Amy Gordon

Associate

Amy Gordon is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Mass Torts & Product Liability, Privacy & Cybersecurity and White Collar Defense & Investigations groups. Her practice encompasses a range of complex civil and commercial litigation matters across a range of industries, including financial services, consumer products and telecommunications. Amy has also advised clients across industries on economic sanctions and asset forfeiture related issues.

Amy has experience with various stages of litigation, including taking and defending depositions, briefing dispositive and discovery motions, coordinating discovery and preparing witnesses for depositions and trial.

Amy maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing clients in litigation to improve housing conditions. In addition, she undertook a five-month secondment while at the Firm, where she worked for the City of New York in the General Litigation Unit.

Amy earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was a Cybersecurity Graduate Fellow and served as Chief Notes Editor for The Review of Litigation. During law school, Amy interned for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

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Sheep’s Clothing: Court Dismisses Lawsuit Over Allbirds’ Carbon Footprint and Animal Welfare Claims

Judge Cathy Seibel of the Southern District of New York recently dismissed a putative class action lawsuit challenging various environmental impact and animal welfare claims made by Allbirds in ads for its wool shoes. In doing so, the court determined that plaintiff’s allegations, which largely consisted of criticisms of the wool industry in general, did … Continue Reading

On Notice: Unsubstantiated or Unrepresentative Testimonials

By Baldassare Vinti, Jennifer Yang and Amy Gordon on January 12, 2022 Posted in Deceptive Trade Practices, FTC

Continuing our “On Notice” series about the FTC’s Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Endorsements, we address the FTC’s prohibition against using testimonials to (1) make or imply unsubstantiated or otherwise deceptive performance claims even if such testimonials genuinely reflect the endorser’s own experience, and (2) misrepresent explicitly or implicitly that the experience described by endorsers … Continue Reading

Court Considers FTC’s Ability to Seek Monetary Relief Post-AMG

By Lawrence Weinstein, Jennifer Yang and Amy Gordon on August 5, 2021 Posted in Deceptive Trade Practices, Regulatory

Earlier this year, we blogged about the Supreme Court’s decision in AMG v. FTC, which significantly curtailed the FTC’s ability to seek monetary restitution under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act. One quick update there: The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to restore the FTC’s Section 13(b) disgorgement powers. For now, though, in the … Continue Reading