Martha A.
Leibell

Senior Counsel

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Martha Leibell
  • Profile
  • Experience
  • Credentials

Martha is a skilled litigator with extensive experience in a variety of complex litigation settings, including class actions and multidistrict litigation.  Her experience includes product liability, consumer fraud, insurance, breach of contract, financial services, and intellectual property disputes. 

Martha manages all aspects of discovery in litigation for Fortune 500 companies and works with clients to develop defensible eDiscovery strategies and processes for high-stakes matters.  She conducts custodian interviews to identify relevant sources of data and information, prepares key witnesses for depositions, takes and defends expert, fact, and 30(b)(6) depositions, crafts discovery requests, and negotiates discovery protocols with opposing counsel as well as handles motions practice addressing discovery issues.  Martha leverages her many years of trial experience and deep understanding of the Information Law space to provide clients with thoughtful, tailored, and practical legal strategies.

Prior to joining Redgrave, Martha was a senior litigation associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and a litigation associate at Mayer Brown LLP.  She also spent five years in government service as a chief law clerk to the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Honorable K. Michael Moore, then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.  During her clerkship with the Honorable K. Michael Moore, Martha co-authored “Fast Times in Federal Court and the Need for Flexibility,” 86 Fordham L. Rev. 1681 (2018).

Martha’s work experience includes:

  • Serving as a trial counsel and lead brief writer for a major pharmaceutical client in numerous high-profile opioid trials in state and federal courts nationwide
  • Overseeing expert discovery in opioid litigation in state and federal courts, including preparing expert reports and expert witnesses for deposition and trial
  • Representing a global pharmaceutical manufacturer in multidistrict litigation involving product liability claims
  • Representing a multinational manufacturer in arbitrations involving high-stakes breach of contract disputes and overseeing all aspects of eDiscovery
  • Defending a brand name clothing retailer in Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act litigation
  • Obtaining the dismissal of FDCPA claims against a large financial institution client and affirmance by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Overseeing all aspects of fact and expert discovery in a high-stakes breach of contract matter in a District of Idaho matter
  • Representing large financial institutions in RMBS litigation pending in several jurisdictions arising out of their role as securitization trustee, which included managing large-scale review, collection, and production workflows; developing ESI protocols and protective orders; preparing and reviewing privilege logs; and briefing and arguing issues relating to complex discovery issues
  • Successfully appealing a discharge characterization for U.S. Navy veteran and obtaining a characterization upgrade in pro bono representation

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D. (2010)
  • Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, B.S. (2006)

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • Florida

Martha's District of Columbia application to practice is pending, and until approved, she is supervised by District of Columbia Firm Partners.

Memberships

  • Member, Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network
  • Member, Fordham Law Alumni Association
  • Member, Federal Bar Association South Florida Chapter
  • Member, Federal Bar Council Second Circuit

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers, Ones to Watch, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions (2020 – 2022)