Kari L. Sutherland

Kari is a trial attorney and has defended some of the world’s largest manufacturers in courtrooms across the country. She recently served as lead and co-lead trial counsel for Monsanto in Roundup cases in California and Missouri. In 2022, she served as lead trial counsel for Johnson & Johnson in Arizona and Arkansas, winning defense verdicts in both pelvic mesh product liability trials. Between those two trial wins, she served as trial counsel in Mississippi in a balloon implant products case involving serious injuries and again secured a defense verdict. Her other product liability defense verdicts include those resulting from trials in California, Illinois, and Louisiana. In late 2024, she was trial counsel in a school vehicular death case that resolved for her client the day before trial. The remaining defendant sought to hire her for trial starting the next day.