Ms. Brown has litigated matters in California and Texas state courts, federal district courts, and federal bankruptcy courts. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and attended the Centro Studi della Boston University in Padova, Italy. At Boalt Hall School of Law, she was a notes & comments editor for the California Law Review and book review editor for the Berkeley Women's Law Review.
Ms. Brown's practice includes representing clients in general business litigation, including contract disputes, business tort litigation, and unfair competition actions. She has also prosecuted and defended class actions and complex litigation, defended employees and employers in employment discrimination matters, and represented both debtors and creditors' committees in bankruptcy litigation. Since 2004, Ms. Brown has represented sex abuse survivors in bankruptcy cases involving the Roman Catholic Church. Ms. Brown was named a Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star every year from 2004 - 2008, and named a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. She is fluent in Italian.
Clerkships
•Law clerk, Judge William M. Hoeveler (S.D. Fla. 1999-2000)
News
•Twenty-One PSZJ Attorneys Named 2020 Southern California “Super Lawyers”
January 15, 2020
•Twenty-One PSZJ Attorneys Named 2019 Southern California “Super Lawyers”
January 30, 2019
•Twenty PSZJ Attorneys Named 2018 Southern California “Super Lawyers”
January 31, 2018
•Pachulski Stang Confirms Major Wins in Archdiocese of Milwaukee Sex Abuse Case
Court Reinstates $60mm Fraud Lawsuit and Takes Case Away From Judge Randa
March 9, 2015
•Federal Religious Freedom Act Not Valid Defense to Bankruptcy Avoiding Actions
January 2013
•Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Emerges From Chapter 11, Sizable Trust Funded for Abuse Survivors
September 2011
•Court Approves Wilmington Diocese Plan
July 29, 2011
•Pachulski Stang Selected to Represent Creditors in Christian Brothers Chapter 11 Cases
May 2011
•Committee of Abuse Survivors Reaches Settlement in Society of Jesus Chapter 11 Case
March 25, 2011
•Bankruptcy Court Rules Large Investment Pool Is Property of Wilmington Diocese Chapter 11 Estate
June 2010
•Pachulski Stang Selected as Committee Counsel in Jesuit Chapter 11
March 2009
•Two Southern California Rising Stars at Pachulski
Los Angeles Magazine, July 2008
•Bankruptcy Judge Rules on Ownership of Property in Catholic Diocese Bankruptcy Case
September 9, 2005
Publicaiton
•E-Discovery Issues
Business Credit, October 2008
Events
•Ethics Conversation With Professor Nancy B. Rapoport
Los Angeles Federal Bar Association 11th Annual Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium
Los Angeles, November 21, 2014
•Business Bankruptcy: Chapter 11 Essentials
A practical skills and strategies program covering what you need to know and how to avoid the traps
Los Angeles, September 18, 2014
•Tenth Annual Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium
Los Angeles Federal Bar Association
Los Angeles, December 13, 2013
