About Wesley A. Mann

Wesley A. Mann focuses her practice on complex commercial and securities litigation in federal and state courts. She handles matters across all stages of litigation including pleadings, discovery, dispositive motions, depositions, settlement, and appeal.

Wesley drafts pleadings, motions, and briefs; takes and defends fact and expert depositions; and manages all aspects of discovery, including ESI review, document productions, and privilege log challenges. She works closely with partners and retained experts on case strategy, including the development of liability and damages theories, expert reports, and trial-readiness issues.

Prior to joining the firm, Wesley was an associate and law clerk at a national litigation firm.

While in law school, Wesley held internships with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Enforcement Scholars’ Program, with the Honorable Heidi M. Pasichow of the District of Columbia Superior Court, and with an estate planning, personal injury, and business representation law firm in Virginia Beach. She also served as the note and comment editor for the Administrative Law Review and as a member of the Moot Court Honor Society.

Before and while attending law school, Wesley served as a civil affairs specialist and paratrooper with the U.S. Army Reserves.

Experience

  • A skilled nursing care facilities company in a securities class action involving revenue recognition, Medicare billing practices, and restatement-related misstatements; developed allegations concerning scienter, insider trading, scheme liability, materiality and loss causation; coordinated closely with damages, accounting, and Medicare experts on liability and damages theories.
  • An analytics company in securities litigation concerning an accounting restatement; propounded and responded to discovery (interrogatories, requests for production, and deposition notices); managed document productions and standing and tracing discovery; drafted supplemental briefing on Securities Act standing and DTC settlement mechanics; coordinated with tracing expert and took the deposition of defendants’ securities tracing expert.
  • A major independent and natural gas exploration and production company in securities litigation involving resource recovery and reserves reporting; took depositions of the company’s Vice President of Investor Relations and Chief Operating Officer; second-chaired an individual defendant deposition; authored or co-authored multiple discovery letters ad motions, including a successful motion to compel production of a proprietary resource database and a successful Daubert motion; played a central role in discovery strategy and privilege-log challenges.
  • An international e-commerce marketplace in securities litigation regarding malware and noncompliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act; drafter of plaintiffs’ opposition to motion to dismiss; assisted with allegations concerning disclosure and regulatory risk for a foreign issuer; coordinated with expert on service of individual defendants in China.
  • A global technology platform in securities litigation concerning its initial public offering; supported discovery and deposition efforts through resolution; assisted with approximately seven expert depositions and 20 fact witness depositions; supported mediation strategy and settlement efforts.
  • An American digital-first consumer goods company in securities litigation concerning its initial public offering; took the deposition of a member of the company’s board of directors; supported discovery, damages analysis, and mediation and settlement efforts.

Bar Admissions

  • New York

Education

  • American University, Washington College of Law, JD, cum laude
  • University of South Carolina, BA