Helen E. White

Ms. White’s practice focuses on complex and sensitive litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. Most recently, Ms. White represented the State of Washington in a successful challenge to the $24.6 billion proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons and led the team’s trial briefing. Ms. White has drafted dozens of briefs, including dispositive motions, trial briefing, and appeals, spanning both state and federal courts. She has also successfully argued dispositive motions and appeals. She has experience handling antitrust, constitutional, regulatory, complex commercial, and intellectual property disputes. Her writing on constitutional and election law has appeared in Slate, Just Security, Lawfare, Law360 and the Yale Law Journal.

Before joining the firm, Ms. White was a counsel for a democracy and elections non-profit and a litigator in Washington, D.C., at one of the nation’s top law firms. Before entering private practice, Ms. White clerked for Judge David J. Barron of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Randolph D. Moss of the U.S. 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, including class actions, as a member of the Yale Veterans Legal Services Clinic. In law school, she and her partner won the Thurman Arnold Moot Court, for which she won the individual prize for best preliminary round brief. She also received the Israel H. Peres Prize from the faculty for the best note or comment appearing in the Yale Law Journal. She received her undergraduate degree in physics from Bowdoin College, where she was an NCAA varsity athlete.