Overview
Colette Connor focuses on complex civil trials. The cases she has tried, and prepared for trial, have covered diverse industries and a range of legal issues, including alleged antitrust violations and securities fraud. Most recently, Colette served as trial counsel for Google in antitrust litigation brought by the Department of Justice and various State Attorneys General regarding alleged monopolization of online search and search advertising markets.
Colette has significant experience handling bet-the-company litigation, having defended numerous corporations and law firms in high-stakes cases. In all of her matters, Colette brings her trial mindset to bear in developing the factual record effectively and efficiently, and then distilling and presenting that record—whether in dispositive motions, mediation, or trial—in a clear, understandable, and persuasive manner. She also brings to each of her matters her substantial experience leading teams.
Colette is from just outside Atlantic City, New Jersey. She received her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia and her JD from Harvard Law School. Before joining Williams & Connolly, Colette served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephanie K. Seymour of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her spouse and two toddlers.