Honor Costello is a partner in Crowell & Moring's New York office. Her practice focuses on litigating complex health care, antitrust, intellectual property, and commercial disputes, including class actions and multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings. She has represented insurers, reinsurers, managed care organizations, financial institutions, and pharmaceutical companies in state and federal litigations and arbitrations.
Recent matters include:
- Defending eight health insurance companies in national and statewide class actions asserting antitrust claims.
- Defending health insurer in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) litigation.
- Representing a medical school in litigation relating to breach of a patent license agreement.
- Representing a major pharmaceutical company in Hatch-Waxman litigation involving generic drugs.
- Representing a U.S. reinsurance company in litigations relating to underlying asbestos and environmental losses.
- Representing a leading marketing and communications agency in a dispute with former employees regarding violation of nonsolicitation covenants and misappropriation of trade secrets.
Honor received her J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2011. While in law school, she served as a managing editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. She also served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Charles J. Siragusa, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. Honor graduated cum laude from Wellesley College with a B.A. in English.
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Admitted to practice: Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, New Jersey
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