Molly is a trusted advisor to clients facing complex, multi-front consumer-protection disputes that threaten opportunities for future growth and innovation.  She regularly defends the world’s leading technology companies in sprawling class actions, litigation brought by state Attorneys General, and actions brought before administrative courts.  Her work crosses a number of substantive areas of law, including privacy, consumer protection, antitrust, anti-discrimination, the False Claims Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.  She considers her clients true partners, and works closely with them to navigate the substantive and logistical challenges inherent to large-scale litigation.

Molly also represents colleges and universities facing potential consumer protection disputes, ranging from investigations and litigation under the anti-discrimination laws to advocacy before institutional and programmatic accreditors.  

Experience

  • A selection of recent litigation matters include:

    • Representing a major technology company in intersecting class actions alleging that the platform was used to perpetrate various forms of securities fraud.
    • Defending a major technology company in consumer-protection litigation brought by a State Attorney General under the state’s unfair practices law. 
    • Successfully represented a university in appeal proceedings before its programmatic accreditor following an adverse accreditation decision. 
    • Obtained dismissal of anti-discrimination claims against a technology platform in proceedings before an administrative judge. 
    • Won summary judgment following extensive discovery in a monopolization class action brought by users of a major social media platform seeking more than $2 trillion in damages.
    • Secured dismissal of multiple civil RICO class actions filed against a top-tier university arising from the “Varsity Blues” scandal.  
    • Obtained complete dismissal of a COPPA lawsuit against a major technology company.
    • Represented a fintech company owned by a Native American tribe in overlapping consumer class actions alleging civil RICO violations through jurisdictional discovery, appeal, and settlement.

Recognition

Insights & News

Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Harvard Law School, 2013

      cum laude Article and Outreach Editor, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology
    • BA, English Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, 2010

      summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa
  • Admissions

    • District of Columbia

    • Missouri

  • Clerkships

    • US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2013 - 2014

Credentials

Notice

Unless you are an existing client, before communicating with WilmerHale by e-mail (or otherwise), please read the Disclaimer referenced by this link. (The Disclaimer is also accessible from the opening of this website). As noted therein, until you have received from us a written statement that we represent you in a particular manner (an "engagement letter") you should not send to us any confidential information about any such matter. After we have undertaken representation of you concerning a matter, you will be our client, and we may thereafter exchange confidential information freely.

Thank you for your interest in WilmerHale.