Helen E. White

Helen White is a litigator in the Washington, D.C., office of Munger, Tolles & Olson whose practice focuses on complex and sensitive litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.

She represented the State of Washington in a successful challenge to the $24.6 billion proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons and led the team’s trial briefing.

Helen has drafted dozens of briefs, including dispositive motions, trial briefings and appeals, for both state and federal courts. She has also successfully argued dispositive motions and appeals. She has experience handling antitrust, constitutional, regulatory, complex commercial and intellectual property disputes. Her writing on constitutional and election law has appeared in Slate, Just Security, Lawfare, Law360 and the Yale Law Journal.

Before joining the firm, Helen was a counsel for a democracy and elections nonprofit and a litigator in Washington, D.C. at one of the nation’s top law firms.

While at Yale Law School, Helen represented veterans and advocacy organizations in complex federal district court litigation, including class actions, as a member of the Yale Veterans Legal Services Clinic. In law school, she and her partner won the Thurman Arnold Moot Court, for which she won the individual prize for best preliminary round brief. She also received the Israel H. Peres Prize from the faculty for the best note or comment appearing in the Yale Law Journal.