Philippa Ratzki, Esq.

Philippa Ratzki is the Managing Attorney at Douglas & London, focusing on case management, resolution development and oversight, and client services in the field of complex products liability matters, with a focus on products liability, as well environmental contamination litigation. Most recently, Ms. Ratzki has been instrumental in helping secure over $15 billion in settlements for municipal water providers serving drinking water to the American population.

Ms. Ratzki hails from Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a first-generation American and graduated from NYU, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies, a minor in Spanish, and teaching certification, which she put to good use while living and traveling abroad extensively. She is fluent in Spanish and French.

Ms. Ratzki’s roots with the firm run deep: she began her career at Douglas & London as a paralegal, managing litigation involving contraceptive products, including Ortho Evra, Nuva-Ring and Yaz/Yasmin.

After completing a Master’s degree at NYU in interdisciplinary studies, she decided to pursue a law degree, graduating cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, where she served as Editor of the Law Review and received top distinctions on the Moot Court Appellate Division.

Following graduation from law school, Ms. Ratzki spent three years as a litigation associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She then transitioned back to plaintiff work – her true calling – at a national plaintiff’s law firm. In that role, she was responsible for multiple nationwide litigations, including Elmiron (MDL No. 2973 pending before Judge Martinotti in the District of New Jersey), Allergan (MDL No. 2921, also pending before Judge Martinotti), and Philips CPAP (MDL No. 3014 pending before Judge Conti in the Western District of Pennsylvania). Besides her federal caseload, she was also responsible for all claims brought under the Child Victims Act.

Over the course of her almost 20 years in the legal field, Ms. Ratzki has overseen every function of the litigation process for tens of thousands of cases: from jump-starting new advertising campaigns, to running intake departments, to performing full fact discovery (including intensive fact discovery for Bellwether trials), to engaging with opposing counsel and court-appointed administrators for settlement negotiation, implementation, allocation, and distribution.

Ms. Ratzki is proud to have spent much of her career representing victims; she believes anyone damaged by another’s wrongdoing deserves a voice and an advocate. She also has a true passion for mentorship and is committed to broadening access to the legal profession. During the pandemic, she briefly left full-time private practice to open a consulting company, Ratzki Legal Consulting, PLLC, which specializes in efficient file and data management, client communication services, and professional development trainings for law firms of all sizes. She is pleased to be working with the incomparable team at Douglas & London once again.