Hannah Kanter

Hannah conducts legal research, factual investigations and issue analyses in support of litigation strategy. She assists with the drafting of pleadings and motions, contributes to large-scale discovery and document production, prepares discovery requests, and develops case chronologies.

Agile with both factual narratives and legal issues, Hannah has contributed to a broad range of commercial and complex civil litigation matters, including false advertising disputes, adversarial actions in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, breach of fiduciary duty and securities law claims, and contractual and business disputes. She has provided legal research and drafting in support of briefs before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Sixth Circuits.

In addition to her litigation work, Hannah commits her legal research and writing skills to pro bono representations. She has conducted legal research and drafted memoranda on a variety of issues, including a memorandum for a national gun violence prevention center on the feasibility of an assault weapons ban despite local government objection, and a memorandum for Spanish companies operating in the US to ensure compliance with anti-DEI executive orders.

Hannah was a member of the team that won a partial reversal in a pro bono Section 1983 case at the Sixth Circuit on behalf of the victim of an unlawful traffic stop who alleged the arresting officers fabricated drug evidence. She contributed legal research and helped draft briefs submitted to the court arguing that an abundance of evidence of suspicious police conduct existed to support the client’s fabrication-of-evidence claim, which secured the reversal of the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendant officers. Hannah also counsels and represents pro bono clients in New York City Housing Court, helping them collect factual evidence and advocating on their behalf at hearings, and she participates in the firm’s ongoing representation of clients seeking asylum.

An enthusiastic learner and writer, Hannah helps develop the firm’s client insight publications covering noteworthy developments in litigation, legislation and government policy enforcement, including the US corporate governance annual and midyear reviews. She also presents on National Advertising Division (NAD) enforcement trends at the quarterly client-facing advertising litigation webinar.

Hannah returned to the firm after participating in the summer associate program in 2023. During law school, she worked as a legal extern for Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Domestic Violence Division and served as a student attorney for the Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic, where she analyzed country-specific patterns and practices regarding gender, criminal justice and counterterrorism. Hannah also participated in the Duke Law Civil Justice Clinic as a student attorney, where her work focused on eviction defense and unfair housing claims.