Brooke Bolender

• Representing and counseling multiple clients in defense of alleged violations the California Unfair Competition Law, the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act, the California False Advertising Law, and automatic renewal laws.
• Defended and obtained a successful resolution of a putative class action alleging violations of California automatic renewal laws, the California Unfair Competition Law, and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act.
• Defending a major insurance company in a putative class action involving thousands of policyholders and claims of violations of California insurance statutes.
• Member of a trial team defending a national life insurance company against allegations relating to the sale of annuities.
• Member of the national counsel team representing a major pharmacy benefit manager in ongoing multidistrict litigation.
• Representing a prominent retailer in multistate products liability litigation arising out of a recalled product.
• Member of a litigation team representing a national paper company as the plaintiff in a products liability action.
• Defended and counseled firm with legal claims and administrative action arising out of a real estate development project.
• Represented a pro bono client in a landlord-tenant dispute, resulting in a favorable resolution for the client.

Brooke Bolender is an associate with Alston & Bird’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation. Brooke represents individual and corporate clients in a wide variety state and federal court litigation, including contract disputes, unfair competition and false advertising claims, shareholder derivative suits, and products liability litigation. She assists clients from a range of industries, such as health care, life insurance, financial services and products, manufacturing, retail, and real estate. Brooke has experience at all stages of litigation, from precomplaint investigation through appeals.

Brooke currently serves on the firm’s Los Angeles Office Pro Bono Committee and Hiring Committee.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Brooke earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of California, Irvine School of Law and received Faculty Awards for the highest grade in Evidence, Constitutional Analysis, and Federal Courts, as well as a Dean’s Award for the second highest grade in Remedies. She served as the senior articles editor of the UC Irvine Law Review, as well as a certified student law representative with the school’s Domestic Violence Clinic, representing domestic violence survivors in various family, immigration, and criminal law matters.

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• University of California, Irvine (J.D., 2021)
• University of California, San Diego (B.A., 2016)