Noah Kaitin represents companies, institutions, and individuals in complex litigation, arbitration, and other high-stakes disputes. He works across the firm’s commercial litigation, securities litigation, investigations and enforcement, intellectual property, and strategic response matters. His practice includes contract and commercial disputes, discovery-intensive civil litigation, investigations, sensitive trade secrets and copyright matters, and strategic counseling on regulatory, legislative, and litigation risks.

His recent matters include litigation and investigations for major financial institutions, stockholder and derivative disputes, whistleblower matters, cross-border discovery proceedings, trademark and false-endorsement disputes, and arbitration and other business disputes involving technology, life sciences, insurance, and financial services.

Noah maintains an active pro bono practice. As part of a WilmerHale team, he represented a survivor of sex trafficking in litigation against a residential-services provider and related defendants arising from failures to protect her while she was a minor. He also mentors aspiring appellate lawyers through The Appellate Project, teaches in Discovering Justice’s mock trial program for middle school students, and volunteers through the firm’s housing court clinic.

Before joining WilmerHale, Noah clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Barbadoro of the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire and the Honorable Jeffrey R. Howard of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. During law school, he worked for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Before attending law school, he worked as a Teach For America corps member in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and later as a public school administrator in New York City.

Experience

  • Represented major financial institutions in litigation, investigations, and discovery matters involving AML and KYC processes, suspicious-activity monitoring, and related compliance issues
  • Defended a public company in a securities class action, including motion-to-dismiss briefing challenging disclosures and related-party transactions under the PSLRA
  • Represented companies and boards in Delaware stockholder disputes, including responses to books-and-records demands under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law and derivative matters
  • Represented a large financial institution in connection with a Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower complaint involving internal audit and compliance issues
  • Represented a company in a proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 seeking discovery in aid of contemplated foreign litigation, including briefing and hearing materials
  • Represented a financial services company in disputes involving trademark use, false endorsement, and unauthorized access to customer account information
  • Advised a life sciences company on contract and confidentiality disputes, including arbitration-related strategy arising from a research collaboration dispute
  • Represented life insurers and financial-services companies in putative class actions involving insurance and annuity products, including venue and discovery issues
  • Represented a non-party in responding to a Rule 45 subpoena in securities litigation
  • Represented a survivor of sex trafficking in pro bono litigation against a residential-services provider and related defendants, including taking and defending multiple depositions and briefing and arguing discovery and dispositive motions in court

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2019

    • BS, Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2013

  • Admissions

    • Massachusetts

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Paul J. Barbadoro, US District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 2021 - 2022

    • The Hon. Jeffrey R. Howard, US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2020 - 2021

Credentials

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