Claims Act litigation, with extensive experience at both the trial and appellate levels. He defends companies as part of a team that focuses on global litigation strategy, trial, and law and motions practice in complex proceedings in federal and state courts. He has represented an array of companies in proceedings involving medical, industrial and consumer products.

Geoff’s experience spans a range of different cases. He has extensive litigation experience in state and federal courts, including courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Geoff has been successful in securing appellate victories in several cases for his clients, including at the interlocutory stage, often establishing new precedents that bear favorably on related cases in ongoing proceedings.

Geoff also has extensive experience handling expert motion issues. He has developed strategies for defeating highly complex but speculative and unscientific theories and disrupting mass proceedings. He also has worked with defense experts to develop reports and prepare for depositions in order to implement those strategies, taking a lead role in motion practice concerning the admissibility of expert testimony.

Geoff has participated in the day-to-day management of multidistrict proceedings encompassing tens of thousands of cases. He has represented clients in several bellwether mass tort personal injury trials. He has also defended against several civil enforcement proceedings brought by various governments under consumer-protection and Medicaid-fraud laws, among others.

Geoff publishes frequently on matters relevant to his practice, including on issues relating to multidistrict litigation and class action procedure, among other things. He has been named as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA since 2021. In 2013, he received the Burton Award for Legal Achievement, which recognizes excellence in legal scholarship.