Jenny A. Covington

Jenny Covington's practice focuses on the defense of product liability, class action, mass tort, commercial litigation, and intellectual property matters. She has represented well-known medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers in high-profile claims, often involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death. She also has experience defending automotive and consumer product manufacturers. Jenny is a first-chair trial lawyer with significant experience in catastrophic injury product liability trials and has defended numerous appeals.

Notably, Jenny has played a key role in both state and federal MDLs and coordinated proceedings, including bellwether trials. She has also managed several large regional teams in the workup of one of the largest medical device coordinated proceedings in history, as well as serving as the point person for all expert workup in several other coordinated proceedings. She has worked extensively in a virtual law firm model in which the client's defense in multidistrict litigation is coordinated between multiple different firms.

Jenny serves as national counsel for several medical device companies. She has defended Class I, II, and III medical device products such as infusion pumps and related products, implantable cardiac care devices, neurointerventional devices, HA gels, mesh products, light source therapy devices, laser and cryoablation therapy devices, blood product storage units, and cold therapy units, to name a few. Part of her medical device practice also focuses on issues in general causation, specific causation, neuroscience, preemption, and medication administration errors. Jenny’s undergraduate degree in microbiology provides a strong foundation for this work.

Additionally, Jenny represents clients in matters regarding arbitration and mediation, as well as advising clients on how to avoid litigation and minimizing potential risk.

Jenny is admitted to practice in Leech Lake Tribal Court and White Earth Tribal Court.

 

• Pro Bono Service Award, Legal Services Corporation (2024)
• Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
  • Fellow (2020)
• Legal 500, Litigation: Product Liability Defense, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices (2014)
• Minnesota Rising Stars, Super Lawyers Magazine (2010)
• Southern California Rising Stars, Super Lawyers Magazine (2007)

• DRI
  • Social Media Chair, Drug and Medical Device Committee (2014–2021)
• Minnesota Women Lawyers