Ailyn Popowski-Perez focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, class actions, multidistrict litigation, antitrust matters, and product liability. She handles sophisticated matters in state and federal courts and in arbitration, with experience spanning all phases of litigation, including legal research and strategy, motion practice, discovery, deposition preparation, e-discovery, hearings, arbitration, and trial preparation.
Ailyn has substantial experience litigating complex disputes involving corporate and commercial matters, mass torts, consumer claims, securities, product liability, and other high-stakes civil litigation. Her work has included representing clients in major class actions and multidistrict proceedings, managing large-scale discovery projects and document productions, drafting trial memoranda, pleadings and motions, and coordinating with litigation teams, experts, and e-discovery professionals.
Before rejoining Podhurst Orseck in 2020, Ailyn was a partner at V.M. Diaz and Partners, where she represented individuals and businesses in complex civil litigation in state and federal court. Her experience there included commercial disputes, class actions, product-liability matters, employment litigation, insurance-coverage disputes, and significant real-estate and financial litigation. She was part of litigation teams that obtained or helped secure substantial verdicts and settlements, including a $164 million judgment involving commercial mortgage-backed securities and a multimillion-dollar jury verdict, including punitive damages, in product-liability litigation involving defective Chinese drywall.
Ailyn began her legal career at Podhurst Orseck, where she worked on complex commercial litigation, class actions, mass torts, aviation matters, and multidistrict litigation. Her matters included securities-fraud class actions involving thousands of investors, litigation arising from a major Ponzi scheme, aviation-disaster cases in South and Central America, and the Firestone AT/ATX Wilderness tire and Ford Explorer multidistrict litigation.
Ailyn earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was on the Dean’s List, participated in Moot Court and Mock Trial, and received Book Awards in Evidence and Constitutional Law II. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Florida.
