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Helena Alvarez

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Areas of Focus

Overview

Helena Alvarez helps clients meet their legal and business objectives by counseling them on Antitrust & Competition and Mass Tort, Product & Consumer Litigation matters.

Helena supports clients on a wide variety of antitrust and competition issues. Her antitrust and competition representative experience includes civil litigation, investigations, and transactions.

Within her torts practice, Helena assists clients in the pharmaceutical, consumer product, and transportation industries with their regulatory and litigation needs.

Helena maintains an active pro bono practice, primarily handling asylum matters.

Helena received her J.D., cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law. In law school, she was a student attorney in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and on the executive board of the American University Business Law Review. She earned her B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University.

Born and raised in El Salvador, Helena is a native Spanish speaker.

Career & Education

    • American University Washington College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2023
    • Georgetown University, B.S., Foreign Service, 2016
    • American University Washington College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2023
    • Georgetown University, B.S., Foreign Service, 2016

    • District of Columbia
    • District of Columbia

    • Member, ABA Antitrust Law Section, 2024 – Present
    • Member, ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, 2024 – Present
    • Member, ABA Young Lawyers Division, 2024 – Present
    • Board Member and Fundraising Chair, Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), 2022 – Present
    • Member, ABA Antitrust Law Section, 2024 – Present
    • Member, ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, 2024 – Present
    • Member, ABA Young Lawyers Division, 2024 – Present
    • Board Member and Fundraising Chair, Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), 2022 – Present

    • English
    • Spanish (native)
    • French
    • English
    • Spanish (native)
    • French

Helena's Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 12.01.25

FRCP 16.1 Now in Play for MDLs—Game Changer or Not?

Rule 16.1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, titled “Multidistrict Litigation,” takes effect today, December 1, 2025. The adoption of this rule provides a long-awaited framework specific to district courts’ management of MDL proceedings. However, many critics of the new rule are concerned that it does not impose mandatory obligations on MDL courts, and thus lacks the teeth required to establish meaningful change....

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Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 12.01.25

FRCP 16.1 Now in Play for MDLs—Game Changer or Not?

Blog Post | 09.08.25

“Drone & Order” Series: Landmark Proposed Rule May Open U.S. Skies to Expanded Commercial Drone Deployments

Client Alert | 6 min read | 09.02.25

Landmark Proposed Rule May Open American Skies to Expanded Commercial Drone Deployments

Blog Post | 08.28.25

CPSC Acting Chairman Feldman Issues Statement on Continuity of Operations Without a Quorum Days Before Commissioner Dziak Announces Anticipated Departure from the Agency

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Helena's Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 12.01.25

FRCP 16.1 Now in Play for MDLs—Game Changer or Not?

Rule 16.1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, titled “Multidistrict Litigation,” takes effect today, December 1, 2025. The adoption of this rule provides a long-awaited framework specific to district courts’ management of MDL proceedings. However, many critics of the new rule are concerned that it does not impose mandatory obligations on MDL courts, and thus lacks the teeth required to establish meaningful change....

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