Kelsey Dayton focuses on complex commercial litigation, managing all aspects of a case for a wide variety of clients.
During law school, Ms. Dayton served as a comments editor for The University of Chicago Law Review. A comment she authored was cited in the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, as well as in the concurring opinion, in Kohn v. State Bar of California, 87 F.4th 1021 (9th Cir. 2023) (en banc). Ms. Dayton was also a volunteer for the ACLU of Kentucky conducting legal research related to COVID-19.
Ms. Dayton was a member of the inaugural class of trial fellows at Hueston Hennigan, where she served on the trial team for two trials and one arbitration.
Experience
Obtained a favorable settlement, after two weeks of trial, for the country’s largest integrated health care system in a lawsuit brought by a group of California hospitals seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for emergency medical services provided to its members.
Obtained a sweeping victory for Joshua Abrahams, a former PwC auditor, when the SEC voluntarily dismissed an administrative action charging Abrahams in connection with a Mattel audit that later resulted in a $109 million restatement.
Representing Union Pacific as trial counsel in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Representing Public Service Company of New Mexico and PNM Resources Inc. in litigation arising out of the 2022 McBride Fire.
Representing Sonder Corp., an apartment-hotel company that manages short-term rentals in North America and Europe, in several landlord-tenant disputes across the country.
Represented Amazon.com in a patent infringement dispute concerning cloud computing network and digital rights management.
Insights
- Comment, “Tangled Arms: Modernizing and Harmonizing the Arm-of-the-State Doctrine,” 86 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1603 (2019).