Holly Stubbs

Holly Stubbs is a trial lawyer focused on high-stakes commercial disputes. She represents clients in complex litigation through all phases of a case. Holly is known for developing strategic, results-driven approaches to achieve favorable outcomes for her clients.

Holly has been a member of trial teams that have achieved significant results, including:

• Securing a no-liability judgment following a week-long bench trial involving $4 million in breach of contract and conspiracy claims related to the purchase of a car dealership.
• Obtaining full summary judgment for a major insurer in a $1 billion property damage claim brought by a national movie theater chain, resulting in dismissal of all claims with prejudice.
• Winning dispositive sanctions that resulted in dismissal of all claims against her client and an award of attorneys’ fees.
• Prevailing on summary judgment in defense of a public charter school facing discrimination claims.
• Securing a take-nothing judgment at trial and defeating unjust enrichment claims.
• Assisting in public nuisance actions that led to negotiated settlements addressing dangerous and criminal activity at residential properties, including successful mediation efforts.

Before entering private practice, Holly clerked for the Honorable Michael J. Seng of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California , and for the Honorable Micaela Alvarez of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Holly earned her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlon Fiske Stone Scholar and received both the David W. Leebron Human Rights Fellowship and the Lowenstein Fellowship. She served as an articles’ editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and taught constitutional law through the High School Law Institute. During her time at Columbia, she worked with human rights organizations in South Africa, Myanmar, and New York, and participated in an interdisciplinary investigation into human rights issues related to gold mining in Papua New Guinea. She also received her B.A., summa cum laude, from the College of Idaho, where she studied International Political Economy and History.