Nicole Veno is a Senior Associate in the firm’s New York office focusing on antitrust, consumer protection, and data privacy matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Veno was an Associate at a New York law firm focusing on antitrust and whistleblower matters. There, she litigated a significant qui tam whistleblower action filed under the New York False Claims Act and represented plaintiffs in class action antitrust litigation involving the chicken, tuna, and digital advertising industries.

In 2022 and 2023, Ms. Veno was named an Antitrust Litigation “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Veno’s work on consumer class action cases concerning cosmetics products marketed as “natural” resulted in two favorable appellate-level court decisions and a number of class action settlements:

• • Langan v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Cos. Inc., 897 F.3d 88 (2d Cir. 2018) (holding that a class action plaintiff has Article III standing to represent out of state consumers); 
  • Balser v. Hain Celestial Grp., Inc., 640 F. App’x 694 (9th Cir. 2016) (clarifying pleading standards in a consumer fraud case); 
  • Morales v. Conopco,  dba Unilever, No. 13-cv-02213 (E.D. Cal.) ($3.25 million settlement); Langan v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Cos. Inc., No. 13-cv-01471 (D. Conn.) ($2.4 million settlement); and 
  • Stephenson v. Neutrogena Corp., No. 12-cv-00426 (C.D. Cal.) ($1.8 million settlement).

Ms. Veno obtained her J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2012, where she was an Associate Editor of the Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal and authored Class Action Securities Lawsuits Should Survive the Death of a Named Defendant: Why Baillargeon v. Sewell Was Wrongly Decided, 25 Quinnipiac Prob. L.J. 408 (2012). She received her B.A. in Political Science and minor in Human Rights from Southern Methodist University in 2009.  

Ms. Veno serves on the Board of the New York Chapter of Women in eDiscovery, and is co-chair of the Climate and Antitrust Committee of COSAL (Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws). She also co-chairs the Advocates for Public Policy committee of the New York Junior League, a women’s volunteer organization, lobbying for legislation benefiting women, children, and families on the city, state, and federal level.