Consuelo A. Kendall is an associate in the Litigation Department of Weil's Washington, DC office specializing in complex commercial litigation. Ms. Kendall has participated in all stages of litigation and has been involved in defending national and international corporations in actions concerning breach of contract, the Federal Shipping Act of 1984, bankruptcy, and shareholder derivative suits. In addition to her experience in complex commercial litigation, Ms. Kendall has been part of teams advising and counseling national and international companies on federal antitrust merger reviews and investigations. She has experience in a wide range of industries including technology, medical devices, financial services, media and entertainment, gaming, and manufacturing.
Ms. Kendall is actively involved in pro bono work at the firm. She was part of a team defending a non-profit organization in a False Claims Act action concerning the alleged mismanagement of federal, state, and local grants for after-school educational programs in New York City. Ms. Kendall also assisted the Legal Aid Society's Prisoner's Rights Project in defending a potential action by the City of New York to terminate the class action injunction in Fisher v. Koehler, which requires measures to be taken by the Department of Correction to reduce staff-inmate and inmate-inmate violence at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island.
Ms. Kendall joined the firm in 2007 as a summer associate in the New York office. She received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 2008, where she was a Senior Articles Editor for the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal and participated in the Institute for Public Representation's civil rights clinic. While at Georgetown, Ms. Kendall served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Alexander Williams, Jr., U.S. District Court of Maryland, Southern Division and as a research assistant for Professor Charles F. Abernathy. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2003 with a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in African and African-American Studies.