A litigator with twenty years of experience, Elizabeth serves as lead appellate counsel for high stakes and complex matters across many of the firm's practice groups, including financial services, insurance, managed health care, environmental/land use, and general business litigation.
An accomplished trial and appellate advocate, Elizabeth's broad experience enables her to assist clients with their litigation needs at all levels. She has handled dozens of appeals nationwide, particularly on the West Coast, where she has represented clients in more than fifty cases in the Ninth Circuit and more than one hundred in the California state appellate courts. She also frequently lends her writing and advocacy skills to litigation teams at the trial level by assisting with issue preservation, and as well as drafting pleadings and briefs in support of dispositive motions, class certification matters, motions in limine, and other mission-critical events in the life of a lawsuit.
With nearly twenty years of litigation experience at all levels of the California and federal court systems, Elizabeth has a particularly deep background in consumer financial services disputes and class action work. Her substantive areas of experience include the Truth in Lending Act, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the California Homeowner's Bill of Rights, California's Rosenthal Act, and various states' UCL/UDAP statutes. She has extensive experience representing loan originators, mortgage servicers, furnishers of credit information, background screening companies, national banks, and other financial institutions. She has also represented business clients in connection with contract claims, business torts, managed health care disputes, privacy-related disputes, and a wide variety of state and federal Constitutional issues.
Elizabeth is a member of the firm's West Coast Recruiting Committee and regularly volunteers as a mentor with The Appellate Project. She also serves as pro bono general counsel to the Board of the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Outside of work, she loves boating, reading, and spending time with her husband and sons at the family ranch on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
02.01.24
Troutman Pepper Publishes 2023 Consumer Financial Services Year in Review and A Look Ahead
Articles + Publications
02.01.24
Troutman Pepper Publishes 2023 Consumer Financial Services Year in Review and A Look Ahead
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
10.20.23
Utah State Court Rejects Claim Based on Debt Collector’s Alleged Failure to Register Under Collection Agency Act
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
06.23.23
Supreme Court Holds That Litigation is Automatically Stayed Pending Appeal of Order Denying Motion to Compel Arbitration
Firm News
05.24.23
Troutman Pepper Attorneys Named to 2022 North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
04.06.23
Utah’s H.B. 20 Signed into Law, Reducing Red Tape for Debt Collection Agencies