Ava Cavaco specializes in complex multi-district and class action litigation, and represents individuals affected by defective medical devices and pharmaceuticals, environmental toxic exposure, dangerous consumer products, medical malpractice, and personal injury. She is judicially appointed to Plaintiffs’ leadership and elected Chair of the Leadership Development Committee in MDL 3014, In Re: Philips Recalled CPAP, Bi-Level Pap, and Mechanical Ventilator Products Litigation.In 2025, Ava was appointed by Judge Casey Rodgers to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee and Science & Experts Subcommittee on MDL 3140 In Re: Depo Provera (Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate) Products Liability Litgation). When Ava is not in the office, she can be found teaching Torts as an adjunct professor and serving as Supervising Faculty for the Externship Program at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Before law school, Ava worked in various roles in academic medicine, OBGYN research, and women’s health. Seeing the underrepresentation of issues meaningful to her influenced her to pursue law as a 2nd career.
