Helen is a litigator practicing in the area of commercial disputes, including business-on-business contract disputes, as well as defense of consumer claims and product liability matters.  Helen has represented multiple tech clients in the defense of putative class actions involving data privacy claims.  Additionally, Helen regularly defends financial institutions against individual lawsuits involving claims of negligence, misrepresentation, fraud, breach of contract, and elder abuse, as well as statutory claims involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and California’s Unfair Competition Law, to name a few.  She has also handled real estate litigation, both in the landlord/tenant and construction context.  And Helen has defended both tech and automotive clients against suits alleging violation of consumer protection and unfair business practices statutes in both California and Missouri.

In her product liability practice, Helen’s cases have ranged from mass actions involving pharmaceutical products, to complex environmental toxic tort cases, to high-dollar individual personal injury or wrongful death suits.  Helen has represented manufacturers of electrical chemicals, herbicides, pharmaceutical drugs and devices, hair dye, child safety seats, batteries, industrial component parts, and more.  She has also defended automotive-rental companies in personal injury actions in multiple jurisdictions, and has counseled a leading tech company relating to automotive issues.

During law school, in addition to serving as a summer associate with the firm in 2013, Helen also served as a senior editor of the Washington University Law Review and interned at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.  Helen began her practice in BCLP’s St. Louis office, and has practiced in its San Francisco office since 2019.