Paulette Marie Rodríguez López

Paulette has successfully managed high stakes matters from inception through appeal, including chairing trials and delivering oral arguments in court. She regularly represents clients in antitrust and complex class action litigation, including multidistrict proceedings involving sophisticated fact and expert discovery such antitrust damages modeling and source code review. Paulette has taken and defended depositions of key witnesses, including 30(b)(6) depositions and depositions for c-suite executives, and drafted dozens of briefs for matters proceeding in state and federal courts. Clients and colleagues appreciate her team-oriented and collaborative approach.

Beyond her litigation practice, Paulette is deeply engaged in the legal community. She is a fellow for the American Bar Association Business Law Section and currently serves a vice-director of the Committees and Liaisons Group for the American Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division. She frequently speaks and writes on emerging issues in antitrust and complex litigation. Paulette has served on the editorial board for the ABA Antitrust Section “Quick Look” newsletter for several years.

Paulette maintains a robust pro bono practice, including representing clients in asylum and prisoners’ rights cases. She has been a board member of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia for three years, previously serving as treasurer, and elected as vice president of internal affairs for the 2025-2026 bar year.  Paulette’s legal advocacy skills and her service to the profession has been recognized by the Hispanic National Bar Association with a “Top Lawyers Under Forty” Award.

Paulette earned her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she was managing editor of the Chicanx Latinx Law Review and received honors in both Moot Court and Mock Trial competitions. While at UCLA Law, Paulette also served as a graduate assistant tutor for first-year law students. After law school, Paulette was awarded the UCLA Law Public Interest Fellowship, where she worked with the non-profit the Wage Justice Center to prosecute labor and employment claims on behalf of low-wage workers and the California Labor Commissioner. Given the Wage Justice Center’s focus on satisfying unpaid labor and employment judgments through commercial claims, Paulette litigated dozens of commercial matters including claims such as breach of contract, conversion, fraudulent transfer, shareholder and director’s liability, and creditor’s claims in multi-million-dollar corporate bankruptcies. Following her post-doctoral fellowship, Paulette served as a judicial clerk in the Central District of California.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Paulette is fluent in Spanish. She is admitted into practice in California, the District of Columbia, and Tennessee.