Rebecca is a member of the firm's Global Commercial Disputes Group and her practice focuses on managed care litigation and counseling. She has handled a wide-range of managed care litigation, including class actions, member and provider cases involving ERISA, the Affordable Care Act, mental health parity, prompt pay, and bad faith. Rebecca is well-versed on the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and routinely handles (MHPAEA) litigation.
Prior to her legal career, Rebecca served as an Afghanistan analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, during which time she received many performance awards for her analytic skills. In March 2002, she was invited by the President’s Envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq to serve as the associate director for Afghanistan, Islamic Outreach, and Southwest Asia Initiatives at the National Security Council at the White House, which she did until September 2003. During her time at the National Security Council, she traveled extensively in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, and took part in negotiations with heads of state and other leaders regarding United States post-9/11 foreign policy.
