- 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)