Profil
Blakeley Oranburg is a commercial litigator with a particular focus on real estate litigation, complex business disputes, and trust and estate litigation. Blakeley also has experience defending consumer products companies in complex, multi-party litigation, including class actions. She has represented clients in litigation in state and federal courts, arbitrations, and in appellate matters before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Blakeley handles virtually every phase of litigation, including research, drafting and argument of substantive and procedural motions, discovery, and preparing for and conducting trial.
Expertise
Erfahrung
- Summer Clerk, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 2013
- Judicial Extern, Hon. Susan Webber Wright, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, 2012
- Defended trial court’s dismissal of individual defendants on personal jurisdiction grounds. See Keyway Pride Limited LLC v. Reuben, No. B340135, 2026 WL 1194419 (Cal. Ct. App. May 1, 2026) (nonpub. op.).
- Obtained dismissal at the pleading stage of action for recognition of final foreign money judgment under the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act (“UFCMJRA”).
- Representation of retailers concerning alleged false reference pricing claims, in state and federal litigation.
- Compelled arbitration of putative consumer class action alleging consumer fraud against major electronics distributor concerning allegedly defective mobile devices.
- Represented major financial institution and obtained dismissal at the pleading stage of claims alleging conversion and violation of California’s commercial code.
- Represented a Fortune 50 retailer and obtained dismissal at the pleading stage of a putative class action alleging wage and hour violations.
- Represented international, award-winning wine maker in a trademark dispute and obtained dismissal at the pleading stage of all claims.
- Represented major financial institution in several putative nationwide class actions alleging violation of the CARES Act and obtained dismissal at the pleading stage of all claims.
- Represented one of the world’s largest petrochemical companies in defending allegations that its predecessors owed a duty of care to Iranian refinery workers from 1954 to 1973 by virtue of their participation in the Iranian oil consortium. Obtained monetary and issue sanctions against the plaintiff and his counsel for discovery violations and the application of Iranian law to bar the plaintiff’s claims for punitive damages, strict liability, and joint and several liability. Ultimately, the Los Angeles Superior Court granted petrochemical company’s motion for summary judgment, confirming that petrochemical company did not owe a duty of care to Iranian refinery workers.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Oranburg prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Anerkennung durch den Markt
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Commercial Litigation, 2024-2026
- Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, 2019-Present
- California State Bar, Litigation Section, 2016-Present
- Hispanic National Bar Association, 2016-Present
- RISE, 2016-Present
- Louisiana Bar Association, 2014-Present
- American Bar Association, 2014-Present
Ausbildung
Akademische Ausbildung
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J.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law
- Submissions Editor, Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice
- B.A., cum laude, Washington and Lee University
Zulassung
- California
- Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit