Bridget Asay, former Solicitor General of the State of Vermont, is a nationally recognized trial lawyer and one of the country’s leading appellate advocates. She joined trial boutique Stris & Maher LLP in 2017.
For more than a decade before entering private practice, Asay supervised and conducted litigation in the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. In that role, she oversaw more than 100 appeals annually, advised state agencies and legislative committees, and handled major trial court matters.
Since joining Stris & Maher, Asay has led some of the firm’s most consequential matters across a wide range of areas, including consumer protection, ERISA, and bet-the-company contract disputes. She also plays a leading role in high-impact public-interest litigation, including in areas such as gun safety and environmental protection. Most recently, she defended Vermont’s landmark climate superfund law in USA et al. v. State of Vermont.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2026 | Litigation, Appellate, inc. Supreme Court |
Trial work
Asay regularly leads high-stakes trial court litigation, securing hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries for private and government clients.
Asay currently serves as co-lead counsel in a putative class action accusing pharmaceutical giant Teva Pharmaceuticals of executing a years-long scheme to delay generic competition for the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. Following extensive investigation, Asay’s team filed suit in August 2022 and, in 2024, secured a major victory when the district court denied substantial portions of Teva’s motion to dismiss.
In late 2024, Asay, serving as co-lead counsel, delivered a $186 million recovery for industrial-scale bitcoin miner Rhodium after a week-long trial in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The trial came after the team secured a temporary restraining order and two preliminary injunctions in parallel proceedings in state court and arbitration that preserved Rhodium’s operations while the dispute was ongoing.
Appellate work
Asay is among the most experienced appellate advocates in the country. It is difficult to understate the depth and breadth of her experience: She has argued more than 50 appeals in state and federal courts nationwide, including twice before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2011, Asay represented Vermont before the U.S. Supreme Court in Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc., a First Amendment challenge to a state law restricting pharmaceutical data mining. In 2015, Asay defended Vermont’s health care database statute against an ERISA preemption challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
Her appellate success has continued in private practice. As just one example, in 2024, Asay successfully persuaded the Ninth Circuit to reverse an adverse district court decision—issued after summary judgment and a bench trial—in a decade-old ERISA case. The reversal led to a $21.5 million settlement for a class of Northrop Grumman pensioners.
A testament to her exceptional written appellate advocacy, Asay is a two-time recipient of the prestigious “Best Brief Award” presented by the National Association of Attorneys General for excellence in Supreme Court brief writing.
Background
Asay received her law degree from Yale Law School in 1995 and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1992, where she graduated Phi Beta Kapa, with honors. After law school, Asay clerked for Chief Judge J. Garvan Murtha for the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont and Justice Denise Johnson of the Vermont Supreme Court.