Leading Questions: Buchalter’s Mary-Christine Sungaila

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Mary-Christine “M.C.” Sungaila, the chair of Buchalter’s appellate practice, expects to see plenty of appellate work in the year ahead around employment, insurance, and other issues coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Simultaneous aggregate and class litigation is possible in many countries across the globe,” Sungaila says. “The potential for far-ranging networked ...