Michaela Wallin

Biography

Michaela Wallin is a Shareholder in the Antitrust and Employment Law practice groups. Ms. Wallin litigates complex cases on behalf of workers, consumers, and businesses, with a focus on antitrust and labor matters.

Ms. Wallin has played significant roles in class actions challenging anticompetitive conduct in a variety of industries, challenging price-fixing, wage suppression, and monopolization. Ms. Wallin also litigates class and collective actions challenging forced labor and wage and hour violations.

Ms. Wallin has robust experience investigating and developing antitrust cases, navigating complex legal and factual issues, negotiating discovery, synthesizing and distilling conspiracy evidence, and working with experts. Ms. Wallin was a key architect of the In re RealPage Inc. Rental Software Antitrst Litig., one of the first cases alleging algorithmic collusion, and she currently serves on the plaintiffs’ steering committee. Ms. Wallin has played significant roles in litigation that has achieved notable recoveries for classes harmed by anticompetitive conduct, including In re Broiler Chicken Grower Antitrust Litigation ($169 million in settlements to date) and In re Opana ER Antitrust Litigation ($145 million in settlements). Ms. Wallin was awarded the American Antitrust Institute’s Award for Outstanding Litigation Achievement in Private Practice for her work on the In re Broiler Chicken Grower litigation.

Ms. Wallin’s current cases include, among others:

• In re: RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litig. (No. II), No. 3:23-md-3071 (M.D. Tenn.) (appointed as member of plaintiffs’ steering committee representing a class of renters suing over price fixing)
• Uriel Pharm. Health & Welfare Plan v. Advocate Aurora Health, Inc., No. 2:22-cv-610 (E.D. Wis.) (representing a class of direct purchasers of health care services alleging monopolization)
• Haff Poultry Inc. e al. v. Mountaire Farms Inc. et al., 25-cv-00217 (E.D. Okla.), (representing a class of chicken farmers in a pay suppression case against major chicken processors)
• Chun-Ko Chang et al. v. Shen Yun Performing Arts, Inc., et al., 24-cv-8980 (S.D.N.Y.) (representing a class of performers in a forced labor and human trafficking case against the dance company Shen Yun)
• Diaz Navarrete et al v. Conexus MedStaff LLC, No. 4:25-cv-00635 (S.D. Tex.) (representing a class of foreign nurses in a forced labor and human trafficking case)

Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Wallin served as a law clerk for the Honorable James L. Cott of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. She also completed an Equal Justice Works Fellowship at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, where she challenged local laws that target domestic violence survivors for eviction and impede tenants’ ability to call the police.

Ms. Wallin is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and a Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar.