Rachel Smith

Rachel joined Bartlit Beck in 2025 following clerkships with Judge Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit and Judge Maxine Chesney of the Northern District of California. Rachel is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.

Representative Matters

Opioids Litigation
Member of the trial team in Florida Health Sciences Center, et al. v. CVS, et al. (Broward County Circuit Court, 2025), a 50-day trial in which 26 Florida hospitals sought more than $1.5 billion in damages before trebling. After 14 days of jury deliberations, the court declared a mistrial. Following the mistrial, the court granted defendants’ renewed motion for directed verdict and entered final judgment in favor of the defendants.