EXPERIENCE

Martha’s representative engagements include:

Litigation

• Serving as trial counsel for Google in the landmark civil antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice and 17 states alleging monopolization of advertising technology;
• Representing the NHL in a civil antitrust matter brought by junior hockey players;
• Defending Amazon in various antitrust class actions and related securities fraud class actions;
• Winning a complete defense verdict for a major law firm of an employment retaliation suit brought by a former employee;
• Winning dismissal in the district court and affirmance in the court of appeals for Pfizer of a reverse-discrimination lawsuit in connection with its early career pipeline program;
• Favorably settling, on the eve of trial, a gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit on behalf of a telecommunications company;
• Favorably settling, on behalf of a professional sports team, an arbitration involving an employment dispute with a coach;
• Favorably settling, on behalf of a major technology company, an arbitration involving an employment dispute with its former senior vice president;
• Serving as a key member of the trial team in defense of Uber in the highest-profile trade secrets case ever taken to trial, resulting in a favorable settlement after four days of trial;
• Defending a major consumer electronics company against fraud, business tort, securities and unfair competition claims asserted in California state court by a former manufacturer and distributor that sought over $1 billion in damages, prevailing on summary judgment against all claims on the eve of trial;
• Representing a global science company in trade secret and breach of non-competition disputes, successfully obtaining a preliminary injunction against a former employee in the non-compete action and favorably settling the trade-secret misappropriation dispute on the eve of trial;
• Winning a complete defense verdict as a member of the trial team representing a leading technology company in a high-profile billion-dollar federal antitrust class action concerning the portable music player industry; and
• Obtaining a historic judgment for college athletes in O’Bannon v. NCAA, resulting in a finding that the NCAA was in violation of the antitrust laws and ordering injunctive relief for NCAA athletes permitting the sharing of name, image and likeness monies.

Congressional investigations 

• Representing a major retail company in testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary;
• Representing a global science company in testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform;
• Representing a social media company in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee; and
• Representing a high-profile former government employee in simultaneous investigations by the Department of Justice, an agency Inspector General and a congressional select committee.

Martha also works to advance the firm’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.  She serves as the Chair of Paul, Weiss’s DC Women’s Network and has participated in Leadership Council on Legal Diversity programming.

Earlier in her career, Martha served as a law clerk to Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and to Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Martha also served as a congressional staffer for the Chair of the House Rules Committee, former U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter.