Helen E. White

Prior to joining Munger Tolles, Ms. White was a counsel at Protect Democracy, where she worked on election and executive power cases of national importance, with a focus on practice in the appellate courts. Ms. White is also a former litigator at one of the nation’s top law firms in Washington, D.C., where she represented major multinational corporations in complex appeals and civil litigation. She drafted briefs in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court in disputes concerning constitutional law, statutory interpretation, civil procedure, and intellectual property. Her writing on constitutional and election law has appeared in Slate, Just Security, Lawfare and the Yale Law Journal.

Before entering private practice, Ms. White clerked for Judge David Barron of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Randolph D. Moss of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Ms. White earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she represented veterans and advocacy organizations in complex federal district court litigation as a member of the Yale Veterans Legal Services Clinic. She received her undergraduate degree in physics from Bowdoin College.