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Amy Laurendeau
Professional Biography
Amy Laurendeau, Managing Partner of O’Melveny’s Newport Beach office, has extensive experience defending class and mass tort actions. She routinely defends pharmaceutical and medical device companies in multi-district litigation and other coordinated proceedings and in high-stakes trials and appeals. She has defended class actions involving prescription and over-the-counter medicines, cosmetics, electronics, automobiles, pet food, and insurance, to name a few.
In addition to her mass tort and class action work, Amy has represented clients across varied industries in complex business litigation matters, ranging from contract disputes, to trade secret violations, to insurance coverage and bad faith claims.
Amy also dedicates significant time to pro bono work, including political asylum and civil rights matters.
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