Biography

Arianna represents corporate clients in a wide range and at all phases of complex commercial litigation. She regularly defends clients in class actions involving allegations of consumer fraud and deception under state and federal law and has secured significant victories at the trial and appellate levels for companies in cases challenging product labeling and marketing as false or misleading. Arianna also advises companies on product labeling and environmental, social, and governance commitments and marketing, and defends against claims challenging conditions and practices in companies’ global supply chains, including allegations of “greenwashing”.
Arianna also has broad experience in the sports industry. She represents professional players associations in investigations and litigation involving issues of player safety and compensation. She has also handled additional sports industry engagements focused on labor and employment claims and sponsorship agreements.*
Some of Arianna’s recent representative engagements include:*
- Representing leading food and beverage companies in over 25 class actions alleging consumer fraud and deception.
- Representing two global food and beverage companies in separate consumer class actions challenging supply chain practices and product labeling.
- Representing a leading consumer products company in complex, multi-defendant litigation seeking to impose public nuisance liability for marine plastic pollution.
- Representing a financial services firm in a suit alleging conspiracy claims under the TVPRA.
- Representing the National Women’s Soccer League Players Association in a landmark investigation into alleged abuse, harassment, and misconduct in women’s soccer.
- Representing the Players Association for the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team as amicus curiae in support of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team in high-profile equal pay litigation brought against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
- Representing several prominent men’s and women’s professional and collegiate Players Associations as amici curiae before the Supreme Court in challenging the NCAA’s amateurism rules as violating the antitrust laws.
- Representing the National Women’s Law Center and Women’s Sports Foundation as amici curiae in support of former college athletes alleging Title IX violations by a university based on sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of a university sports team doctor.
- Representing David Faulkner, who was wrongly convicted of murder, in pro bono litigation that secured a grant of his petition for writ of actual innocence and won his unconditional release from custody after 21 years of confinement.
Arianna was recognized in the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in the areas of mass tort litigation and class actions.
Prior to joining Weil, Arianna worked at another global law firm. From 2016 to 2017, Arianna served as a law clerk to the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and earned her undergraduate degree with honors in Law, Letters, and Society from the University of Chicago.
* includes matters handled prior to joining Weil
Firm News & Announcements, Awards and Recognition, Speaking Engagements, Guides and Resources, Latest Thinking
Firm News & Announcements
- Fourteen Weil Partners Shortlisted for Euromoney's 2023 Women in Business Law Americas Awards Firm Announcement — April 10, 2023
- National Women’s Soccer League Players Association and Weil Announce Release of Report of Joint Investigation into Abuse and Misconduct toward Players Press Release — December 14, 2022
Awards and Recognition
- Arianna Scavetti Recognized as Best Lawyers: One to Watch Honoree Award Brief — Best Lawyers 2023
Speaking Engagements
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Women’s Soccer: Equal Pay, Coaching Misconduct, Age Restrictions, Expansion, and the Lawyer’s Role in it All
Speaker(s):
Arianna Scavetti
May 12, 2023 — Weil Complex Commercial Litigation partner Arianna Scavetti was a panelist discussing professional women’s soccer over the last few years, including equal pay, CBA negotiations, abuse, and expansion at the Sports Lawyers Association’s (SLA) Annual Conference.
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50 years of Title IX – What’s next?
Speaker(s):
Arianna Scavetti
March 23, 2023 — Weil Complex Commercial Litigation partner Arianna Scavetti was a panelist discussing the achievements of Title IX and how law and awareness can be used to lessen the gap between men’s and women’s sports at Penn Law’s 10th Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Society (ESLS) Symposium.
Latest Thinking
- On a ‘Collision Course’: When ESG Efforts Result in Public Nuisance Litigation Publication — National Law Journal — By Drew Tulumello and Arianna Scavetti — PDF — December 07, 2022
- Recent Decision Regarding “Sustainably Sourced” Labeling and Consumer Deception Alert — Class Action Monitor — By Drew Tulumello and Arianna Scavetti — PDF — April 07, 2022
- Spotlight on DOJ’s Cybersecurity Focus Alert — Privacy & Cybersecurity — By Drew Tulumello, Arianna Scavetti and Jason Kleinwaks — PDF — March 15, 2022