Ms. Reyes’s litigation experience includes mass tort litigation, securities-related and other complex corporate and business litigation, copyright litigation, food and drug law, and general commercial litigation.  She has represented individuals, corporations, and foreign governments in litigation throughout the United States.  These representations have included trying civil cases to jury and bench verdicts, and conducting evidentiary hearings before national and international arbitral tribunals. 

Representative matters include:  representing a manufacturer of yard locomotives in litigation alleging defective design; serving as counsel for a foreign government and its central bank in international bank fraud litigation; representing individuals and corporations in securities-related litigation before the SEC and in federal court; serving as counsel for film industry plaintiffs in a series of lawsuits directed against the proprietors of unauthorized film downloading websites; obtaining a multi-million dollar judgment in a jury trial for a victim of elder fraud; securing dismissal on behalf of a pharmaceutical company of a civil suit challenging a highly-publicized FDA action; and representing a major pharmaceutical company in mass tort litigation.

Ms. Reyes serves on the firm’s pro bono committee.  As part of her pro bono work, she has represented numerous asylum applicants in Immigration Court.  Recently, she successfully argued a high-profile asylum appeal before the Second Circuit.  Her work on behalf of asylum applicants has received recognition for distinction from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights (2004 and 2008) and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (2009).  She also was featured in the Legal Times special section: Champions, Visionaries & Pioneers.  Ms. Reyes was recognized as a Champion for her pro bono efforts and advocacy for civil liberties on behalf of asylum applicants.