Prior to joining KM, Ms. Wands was an associate at two large international law firms in New York, where she represented clients in federal securities fraud class action litigation, SEC and other regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. She has co-authored several amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, including amicus briefs in support of Congress in the consolidated cases Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP and Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG, and in support of the U.S. Department of Justice in United States v. Texas.
 
Ms. Wands received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2018, where she served as the Symposium & Communications Editor for The Georgetown Law Journal. During law school, Ms. Wands served as a law clerk for Senator Dianne Feinstein on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. She also held an externship in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

Ms. Wands joined the firm in 2023.

• University of Washington (B.A. 2012)
• Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 2018), The Georgetown Law Journal, Symposium & Communications Editor

• New York State Bar
• The District of Columbia Bar
• United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

• Lead counsel in securities class action Liu v. StubHub Holdings Inc. et al., No. 25 Civ. 09776 (S.D.N.Y.) alleging that the company made materially false and misleading statements in connection with the initial public offering.  The litigation is ongoing.
• Representation of the Lead Plaintiff in Local 295 IBT Employer Group Welfare Fund v. Compass Minerals Int'l, Inc., a putative class action alleging that Compass Minerals and three of its former officers misled investors about the progress and cost savings associated with its implementation of a new salt mining initiative.  The matter resulted in a settlement of $48 million.
• Co-lead counsel of a class led by the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General, the New Mexico State Investment Council, the Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico, and the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board in In re Credit Default Swaps Auctions Litigation alleging that leading credit default swap (CDS) dealers took part in a more than decade-long, multibillion-dollar scheme to manipulate the benchmark prices used to value credit default swap contracts at settlement.