Nora Z. Naccachian, Associate at our Los Angeles law office
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Nora Z. Naccachian

Associate
Los Angeles
Services
Litigation, Investigations, and Trials
Biography

Nora is a Litigation, Investigations, and Trials associate in Snell & Wilmer’s Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial and business litigation, including disputes arising from commercial agreements and business relationships. She has experience in consumer class actions, product liability and mass tort litigation, and appellate matters. She has represented corporate clients in state and federal courts in California and throughout the United States, has developed litigation strategies, coordinated national defense efforts, and managed substantial case dockets in complex, multi-jurisdictional proceedings.

Nora also has significant experience handling dispositive motions, complex discovery, fact and expert depositions, and appellate briefing. She also has experience defending businesses against consumer protection and privacy claims, including claims arising under California’s consumer protection statutes.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

  • California


Court Admissions

  • Supreme Court of California


Education

  • Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (J.D.)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., Psychology)
Experience

Representative Experience

  • Represented a global consumer products manufacturer in nationwide mass tort product liability litigation, including a federal MDL and coordinated state court proceedings in multiple jurisdictions; served as lead associate for coordinated state court proceedings in two states, overseeing dockets of hundreds of pending cases

  • Coordinated joint-defense strategy among numerous defense firms and attorneys in nationwide mass tort litigation

  • Represented a consumer products manufacturer in appellate matters before a state supreme court concerning the application of a statute of repose to recurring-use consumer products

  • Drafted briefing on behalf of a consumer products manufacturer in coordinated state court proceedings resulting in the dismissal of more than 100 cases for lack of personal jurisdiction

  • Handled discovery, motion practice, and deposition preparation in a federal MDL involving thousands of pending cases

  • Deposed treating physicians and expert witnesses on complex scientific, engineering, and medical causation issues

  • Represented a consumer products company in consumer privacy litigation under a state wiretapping statute, drafting a demurrer on novel statutory interpretation issues, after which the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the action in its entirety

  • Represented a major public utility in complex negligence litigation, overseeing written discovery and drafting dispositive and pretrial motions

  • Represented clients in complex commercial litigation and insurance recovery matters in state and federal courts

The results portrayed were dependent on the facts of that case, and the results will differ if based on different facts.

Previous Professional Experience

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP, Associate
  • Ellis George LLP, Associate
  • Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Associate
  • Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Law Clerk
  • United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, Judicial Extern to the Honorable Barry Russell