Catelyn McDonough

Catelyn McDonough joined Anapol Weiss as an Associate Attorney in 2016, after working at the firm as a Law Clerk and attending law school classes in the evening. She was promoted to Partner in 2024. Catelyn focuses her practice on pharmaceutical and medical device mass tort litigation. As an integral member of the firm's Women's Health Litigation Group, she is passionate about advocating for victims of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, which disproportionately affect women. Catelyn began her legal career helping to obtain millions of dollars for the families of victims who contracted mesothelioma from working with asbestos-containing products. She has played an integral role in many significant verdicts and settlements, including a $1 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. unit, finding the company liable for a series of design and manufacturing defects with its Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implants. The following year, Catelyn again joined the trial team for the fourth bellwether trial against J&J and DePuy, resulting in a $247 million plaintiff verdict, marking the third consecutive nine-figure verdict in the multidistrict litigation. Over the course of her career, Catelyn has worked on several multidistrict litigations (MDL): Catelyn has worked closely for many years with Anapol Weiss Shareholder, Tracy Finken Magnotta, and had the honor of serving on the Leadership Development Committee of Zantac MDL.