Elissa A. Buchanan’s legal expertise focuses on antitrust, class actions, intellectual property, corporate securities, and shareholder litigation. She manages a team of document reviewers tasked with analyzing and organizing extensive e-discovery. She also plays an active role in deposition and trial preparation, as well as fact (evidence) research and case development. Always focused on providing positive outcomes for her clients, she takes pride in conducting litigation efforts that reliably achieve that goal in a timely, cost-effective manner.
Elissa works primarily on antitrust drug cases involving pay-for-delay, PBM (pharmacy benefit management or manager) kickbacks, and generic drug company collusion. Also, of recent significance, she has presided in intense discovery efforts in Varsity All Star and Scholastic Cheer Market Price-Fixing Litigation, both in helping bring the case to the firm and coordinating the completion of over 75 depositions in a six-month span.
Elissa has taken the lead role in forming the firm’s “Green Team,” a group of employees who have organized personnel and implemented policy changes to ensure that the firm is environmentally responsible. They have successfully achieved the firm’s designation as a Certified Green Business by the San Francisco Green Business Program.
Prior to joining the firm, Elissa worked as a contract attorney on construction defect litigation and antitrust and personal injury class actions. During law school, she interned at California Lawyers for the Arts, where she worked with clients to find solutions to copyright and trademark issues. She also was a technical editor for the Journal of Law and Social Justice and volunteered for Law in Motion, a program that provides opportunities for the law school community to reflect on issues of social justice and access to equal justice through various activities and events.
Elissa is a member of the American Bar Association.