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Experience
Appellate and General Litigation
Employment
Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C., 2005 to date • Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2004-2005
Education
University of Chicago Law School, JD, with high honors, 2004; Order of the Coif; Articles Editor, University of Chicago Law Review • The University of Texas at Austin, BA, with honors, 2001
Admissions
- US Supreme Court, 2010
- US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2009
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2008
- US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2007
- District of Columbia, 2007
- New York, 2006
Publications
- "Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores: En Banc Ninth Circuit Lowers the Bar for Class Certification and Creates Circuit Splits in Approving Largest Class Action Ever Certified," The CPI Antitrust Journal, August 2010
- "The Class Action Fairness Act, five years later," National Law Journal; April 12, 2010
- "California Supreme Court Ruling on UCL Standing Requirement May Open the Floodgates to Frivolous Suits," Bloomberg Law Reports - Class Actions, Vol. 2, No. 7, 2009
- "The Nation’s New Lawsuit Capital? D.C. High Court Eliminates Standing Requirements For Consumer Protection Lawsuits, Threatening Flood Of Abusive Litigation," Mealey's Litigation Report Class Actions, Vol. 9, #20, December 17, 2009
- "Removing the "Fail-Safe" Class Action Under CAFA," Legal Backgrounder, Washington Legal Foundation, November 20, 2009
- "Supreme Court Addresses Volt's Choice-of-Law Trap: Is the End of the Problem in Sight," Dispute Resolution Journal, vol. 64, no. 2 (May-July 2009)
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