Liana Carter

Liana Carter is a senior counsel with Capstone Law. Liana contributes to the briefing and litigation strategy for the firm’s complex motions, writs, and appeals. Her drafting and analytical skills are put to work for the firm’s jurisdictional and appellate matters, including protecting clients’ claims when confronted with arbitration agreements. Liana also has extensive prior experience in overseeing settlement negotiations and obtaining court approval of class action settlements. Among other successes, in recent years, she has helped to secure court approval of a multi-million dollar settlement on behalf of a class of several thousand non-exempt employees against a national distributor of professional beauty supplies.

Prior to joining Capstone, Liana’s experience included class and representative action work on behalf of employees and consumers. Liana graduated from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. In law school, she was an Articles Editor on the board of the Southern California Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Irvine, where she graduated cum laude.

Liana serves as a pro bono attorney for the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law. Liana is admitted to practice law in California and before the United States District Court for the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.