Lindsay Moilanen is an Associate in the Complex Commercial Litigation Department of the firm’s New York office. Ms. Moilanen focuses her practice on general litigation, and has experience in a variety of intellectual property, products liability, estate and commercial litigation matters. Ms. Moilanen has played a key role in all phases of the litigation process, including motion practice, discovery, and deposition and trial preparation.
In her pro bono practice, Ms. Moilanen has successfully represented clients in asylum and social security benefits proceedings, and has spent time helping the New York City Law Department defend Section 1983 claims brought against police and corrections officers. She has also been involved in a death penalty appeal of an Alabama prisoner since her time as a summer associate at Kaye Scholer. Since December 2010, Ms. Moilanen has been involved with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund’s Name Change Project, assisting indigent transgender persons obtain legal name changes. She has recently been appointed to the firm’s Pro Bono Committee.
Ms. Moilanen currently serves as secretary of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Young Lawyers Committee.
Ms. Moilanen graduated, magna cum lauade, from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she served as a Notes Editor of the Journal of International Law and received Honors recognition for her legal writing. She received her Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she studied international relations and business.