Covington & Burling (Washington)

Steve Petkis

Covington & Burling (Washington)
Associate

Steve Petkis is a litigation associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He has experience defending a variety of clients in their most sensitive and complex litigation matters in both state and federal court. Steve is skilled in all phases of litigation, including discovery, trial, and appeal. In particular, he has played a lead role in crafting and executing dispositive, expert, and evidentiary briefing strategies, resulting in key victories at all stages. As a member of multiple trial teams, Steve also has stand-up court experience and has been responsible for taking and defending fact and expert depositions, drafting key witness examinations, and developing post-trial findings of fact and conclusions of law. Steve previously served as a law clerk to Judge Katherine B. Forrest on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He maintains an active pro bono practice focused on civil rights and criminal justice issues.

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Steve Petkis The US District Court for the Northern District of California issues a decision on a decertification order in a long-running class action dispute concerning class-wide damages model (Freitas / Cricket Wireless)

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On July 29, Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California issued a decertification order in a long-running class action dispute concerning Cricket Wireless’s 4G advertising, ruling that plaintiff’s counsel made “too critical a mistake” in fashioning their class-wide damages model. See (...)

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