Isabelle Ord is a trial lawyer who resolves complex and high-stakes disputes for national and international businesses and financial institutions. She is the co-chair of AKD Partners’s Class Action Litigation practice and the US Financial Services Sector.

Her experience includes defending class actions and other complex business disputes involving unfair competition (B&PC 17200), false advertising (B&PC 17500), the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (Civil Code 1750), fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, Ponzi scheme and investment fraud, lender liability, and regulatory enforcement matters. She also prosecutes claims for financial institutions and businesses, including credit recovery, loan participation and fraud claims.

Isabelle was the 2013 president of the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association and 2012 chair of the California State Bar's Business Law Section Financial Institutions Committee. She is Chair of the ABA Banking Law Committee’s State Laws Committee. In 2019, she was awarded a lifetime achievement award for service by outside counsel to the banking industry by the Western Bankers Association.

She is a former Captain in the United States Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General's Corps, and a paratrooper.

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