Ms Whitney Roy > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Whitney Roy
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Work Department
Litigation; Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental
Position
Whitney Jones Roy is a litigation partner in Sheppard Mullin’s Los Angeles office. Whitney was recognized by Law360 as a “Female Powerbroker,” recognized among the Top Women Attorneys in Los Angeles in 2020 by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and named one of the top 100 Women Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal in 2014.
Whitney has experience in all aspects of California and federal civil procedure through trial. She also defends her clients on appeal when necessary.
Business Litigation
Whitney specializes in business litigation. Her experience includes representing companies in a variety of business disputes and against claims of fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, breach of contract, and unfair business practices.
Whitney’s cases have related to a broad spectrum of industries, including oil companies, financial institutions, insurance, real estate, construction equipment, food and beverage, and retail.
Environmental Litigation
Whitney also specializes in complex environmental litigation and related products liability litigation. Her expertise includes the Clean Air Act, CERCLA, RCRA, design defect, failure to warn, negligence, nuisance, and trespass.
Proposition 65 Counseling & Litigation
Whitney counsels companies on compliance with California Prop 65 warning obligations and defends her clients when accused of failing to comply.
Activities
Whitney is the founder of Sheppard Mullin’s Los Angeles Women Lawyers. Whitney also served as the Office Managing Partner for the Los Angeles office of Sheppard Mullin from 2009 to 2017. She is a member of Sheppard Mullin’s Recruiting Committee.
Whitney serves on the Board of Governors for the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.
Whitney has served on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank since 2013 and was elected to Chair of the Board of Directors in December 2019.
Memberships
Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Women’s Law Association of Los Angeles
Member, California Women Lawyers
Member, National Association of Women Lawyers
Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers
Alumnus, Leadership California – Class of 2005
Education
J.D., University of Southern California, 2000,
• 1999 Champion of the USC’s Hale Moot Court Honors Program
• 2000 Outstanding Oralist at Brooklyn Law School’s Jerome Prince Evidence Moot Court Competition
• Worked for noted Professor Charles Whitebread as a teaching and research assistant
• Staff member for the Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies
B.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997, cum laude
B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997, cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Environment > Environment: litigation
The team at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is known for its ability to navigate a full spread of environmental issues relating to soil and groundwater contamination, land use, hazardous waste and water and air quality. The group is led from Los Angeles by Jeffrey Parker, who predominantly handles product liability cases, and Whitney Roy, who is a name to note for tort litigation. In San Francisco, Nicholas Van Aelstyn’s wide practice encompasses cost recovery actions and regulatory enforcement actions, regularly handling a range of Superfund and contaminated sites matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Real estate > Real estate finance