Kayla Hardimon Butler

• Defense counsel to a leading Fortune 100 health care company in multidistrict litigation relating to insulin pricing.
• Counsel to a leading poultry producer defending allegations that the poultry processors engaged in a conspiracy to suppress processing plant employee wages.
• Counsel to a public university in response to borrower defense (BDR) applications pending before the Department of Education.
• Represented the founder of a cryptocurrency gaming site in parallel federal and state actions concerning a dispute over billions of dollars in corporate assets and bitcoin.
• Defense counsel for a video game grading company in class action fraud and RICO claims.
• Counsel to a health care company in an ongoing internal investigation.

Kayla Hardimon Butler represents clients in a variety of complex commercial, health care, and antitrust litigation, including class actions. She was previously a summer associate and associate for multinational firms in New York.

During her secondment with a renowned global beverage company, she acted as in-house counsel, handling vendor disputes, privacy issues, and threatened claims and litigation brought under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  She also advised various business segments on issues related to licensing policies and procedures and product changes.

While earning her J.D., with honors, from Columbia Law School, she served as the articles editor for the Journal of Race and Law, a teaching assistant, and a research assistant, as well as the president of the Empowering Women of Color organization. Before law school, Kayla taught school in Jacksonville, FL, then was a manager for Teach for America.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• New York

Education

• Columbia University (J.D., 2020)
• Ohio University (B.S., 2013)

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

Memberships