Key staffing changes are afoot at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), as two individuals have recently joined the Agency’s leadership ranks. To learn more, read Crowell’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer blog post CPSC Announces New Staff Appointments.

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Photo of Chantel Greene Chantel Greene

Chantel Greene’s practice focuses on product liability and safety issues arising out of consumer and occupational exposures.

Chantel counsels clients on product disputes, risk mitigation, and crisis management matters. She also advises clients on regulatory and enforcement issues before the U.S. Consumer Product

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Chantel Greene’s practice focuses on product liability and safety issues arising out of consumer and occupational exposures.

Chantel counsels clients on product disputes, risk mitigation, and crisis management matters. She also advises clients on regulatory and enforcement issues before the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), including compliance with product safety regulations and standards, reporting obligations, product recalls, and CPSC investigations and penalties. In this arena, her clients include distributors, manufacturers, brick-and-mortar retailers, online retailers, and online marketplaces.

Chantel also serves on the National Coordinating Counsel team for a Fortune 500 chemical company in connection with the company’s premises liability and product liability litigation. In this role, Chantel assists in managing a nationwide docket by working with local counsel to develop defense themes, preparing expert witnesses for deposition and trial, and providing strategic advice on individual cases. She has deep experience with every stage of litigation, from pre-suit investigations, through discovery, to trial.

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Chantel worked for Florida’s largest full-service civil litigation firm. Her practice encompassed commercial litigation, professional malpractice, products liability, and regulatory investigations and examinations.

In 2023, Chantel was named one of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in the areas of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions and Personal Injury Litigation.

Chantel is an active mentor through Crowell & Moring’s partnership with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. She also mentors through College Bound, a Washington, D.C. non-profit organization that pairs mentors with Washington, D.C. students in grades 8-12 to help prepare them for college.

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Photo of Helena Alvarez Helena Alvarez

Helena Alvarez helps clients meet their legal and business objectives by counseling them on Antitrust & Competition and Mass Tort, Product & Consumer Litigation matters.

Helena supports clients on a wide variety of antitrust and competition issues. Her antitrust and competition representative experience

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Helena Alvarez helps clients meet their legal and business objectives by counseling them on Antitrust & Competition and Mass Tort, Product & Consumer Litigation matters.

Helena supports clients on a wide variety of antitrust and competition issues. Her antitrust and competition representative experience includes civil litigation, investigations, and transactions.

Within her torts practice, Helena assists clients in the pharmaceutical, consumer product, and transportation industries with their regulatory and litigation needs.

Helena maintains an active pro bono practice, primarily handling asylum matters.

Helena received her J.D., cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law. In law school, she was a student attorney in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and on the executive board of the American University Business Law Review. She earned her B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University.

Born and raised in El Salvador, Helena is a native Spanish speaker.

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