Beatrice Franklin represents plaintiffs and defendants around the country in commercial litigation. Her cases span a broad spectrum of practice areas including complex business disputes, energy matters, real estate, antitrust, securities, and financial services. Her work has resulted in successful trial judgments, numerous multimillion-dollar settlements, and defense-side dismissals.
Named a Rising Star of the Plaintiffs’ Bar by National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers (2024), a Rising Star by New York Law Journal (2024), and among Lawdragon’s Next Generation of Leading Lawyers (2023), Ms. Franklin is regularly tapped to take on significant, high-stakes litigation. Among recent wins, Ms. Franklin is part of the co-lead counsel team for a certified class of home sellers asserting antitrust claims relating to residential broker commissions; the class has reached nearly $1 billion in proposed settlements, including a landmark $418 million settlement with the National Association of Realtors. In a long-running commercial real estate dispute, Ms. Franklin won a $36 million post-trial judgment involving a valuable piece of Brooklyn real estate. And just a week before trial in Delaware’s Court of Chancery on her client’s claims that a de-SPAC transaction was heavily undervalued, she secured a favorable settlement on confidential terms.
In addition to her extensive trial court work, Ms. Franklin has substantial appellate experience, having argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York’s First and Second Departments, the Minnesota Supreme Court, and the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Ms. Franklin joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Susan Carney on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Jesse Furman on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize and won Best Oralist and Best Brief in the Harlan Fiske Stone Honors Moot Court competition.
Updated Oct 2024
