Alison Vandenburgh Zoschak
Attorney
Overview
Alison represents businesses and organizations across a broad range of complex civil litigation matters. Alison draws from her exceptional experience in private practice and in the judiciary to defend clients with precision and tenacity.
Before joining Greene Espel, Alison worked for several years as an associate at one of the leading litigation boutiques in Washington D.C., where she served clients in high-stakes antitrust, class action, and IP-related disputes. Prior to this, Alison clerked both for Judge Debra Ann Livingston at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Alison graduated from Columbia Law School, where she was a Notes Editor for the Columbia Law Review and served as a teaching assistant and legal research assistant. Alison received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize, which is awarded to students who achieve Jame Kent high honors all three years of law school.
EDUCATION
- J.D., Columbia Law School
- B.S.F.S., magna cum laude, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
EXPERIENCE
- Wilkinson Stekloff LLP, Associate
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Judge Debra Ann Livingston, Law Clerk
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, Law Clerk
ADMISSIONS
- State Bar of Minnesota, pending
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- State Bar of New York
- District of Columbia
Alison's Practice Areas
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Antitrust and Competition
Explore Practice AreaGreene Espel can help you navigate antitrust and competition investigations, government enforcement actions, white collar criminal investigations and litigation, trial and appellate litigation, and compliance counseling.
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Class Actions
Explore Practice AreaClients regularly turn to Greene Espel when faced with high-stakes, class-action litigation. Greene Espel attorneys have defended dozens of putative class actions in federal and state courts all across the country.
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Commercial Litigation
Explore Practice AreaOur business litigation practice embraces the wide variety of commercial disputes facing private and public companies today. Areas of particular expertise include intellectual property, antitrust, securities, employment, professional liability, and construction disputes.
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Trademark Litigation
Explore Practice AreaFrom premier brand-owners to niche device manufacturers, clients seek Greene Espel’s counsel in complex disputes involving trademarks.
Alison's Community Involvement
Alison has a robust pro bono practice, providing legal services to those who otherwise couldn't afford them. Alison is particularly proud to have represented a Cameroonian man in his successful petition for asylum and his subsequent application to bring his family to the United States, as well as a woman seeking an order for protection against her physically abusive soon-to-be-ex-husband.