Michelle Doolin

Practice Areas

Michelle is chair of Cooley’s elite class action practice and serves as the go-to attorney for retail and consumer product companies facing consumer class actions involving advertising, consumer, privacy, and employment laws. Michelle has defended top companies in 150+ consumer class actions and has obtained success at all stages of litigation. Chambers USA recognized Michelle in Band 1 for commercial litigation, with a client noting, “She’s incredibly knowledgeable, she understands the law, strategic trends and where plaintiff counsel are trying to push these issues.”

Her representative clients include 1Life Healthcare, Ann Inc., BevMo, Condé Nast, Cole Haan, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Fifth Generation, Gap, Google, Guess, J.Crew Group, Jenner Communications, Johnson Health Tech, King Kylie, KKW Beauty, Kylie Jenner Inc., Living Spaces, Nike, Nintendo, Poppi, Provide Commerce, Sony, Swarovski, Talking Rain, The Children’s Place, The TJX Companies, The Yankee Candle Co., Tiffany & Co., Time, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and the University of Southern California.

Michelle represents several Kardashian-Jenner brands, and in 2022 she won a high-profile jury trial in Los Angeles, successfully defending the Kardashian-Jenner family against claims brought by a plaintiff seeking more than $100 million in damages for allegations of defamation and intentional interference with the plaintiff’s E Entertainment Television network talent agreement. Her representation of the Kardashian-Jenner brands includes a diverse range of business disputes, advertising claims and employment disputes.

Career

Michelle’s class action experience includes:

* California class actions brought under the state’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act regarding collection of personal information

* Nationwide and California class actions alleging false and deceptive advertising under California’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Unfair Competition Law, and False Advertising Law

* Nationwide and California class actions alleging product defects and asserting various claims for breach of express, implied, and statutory warranties, as well as false and deceptive advertising and unfair competition

* Class actions alleging violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)

* Privacy litigation, including suits brought under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) and California’s “Shine the Light” law

* Nationwide gift card class actions brought under the federal Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act, as well as federal and state-specific class actions brought under various state gift card laws

* Wage-and-hour class actions brought under federal and state law involving overtime calculation, exempt classification, meal and rest periods, vacation policy, unlawful deductions from wages, and employment applications, as well as federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act and California Private Attorneys General Act actions

* Federal and state class actions brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)