Sheila is co-head of Skadden, Arps Complex Mass Tort and Insurance Group nationwide. Prior to becoming a Skadden, Arps partner, she served as counsel to the firm while she was a Professor of Law and Associate Dean at New York University School of Law. Sheila has been national counsel or lead defense counsel for numerous Fortune 500 companies in some of the largest and most complicated tort cases in the country. She has successfully argued two cases in the United States Supreme Court and was appointed by Chief Judge Rehnquist to serve as a member of the Court's Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedures. Sheila was selected by The National Law Journal as one of the 100 most outstanding members of the legal profession, has been named by Fortune as one of the 50 most powerful women in American business, and by Crain's New York Business as one of the 75 most influential women in business and one of the 50 most powerful women in New York City.