Biography
Chantale is consistently recognized as one of the country’s most effective litigators, including by Chambers USA, The American Lawyer, Law360, Benchmark Litigation, and The National Law Journal, which has recognized her as a “Winning Litigator.” She is consistently ranked by Lawdragon among the “500 Leading Litigators in America,” “500 Leading Global Litigators,” and “500 Leading Lawyers in America.” She has also been named by Forbes as one of the 250 “Top Lawyers” in America. In addition to her client representations and case outcomes, she is consistently recognized for her global leadership, including by organizations like Corporate Counsel and The National Law Journal, which recognized her as “Managing Partner of the Year.”
Chantale represents corporate clients in complex commercial disputes, including in antitrust litigation, consumer class actions, and contractual disputes. She has successfully tried cases involving merger enforcement, products liability, and private breach of contract claims. She also represents clients—including energy, tech, and financial services clients—in putative class actions involving antitrust or consumer deception claims.
Chantale’s recent representative engagements include:- Lead trial counsel for Kroger in Delaware Chancery Court litigation against Albertsons relating to failed $25 billion merger;
- Co-lead counsel for Duke Energy in antitrust litigation relating to alleged wage suppression in nuclear power industry;
- Lead counsel for national pipeline company in putative class action alleging market manipulation relating to energy supply during historic winter storm;
- Trial counsel for multiple global technology companies in successive challenges to proposed mergers by the FTC;
- Lead counsel for defendant in three securities class actions relating to alleged false disclosures relating to failed merger;
- Lead counsel for Iron Mountain in putative class actions challenging corporate business practices;
- Co-lead trial counsel to PepsiCo in arbitration relating to alleged breach of contract claims;
- Co-lead trial counsel to pharmacy defendant in bellwether opioid litigation, and lead strategic counsel on resolution of hundreds of class actions relating to opioid liability for national retailer;
- Lead trial counsel to defendant alleged to have engaged in RICO conspiracy in financial services industry.
Chantale previously served as an AUSA in Detroit, and clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami. She received her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Virginia, and her law degree from Stanford Law School, where she was an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. She has taught the advanced class action seminar as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and writes and speaks frequently on topics relating to class action defense, complex litigation in the federal judicial system, and trial advocacy.