Biography
Claire represents corporate clients in a wide range of high-stakes litigation matters nationwide, including class actions, consumer deception and products liability claims, contractual disputes and business torts, and appellate and constitutional litigation. She represents clients through all stages of litigation, including trial and appeal, with a particular focus on motions practice and global legal strategy. Her experience spans a variety of industries, including the food and beverage, consumer products, transportation, energy, healthcare, financial services, and media sectors. She has secured substantial victories at the trial and appellate levels in an array of cases. Claire also counsels clients on environmental, social, and governance commitments and marketing, and defends against claims challenging alleged “greenwashing.”
Some of Claire’s recent experience includes*:
- Representing global food and beverage companies in numerous class actions alleging consumer fraud and deception
- Representing a leading consumer products company in complex, multi-defendant litigations around the country seeking to impose public nuisance liability for plastic litter
- Representing global food and beverage companies in complex litigation matters challenging supply chain practices and product labeling
- Representing a major energy company in complex, multi-defendant litigation challenging natural gas sales practices during a severe winter weather event
- Representing a leading railroad in privacy litigation, including overturning a substantial award following a jury trial and securing a new trial on damages
- Representing a global tire manufacturer in multi-district antitrust litigation alleging a price-fixing conspiracy among the major tire companies
- Representing a global food and beverage company in arbitration and related litigation involving breach of an exclusive beverage distribution agreement
- Representing an Episcopal church diocese in federal appellate litigation involving the First Amendment and church property disputes
- Representing a third-party administrator for a leading health insurer in an ERISA class action challenging coverage guidelines for behavioral health care
- Representing a trade association in the successful defeat of a petition for review of agency action in the D.C. Circuit
- Representing a major pulp and paper manufacturer in a class action mass tort trial in federal court, resulting in a unanimous jury verdict for the defense affirmed on appeal by the Eleventh Circuit
Claire also has an active pro bono practice. Her experience includes serving as court-appointed pro bono appellate counsel in federal court, serving on a team representing the petitioner in U.S. Supreme Court litigation involving the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, developing resources for war crimes prosecution and documentation in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and partnering with the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland as co-counsel during the sentencing and appellate phases of a criminal False Claims Act matter. The Federal Defender’s office named Claire and her team “Pro Bono Partner of the Year” for their efforts on this case.
Prior to joining Weil, Claire worked at another global law firm and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Timothy M. Tymkovich, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado. Claire earned her law degree from Stanford Law School, where she was a Senior Editor of the Stanford Law Review and a Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law. During law school, she studied abroad in the Master of Economic Law program at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in Paris, France, where she completed legal coursework in French. She also interned with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2012, Claire graduated summa cum laude from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and International Comparative Studies.
Claire is proficient in French.
* includes matters handled prior to joining Weil