Milli Kanani Hansen

Ms. Hansen has extensive experience overseeing pretrial discovery, including advising clients on discovery strategy, negotiating with opposing counsel, discovery motions, affirmative discovery, and factual investigation and development. She has also prepared witnesses for depositions and worked with experts to challenge plaintiffs’ scientific or economic theories.

In addition, Ms. Hansen has represented manufacturers facing purported class actions at both the trial and appellate levels. In this capacity, she has drafted motions on dispositive issues, class certification, expert admissibility and discovery disputes.

Ms. Hansen also has substantial experience representing companies — and their executives and employees — in government investigations and enforcement proceedings. Matters in which she has been involved include:

• representing a manufacturer of building products in multiple purported consumer class actions
• defending a pharmaceutical company in state attorneys general enforcement actions and consumer class actions
• representing a professional sports league in connection with personal injury claims brought by former and current athletes
• defending a medical device manufacturer in multidistrict and state court litigation
• defending a former senior executive at a multinational corporation in connection with charges brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• representing corporate employees in connection with parallel civil and criminal investigations initiated by the Department of Justice

Ms. Hansen also is committed to providing pro bono assistance to indigent individuals. She has assisted a victim of domestic violence seeking child custody, represented a 4-year-old child as a guardian ad litem in a custody dispute and served as counsel for a group of tenants seeking abatement of housing code violations.

In recognition of her work, she was named one of Best Lawyers’ Ones To Watch in America.