Milli Kanani Hansen has significant experience coordinating and managing large-scale or multijurisdictional litigation, including class actions, actions coordinated in multidistrict litigation proceedings and actions pending in state courts across the country. She also represents clients in governmental enforcement actions brought by the Department of Justice and state attorney general offices.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2026 | Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2025 | Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation |
Hansen has extensive experience overseeing pretrial discovery, including advising clients on discovery strategy, negotiating with opposing counsel, discovery motions, affirmative discovery, and factual investigation and development. She has also prepared witnesses for depositions and worked with experts to challenge plaintiffs’ scientific or economic theories.
In addition, Hansen has represented manufacturers facing purported class actions at both the trial and appellate levels. In this capacity, she has drafted motions on dispositive issues, class certification, expert admissibility and discovery disputes.
Hansen also has substantial experience representing companies — and their executives and employees — in government investigations and enforcement proceedings. Matters in which she has been involved include:
- representing a manufacturer of building products in multiple purported consumer class actions
- defending a pharmaceutical company in state attorneys general enforcement actions and consumer class actions
- representing a professional sports league in connection with personal injury claims brought by former and current athletes
- representing corporate employees in connection with parallel civil and criminal investigations initiated by the Department of Justice
Hansen also is committed to providing pro bono assistance to indigent individuals. She has assisted a victim of domestic violence seeking child custody, represented a 4-year-old child as a guardian ad litem in a custody dispute and served as counsel for a group of tenants seeking abatement of housing code violations.