O’Melveny Worldwide
  • Representing a major medical device company in motions practice, post-trial briefing, and on appeal of product-liability claims in multiple jurisdictions
  • Representing a top entertainment company in constitutional and commercial litigation
  • Representing a leading banking institution in retrial of fraud action
  • Representing consumer-product company in multi-state suite of putative class actions
  • Representing medical device and pharmaceutical companies in federal multi-district litigation, coordinated state proceedings, multi-plaintiff state proceedings, and state attorney general actions
  • Defending a government-sponsored enterprise in securities class actions and ERISA litigation
  • Defending a major liability insurer in appeal of multi-decade coverage litigation
  • Advising an industrial materials manufacturer on regulatory and litigation exposure

Pro Bono Matters

  • Litigating and arguing an immigration appeal in the Fourth Circuit and United States Supreme Court
  • Litigating and arguing a prisoner civil rights appeal in the Fourth Circuit, leading to a published decision revising district court procedures for supervising similar claims
  • Representing multiple disability rights organizations as amici in the Second Circuit
  • Representing advocacy organizations in constitutional challenges to state laws
  • Obtaining cancellation of removal for a detained permanent resident
  • Advising a not-for-profit health advocacy organization on health information privacy and regulatory compliance obligations
  • Conducting an internal investigation for a non-profit organization
  • Obtaining asylum for a detained adult applicant, and securing derivative asylum for her young child

Languages

  • Spanish

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • California
  • District of Columbia

Court Admissions

  • US District Court for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California
  • US Court of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits
  • US Supreme Court

Education

  • Georgetown University, J.D.: cum laude, Barristers’ Council; Administrative Editor, American Criminal Law Review; Street Law Clinic
  • Stanford University, M.A., Communication
  • Stanford University, B.A., Political Science

Honors & Awards

  • Recommended by The Legal 500 US for State Attorneys General (2024)

Professional Activities

Clerkships

  • Honorable Robert C.  Chambers, US District Court, Southern District of West Virginia 

Author

  • Contributor, Appleseed Foundation, Practitioner Guide, “Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation” (2017)
  • “Jurisdictional Tactics: Will the Courts Allow Plaintiffs to Circumvent CAFA’s Mass Action Provision and Keep Mass Torts in State Courts?” California Litigation Review (2013)