Parvin has been a Seeger Weiss litigator for more than a decade, bringing her extensive background in class action consumer and mass tort matters to bear on some of the biggest class action and mass tort matters before the firm and before the country. Her work includes serving in key trial, discovery and expert development roles in mass tort and class action cases and handling critical aspects of many Seeger Weiss efforts on behalf of a wide spectrum of plaintiffs.
She has played a key role in such significant matters as:
The nationwide litigation battle over opioid drugs, representing counties and municipalities whose health and hospital systems have been severely tested by the epidemic of drug abuse. The opioid lawsuits are “on par to become the largest civil litigation agreement in U.S. history,” according to Forbes Magazine;
Litigation against 3M, over allegations that the manufacturer sold defective earplugs to the military for use in battle situations and to civilians for high noise exposure situations;
Litigation against AbbVie Inc., resulting in more than $290 million in initial verdicts against the manufacturer of a testosterone replacement therapy drug that caused heart attacks, strokes, and other side effects after being heavily marketed to middle-aged and older men;
The multi-billion-dollar cases brought against Volkswagen and other carmakers for disguising the actual emission levels of their diesel engine cars. The settlement figure in this case makes it “the largest auto-related consumer class-action settlement in U.S. history,” lawyers told The Star of Toronto.
Representing many investors in Bernard Madoff’s investment fund, revealed to be a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, and protecting the investors’ millions of dollars when the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee attempted to take back money they had in good faith withdrawn from their Madoff accounts. The U.S. Attorney’s office in New York indicated in proceedings that the Madoff Ponzi scheme was the largest in history, and the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person.
Education
2008, Juris Doctorate
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Editorial Board Member of the Moot Court Honor Society
Recipient of the Jacob Burns Medal for Outstanding Contribution to the Moot Court Honor Society
Benjamin N. Cardozo Writing Award for best work not for publication
New York City Bar Association Regional Moot Court Competition, 1st Place Team, Best Brief Award
Fordham Law School Irving Kaufman Securities Competition, Best Petitioner Brief Award, 2nd Place Team
LLM Legal Writing Teaching Assistant, 2007-2008
Student Advocate, Securities Arbitration Clinic 2006-2007
Student Intern, Securities and Exchange Commission, Spring 2008
2004, Bachelor of Arts
Fordham University
Dean’s List, 2003
Languages
Conversational Spanish and Persian
Practices
Catastrophic Injury
Product Liability
Drug Injury
Admissions
States
New York
New Jersey
District Courts
Northern District of New York
Eastern District of New York
Southern District of New York
District of New Jersey
Courts of Appeals
Second Circuit
Third Circuit
Eighth Circuit
Memberships & Associations
American Association for Justice
New Jersey Association for Justice
Co-Chair, Cardozo Women Alumni Group
Former Vice Chair, Cardozo Law School Black Asian Latino Law Students Alumni Group Association
