High-Stakes Civil Litigation, Class Action Defense, Government Investigations, Criminal Defense/Government Misconduct, Securities and Financial Services Litigation, Employment Law
- Practice Overview and Achievements
- Professional and Community Activities
- Honors
- Scholarship
- Bar Admissions
- Education
- Representation of individuals and companies in state and federal, civil and criminal, individual, class actions, and multidistrict litigation, with jury and bench trials
- Successful arbitrations in securities, contract, employment matters
- Obtained pretrial dismissal of state criminal charges
- Obtained judgment of acquittal on federal aggravated identity theft charge
- Won a $10.5 million jury verdict as trial counsel on a “napkin” acquisition contract claim by an executive against a large publicly-traded telecommunications company, in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- Achieved dismissals of putative class and other representative actions involving various legal claims, including securities, employment, and consumer protection claims
- Representation of numerous executives and entities in government investigations, SEC enforcement proceedings, civil and criminal litigations
- American Bar Association
- Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Boston Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Charles River YMCA, Board of Advisors
- Law Clerk, for the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
- Editor, Harvard Law Review
- SuperLawyers, Rising Star
- Managing and Reducing Outside Legal Expenses, New York Law Journal (April 9, 2009)
- “Limitations on Censure Through Adverse Publicity,” Lawyers Weekly
- “No Bad Puns: A Different Approach to Personal Jurisdiction and the Internet,” Harv. L. Rev.
- “Multi-District Litigation: Boon or Bane?,” Boston Bar Association
- Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
- J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 2003
- B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1996