Jacquelyn E. Fradette

JACQUELYN FRADETTE defends companies whose products, services, pricing, marketing, and data practices put them in front of consumers and, eventually, in front of the plaintiffs’ bar. She represents direct-to-consumer brands and e-commerce platforms; consumer finance, lending, and payments companies; pharmaceutical, medical device, and genetic testing companies; food, beverage, cosmetics, and over-the-counter drug manufacturers; and investors, private equity sponsors, and private lenders behind them.

Jacquelyn focuses her practice on the ways modern companies attempt to compete and navigate in the market, and the ever-evolving challenges: interactive and digital marketing, dynamic pricing, sales and promotional practices, advertising and labeling claims, consumer data handling and privacy, and consumer credit reporting. Those challenges arrive in many forms: class actions, mass arbitrations, mass torts, multidistrict litigation, competitor suits, and False Claims Act relator cases. She has experience defending across the litigation spectrum.

When companies face issues with vendors or counterparties, Jacquelyn handles those, too — high-stakes contract fights, business torts, and competitor litigation between sophisticated parties over the deals, partnerships, and supply relationships that keep a consumer business running. In 2026, she was part of a team that revived a claim for more than US$100 million in damages in a dispute over termination rights under an exchange-traded fund services agreement.

Jacquelyn has tried both bench and jury cases in state, federal, and city courts. She has secured summary judgment and voluntary dismissals, and has managed parallel actions filed simultaneously across multiple federal jurisdictions. Her trial and litigation experience shapes the advice she gives long before a complaint is filed. She counsels companies on litigation risk as they launch products, change how they price, build new partnerships and revenue streams, and go through investment and acquisition diligence.

The American Lawyer named Jacquelyn a “Litigator of the Week Runner-Up” twice in 2026: first for the US$100 million exchange-traded fund ruling, and again for winning dismissal of an antitrust class action in the Western District of Washington alleging that a major e-commerce platform inflated consumer electronics prices. Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America recognized her in both Commercial Litigation and Government Relations in 2025. She speaks on digital marketing statutes and litigation at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Public Policy & Legal Summit and teaches CLEs on emerging trends in consumer protection.

• Revived a claim for more than US$100 million in damages in a dispute over termination rights under an exchange-traded fund services agreement — recognized by The American Lawyer as a “Litigator of the Week Runner-Up” matter (2026).
• Won dismissal of an antitrust class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging that a major e-commerce platform inflated consumer prices for electronics — recognized by The American Lawyer as a “Litigator of the Week Runner-Up” matter (2026).
• Obtained summary judgment for a reference pricing class action challenging the companies sale price representations in California State Court.
• Won dismissal of a class action challenging shipping speed representations for major e-commerce retailer under the terms of service.
• Defeated a cross-motion for summary judgment in a Lanham Act competitor false advertising case challenging the company’s flagship product.
• Favorably resolved case bringing 20,000 claims under New Jersey’s data disclosure Daniel’s Law in a one of its kind mass-claims-assignment posture.
• Favorably resolved on individual basis pixel-tracking class action against major pharmaceutical manufacturer.
• Obtained summary judgment and full dismissal of a nationwide consumer class action against a major retailer alleging misleading sale pricing and advertising practices.
• Defended a global consumer products company in parallel consumer class actions filed in multiple federal jurisdictions alleging the product did not deliver its labeled performance claim — coordinating a single defense strategy across every jurisdiction and achieving a favorable resolution.
• Obtained complete voluntary dismissal of a Lanham Act competitor suit attacking a client’s flagship consumer product, including its ingredient and sourcing claims.
• Member of the trial team for a health and lifestyle company in a federal trademark dispute; defeated summary judgment and multiple motions to exclude expert testimony.
• Litigation counsel in case leading to complete defense verdict for a global food and supplement company in a consumer class action challenging labeling and ingredient representations across 20 products.
• Member of the trial team for Clear Channel Outdoor challenging the First Amendment constitutionality of a tax levied on billboard publishers.
• Member of the trial team for an energy company in a complex administrative proceeding against a governmental energy bureau, with more than a dozen intervenors, challenging aspects of a 20-year Integrated Resource Plan — achieving all requested relief.

• American Bar Association
• Maryland State Bar Association
• National Association of Women Lawyers