Brittany L. Sukiennik is a partner in Cravath’s Litigation Department. She focuses her practice on complex litigation, including mass torts and other commercial disputes.
Ms. Sukiennik successfully represented Robinhood as lead counsel in the sprawling “meme stock” litigation, which encompassed dozens of lawsuits, including numerous putative class actions, involving antitrust, negligence, contract, securities and various other state and federal claims—securing a series of victories to dismiss or otherwise resolve all claims against the company.
Ms. Sukiennik represents PG&E in connection with mass tort litigation related to the California wildfires between 2019 and 2021. She previously represented the company in numerous lawsuits arising out of the unprecedented 2017 and 2018 California wildfires—one of the largest and most complex sets of mass tort litigation in recent years. She also represented PG&E in its chapter 11 reorganization proceedings—the largest utility bankruptcy in U.S. history—which the company successfully emerged from in 2020.
Ms. Sukiennik also represents Xcel Energy, a major U.S. electricity and natural gas company with operations in eight states, in numerous lawsuits filed against Xcel arising from the December 2021 Marshall Wildfire. She also represents Xcel in multiple actions concerning the February 2024 Texas Panhandle wildfires, which included the Smokehouse Creek Fire. She additionally represents Light & Wonder (formerly Scientific Games Corporation) in putative class action and individual antitrust litigation, and in an arbitration before the American Arbitration Association, involving Walker Process antitrust monopolization claims that concern automatic card shufflers used in casinos.
Ms. Sukiennik maintains an active pro bono practice. Recently, she secured a substantial monetary settlement on behalf of a woman who was sexually assaulted by NYC Department of Correction officers while detained on Rikers Island.
Ms. Sukiennik received a B.A. degree with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 2011, where she was a James Kent Scholar, was awarded the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize and served as the Senior Editor of the Law Review. Ms. Sukiennik joined Cravath in 2011. In 2013, she left to serve as a law clerk to Hon. Cathy Seibel, followed by a clerkship to Hon. Vernon S. Broderick, both of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Sukiennik rejoined Cravath in 2014 and was elected a partner in 2020.
Updated August 2024
