Ms. Rochon’s practice focuses on all aspects of commercial litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as in the arbitration context. She has also represented numerous individuals in criminal and SEC investigations.

Ms. Rochon has extensive experience representing pharmaceutical companies in disputes concerning licensing, development and distribution agreements. Her representations include successfully defending a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson against a Robinson-Patman antitrust action brought by one of its distributors before a jury in the Southern District of New York and securing an award of millions on its counterclaims. She also currently represents a pharmaceutical company that designs and develops products for use in the defense against biological warfare agents in a dispute against another major pharmaceutical company regarding the development of an anti-viral drug to combat smallpox.

In addition, Ms. Rochon has litigated numerous false advertising matters. For example, she successfully represented McNeil-PPC, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in obtaining an injunction against Pfizer, Inc.’s widespread advertising that Listerine is “as effective as floss.” See McNeil-PPC, Inc. v. Pfizer, Inc., 351 F. Supp. 2d 226 (S.D.N.Y. 2005). She also successfully represented Procter & Gamble Company and other companies in a false advertising and consumer fraud class action brought on behalf of women and men throughout the country who purchased skin care products advertised as “anti-aging.”

Ms. Rochon has also represented numerous individuals in connection with sensitive and high-profile criminal and SEC investigations, including investigations regarding compliance with rules and regulations promulgated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Ms. Rochon also regularly represents clients in employment matters. She represents a premier global professional services firm in a complex ERISA action brought by one of its former executives for millions in severance benefits. She has also litigated numerous employment discrimination matters, including defending a major international law firm in an action brought by a former employee alleging sexual harassment. A favorable settlement was reached mid-way through the jury trial.

Ms. Rochon’s pro bono efforts have focused on federal constitutional challenges. For example, she prevailed on a habeas corpus challenge on behalf of a criminal defendant whose former defense attorney failed to present evidence of the victim’s prior identification of the perpetrator that dramatically differed from the defendant’s physical characteristics, other than as to his race. She also brought a constitutional challenge against the City of New York alleging unlawful strip searches by police of a family, including a fifteen year old girl, and obtained a favorable settlement for the family. Finally, she submitted amicus briefs in federal appellate courts across the nation challenging the constitutionality of mandatory detention for immigrants with prior criminal convictions.

Ms. Rochon is a member of the firm’s Diversity Committee and Chair of the Women’s Initiative Committee.

J.D., New York University School of Law, 1997

• Note and Comment Development Editor, New York University Law Review

A.B., with distinction, University of Michigan, 1992

Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2000
Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1997 - 1999

New York, 1998

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1999
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1999
U.S. Supreme Court, 2001
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2001
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2001

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