Practice Focus

Litigation

Nancy Milburn is a partner in the New York office where she practices in the area of complex civil litigation. She has represented clients in product liability, mass tort and consumer protection matters, including class actions, individual actions, and government public nuisance actions. She has also handled complex commercial tort and business litigation, and bankruptcy litigation.

From 1987 to 2000, Ms. Milburn served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York. She worked in the Civil Division of the US Attorney's Office where she tried numerous civil jury and nonjury cases. She was Chief of the Tax Unit, in which capacity she handled several major Chapter 11 proceedings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. She served as Deputy Chief of the Civil Division from 1992-2000.

Representative Matters

• Member of trial team that won a favorable jury verdict in State of Rhode Island v. Atlantic Richfield Company, et al., a lead pigment public nuisance suit filed by the Rhode Island Attorney General
• Member of team that represented Atlantic Richfield Company in a lead pigment suit brought by a state-wide class of Maryland property owners
• Represents corporation in multidistrict litigation alleging violation of state consumer protection statutes based on sales of gasoline at retail on a non temperature compensated basis
• Represented New York and California restaurant associations in challenges to the constitutionality of menu labeling ordinances that require chain restaurants to post calorie information on menus and menu boards.