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Amy L. Brown
Partner
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Amy L. Brown heads Squire Sanders Class Actions Practice Group and is the leader of the Washington DC litigation team. Amy focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and has extensive experience in financial services litigation, consumer and commercial arbitrations, class actions and MDL proceedings. She has participated in all aspects of representing consumer financial service providers and insurance companies in class action lawsuits. Amy has argued in front of various state and federal trial courts and courts of appeal.
Amy is the author of “Class Actions 101: Overdraft Fee Litigation: The Only Certainty is that Nothing is Certain” published in the Spring 2011 issue of CADS Report, an American Bar Association publication. She is co-author of “Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire: Class Arbitration From the Defense Perspective” and spoke on “Classwide Arbitration: Fiction, Reality Or Nightmare?” at the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section’s 2007 conference, “The Future of Class Action Litigation in America.”
Amy is a member of the American, Virginia and District of Columbia Bar Associations.Amy is a member of the American, Virginia and District of Columbia Bar Associations.
Szakmai tapasztalat
- Representing a major US retailer of pet food in a MDL proceeding, as well as other federal and state court actions, arising out of the melamine pet food recall of 2007.
- Defeating class certification in a case against a consumer financial service provider alleging claims of usury and fraud and violations of RICO, TILA and a state unfair trade practices statute.
- Defeating class certification of a putative nationwide class alleging fraud in the sale of life insurance policies.
- Representing consumer financial service providers in federal and state court class action lawsuits pending across the country and successfully compelling individual arbitration in several lawsuits.
- Representing a financial services company in a representative action in California filed by a government authority challenging a company’s operations as unfair business practices.
- Obtaining the dismissal of a client from an insurance brokerage MDL alleging violations of federal and state antitrust laws and RICO.
- Providing counsel in a landmark arbitration case decided favorably by the United States Supreme Court including arguing the case before the Florida Supreme Court.
- Representing the Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Enron bankruptcy.
- Representing terminated dealers in the Chrysler bankruptcy.
- Representing a major municipality in a multiparty lawsuit alleging contamination of the water supply.
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Egyetemi végzettség
Duke University, J.D., 1994Stanford University, A.B., with honors, with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, 1991
Admissions
District of Columbia,
1996
Virginia,
1994
U.S. Dist. Ct., E. Dist. of Virginia
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Ct. of App., Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Ct. of App., Sixth Circuit
U.S. Ct. of App., District of Columbia Circuit
U.S. Dist. Ct., E. Dist. of Michigan
U.S. Dist. Ct., Dist. of Maryland
U.S. Dist. Ct., Dist. of Columbia
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