Rebecca E. Bazan

practices in the area of complex commercial litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. She has worked in diverse areas, including animal law, environmental law, administrative law, consumer fraud, business and tort litigation, civil RICO and employment discrimination.

Ms. Bazan has developed extensive experience in animal law and animal rights litigation and regulatory counseling, including representation of businesses or entities in the entertainment, agricultural, fashion and food production spaces whose operations involve animals or animal products or services. She has experience with the Endangered Species Act, Animal Welfare Act, National Environmental Policy Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Ms. Bazan has experience in all phases of civil litigation, including motions practice, discovery, settlement negotiations, trial and appeal. Ms. Bazan has authored many successful dispositive motions, has extensive experience managing large-scale electronic discovery, and has authored and argued successful appeals at the federal circuit court level. In addition to litigation, she advises and counsels clients on permitting and compliance with state and federal animal laws.

Ms. Bazan also serves as a member of the Washington, D.C. office of Duane Morris’s pro bono committee and diversity and inclusion committee.

Ms. Bazan is a 2009 graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was co-chair of the article selection committee of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, and a graduate of Emory University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Resume

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2020-present
- Special Counsel, 2018-2019

•Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
- Senior Associate, 2014-2018
- Associate, 2010-2013

•Office of the Federal Public Defender, San Antonio, Texas
- Legal Intern, Fall 2009

Honors and Awards

•Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2015-2019

•Legal Lion, Law360’s Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs, May 15, 2014

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

•Contributor, Duane Morris Animal Law Developments Blog

•Author, DC Consumer Protection Procedures Act Claims Worth Less Than Previously Thought, Norton Rose Fulbright Consumer Products Law Blog, May 5, 2016

•Co-Author, Private RICO Litigation, The Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, LexisNexis, 2014

•Co-Author, Private RICO Litigation, The Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, LexisNexis, 2013

•Co-Author, Criminal Enforcement of the Federal Securities Act, The Federal Securities Act of 1933, LexisNexis, 2011

•Co-Author, Private RICO Litigation, The Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, LexisNexis, 2011

•Co-Author, Criminal Enforcement of the Federal Securities Act, The Federal Securities Act of 1933, LexisNexis, 2010

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Speaker, Discovery Hot Topics, at Norton Rose Fulbright Inaugural Business Litigation Summit for In-House Counsel, New York, November 2017

•Speaker, “Defending Against Animal Activist Litigation: A View from the Trenches,” at Association of Zoos and Aquariums Annual Conference, San Diego, September 2016