Layla Husen

Layla assists clients with a wide variety of business litigation matters including regulatory enforcement actions, business disputes, and toxic tort defense.

She has been involved in high-stakes litigation, including class actions and ongoing toxic tort matters, where she has provided essential support in all phases of litigation. She has been a primary brief writer, including obtaining a summary judgment win in a putative class action seeking millions in damages. She also provided crucial jury trial support which assisted in securing a full defense verdict.

Layla is skilled in performing legal research, drafting and reviewing pleadings and other legal documents and supporting case management. She has worked closely with clients, expert witnesses, and fact witnesses at different stages of the litigation process. Layla has supported litigation teams representing professionals, hospitals, government contractors, and other business clients in civil and criminal enforcement actions, False Claims Act lawsuits, and responding to government-issued subpoenas.

During law school, Layla was an extern in the white-collar crime department with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri. Layla received top grades in trial advocacy, evidence, and on her seminar paper analyzing qui tam litigation under the False Claims Act.