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Ella Beres

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T 202.661.7025 Washington, D.C.
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Ella represents financial services firms and their employees, including broker-dealers, large brokerage firms, and registered investment advisors, on securities litigation and enforcement and regulatory matters. Ella also focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and cybercrime enforcement. Ella has experience with managing high volume litigation dockets and conducting settlement negotiations and cybercrime investigations. She also handles a wide variety of small claims brought by plaintiffs in Virginia General District Courts against public companies, ranging from contract to employment disputes. She generally advises public and private companies in litigation, arbitration, enforcement proceedings, and trading-related regulatory inquiries. Much of her work has focused on representing financial services clients in FINRA arbitrations and FINRA investigations. She also counsels both registered representatives seeking expungement of customer complaints from their CRD records and firms regarding their Form U4 disclosures.

Ella gained significant experience in all aspects of customer initiated FINRA arbitration at McGonigle P.C., before the firm combined with Davis Wright Tremaine.

During law school, Ella gained experience as a Legal Extern at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, Civil Division. Ella also served as a legal intern at the National Labor Relations Board.

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Admitted to Practice

  • District of Columbia
  • Virginia
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia

Education

  • J.D., University of Richmond School of Law, 2019
  • J.D., University of Cambridge, 2017
  • M.A., University of Chicago, 2014
    • Labor Rights Advocacy Internship in Mumbai, India, Summer 2013
    • Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India: Summer Exchange Program 2013
    • Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Summer Institute Program 2013
    • Graduate Research Assistant at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
  • B.A., University of Michigan, 2011

Languages

  • Russian, Ukrainian

Memberships & Affiliations

    • Child Advocate at the University of Chicago Immigration Legal Clinic, Chicago, 2013-2014

Professional Recognition

    • Named "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers in Banking and Finance Law, 2024-2025
    • Participant, Pathfinders Program, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2022
    • Peggy Browning Fund Fellowship, 2018
    • Winner, Virginia Trial Lawyers Trial Competition, 2018
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