Yelena W. Dewald

Associate
Washington, DC

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Experience

Yelena’s work focuses on antitrust and environmental litigation. Yelena earned her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

Prior to joining the firm, Yelena served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Salvador Mendoza Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington and as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Autumn D. Spaeth in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Before clerking, Yelena was a fellow with a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the environment and consumers.

- In re Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation – Represents a class of app developers that sold apps or in-app products via the Google Play store. The developers allege that Google has abused its market power to exclude competing app stores from Android phones, stifling innovation and consumer choice, and resulting in a supracompetitive default 30% transaction fee.
- In re Automatic Card Shufflers Litigation. – Represents a class of casino operators that purchased automated deck shufflers at an artificially high price because of defendants’ monopolization of the market. Plaintiffs allege defendants monopolized the market for automated card shufflers through abuse of the patent system and judicial process to exclude and drive out competitors.
- Suffolk County Water Authority v. The Dow Chemical Company et al. – Member of the case team representing the largest public water supplier in the country against the manufacturers and distributors of products containing toxic chemicals for contamination of the local public drinking water.
- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection et al. v. Ford Motor Company et al. – Serves as Special Counsel to the New Jersey Attorney General in an environmental justice suit against Ford Motor Company seeking natural resource damages related to environmental pollution near the company’s Mahwah, NJ plant. The State alleges that Ford polluted an area that includes the homeland of a Native American tribe and later concealed the extent of the contamination from subsequent property owners and regulators (as depicted in the HBO documentary Mann V. Ford).

Yelena W. Dewald

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Indirect purchaser class actions after the 9th Circuit Stromberg v. Qualcomm decision

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