Noah Kaitin

Noah has experience representing clients in commercial litigation, securities litigation, investigations and enforcement, intellectual property, and strategic response matters. His practice includes contract and commercial disputes, discovery-intensive civil litigation, investigations, sensitive trade secrets and copyright matters, and strategic counseling on regulatory, legislative, and litigation risks.

His recent matters include litigation and investigations for major financial institutions, stockholder and derivative disputes, whistleblower matters, cross-border discovery proceedings, trademark and false-endorsement disputes, and arbitration and other business disputes involving technology, life sciences, insurance, and financial services.

Noah also maintains an active pro bono practice. He previously represented a survivor of sex trafficking in litigation against a residential-services provider and related defendants arising from failures to protect her while she was a minor. He has also recently represented the ACLU of Tennessee in federal proceedings to enforce the 1978 Kendrick Consent Decree, a longstanding order protecting First Amendment activity in Memphis.

Noah clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Barbadoro of the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire and the Honorable Jeffrey R. Howard of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. During law school, he worked for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Before attending law school, he worked as a Teach For America corps member in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and later as a public school administrator in New York City.

Noah’s notable experience includes*:

• Represented major financial institutions in litigation, investigations, and discovery matters involving AML and KYC processes, suspicious-activity monitoring, and related compliance issues
• Represented a large technology company regarding theft of confidential trade secrets
• Defended a public company in a securities class action, including motion-to-dismiss briefing challenging disclosures and related-party transactions under the PSLRA
• Represented companies and boards in Delaware stockholder disputes, including responses to books-and-records demands under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law and derivative matters
• Represented a large financial institution in connection with a Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower complaint involving internal audit and compliance issues
• Represented a company in a proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 seeking discovery in aid of contemplated foreign litigation
• Represented a financial services company in disputes involving trademark use, false endorsement, and unauthorized access to customer account information
• Advised a life sciences company on contract and confidentiality disputes regarding a research collaboration dispute
• Represented life insurers and financial-services companies in putative class actions involving insurance and annuity products
• Represented a non-party in responding to a Rule 45 subpoena in securities litigation
• Represented the ACLU of Tennessee in litigation concerning alleged violations of a longstanding consent decree protecting First Amendment activity and arising from the City of Memphis’s response to a public protest
• Represented a survivor of sex trafficking in pro bono litigation against a residential-services provider and related defendants

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Weil

Before joining Weil, Noah was a litigation associate at another major global law firm.