Sabina Mariella

Sabina’s practice is broad, focusing on government enforcement matters and complex, high-profile civil litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants.  

Sabina has represented individuals and entities in enforcement actions and investigations by the FTC, SEC, DOJ, and other government agencies.  She also has significant experience representing crime victims in parallel civil and criminal proceedings or investigations. Sabina has also represented individuals and entities in complex civil matters in federal and state court, as both plaintiffs and defendants. Sabina’s matters are often high-profile, and she has experience litigating cases that garner significant media attention.

Sabina joined the firm after clerking for the Hon. Ronald Lee Gilman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to that position, she clerked for the Hon. Edward G. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and worked as an associate in the New York office of another major law firm.

Sabina's experience includes:

• Representing Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors in class actions against JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank alleging that the banks benefited from sex trafficking, resulting in unprecedented settlements for the survivors
• Representing Hollywood production company Red Granite Pictures in matters relating to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal
• Representing the City of Almaty, Kazakhstan, and BTA Bank in civil litigation, including a multi-week jury trial, against the former president of BTA and others in connection with a money laundering scheme
• Defending the founder and former CEO of a public company in a putative securities fraud class action, obtaining dismissal of the majority of the claims on a motion to dismiss
• Representing Walmart against another Fortune 500 company in a contract dispute worth more than $1 billion
• Representing a high-profile individual in a defamation action against an online news publication
• Representing a major U.S. non-profit organization in a defamation action against a public broadcasting company
• Defended a venture capital firm and its chairman in an enforcement action brought by the Federal Trade Commission, obtaining a complete win mid-trial
• Represented a major credit rating agency in an SEC enforcement investigation and other regulatory inquiries

Sabina’s significant pro bono work includes:

• Handling constitutional litigation in Louisiana following the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, winning the first ruling in the nation to block enforcement of a state’s "trigger bans"
• Representing Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors in a claims administration program, as witnesses and crime victims during the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, and in civil matters, including litigation against Prince Andrew
• Representing multiple women who were sexually abused by individuals in the ballet community

Co-author, Challenging State Abortion Bans in Light of FDA’s Rule Change on the Sale of Abortion Pills, MedCity News (February 2023)

Co-author, In the Eye of the Beholder: The DOJ's Overreliance on 'Taint Teams' to Review Privileged Communications, Global Investigations Review (March 2022)