Virginia Milstead

Practice Areas

Virginia F. Milstead has a broad commercial litigation practice, representing clients in both federal and state courts, with a particular emphasis on securities and M&A litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, and related claims. She has represented clients in matters involving federal and state securities laws, duties of corporate directors, civil RICO, unfair business practices, and various other contract and tort claims.

Career

Law Clerk, Hon. Arthur L. Alarcón, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Hon. Florence-Marie Cooper, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California; named 2021 Woman of Influence by Los Angeles Business Journal; professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law

Professional Memberships

Board Member, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles; Co-Chair of the Litigation Section, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA); Board of Regents, Pepperdine University

Personal

J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law, 2004 (summa cum laude, Literary and Citation Editor, Pepperdine Law Review); B.A., Abilene Christian University, 1999 (summa cum laude)

Named a Leader of Influence — Litigators and Trial Attorneys by the Los Angeles Business Journal, which also has selected Ms. Milstead to its lists of leading profes¬sionals who are Thriving in Their 40s and who are Women of Influence. Also recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and Lawdragon’s inaugural list of the 500 Leading Litigators in America. She also received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in 2021.