Georgene M. Vairo
Of Counsel
Professor Of Law And William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Georgene Vairo has written numerous articles on mass tort litigation, federal practice and jurisdiction, and written and edited several books, including Rule 11 Sanctions and the chapters on removal jurisdiction, venue, change of venue and multidistrict litigation in Moore’s Federal Practice.
From November 1988 until its closing in April 2000, Professor Vairo served on the Board of Trustees of the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust, and since 1989 as the Chairperson. She serves on the editorial boards of several litigation and dispute resolution journals, including Moore's Federal Practice. She also is a member of the Rand Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice Board of Overseers. She is a member of the American Law Institute, has participated in numerous academic conferences, and has lectured widely to the bench and bar at programs various national and local associations and institutes.
Professor Vairo received her B.A. from Sweet Briar College, and was awarded an M.Ed., with Distinction, in Social Studies from the University of Virginia. She graduated first in her class from Fordham University School of Law.
She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph M. McLaughlin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, when he sat with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York; practiced antitrust law with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom; and joined the faculty of the Fordham University School of Law in 1982, where she also served as Associate Dean from 1987 until 1995. She has been teaching at Loyola Law School since 1995, where she is a William M. Rains Fellow.
In addition to her legal experience, she also holds a U.S. Coast Guard 50 Gross Ton Captain’s license, which she uses to volunteer for charitable environmental sea-life cruises in the Santa Barbara Channel, and is the president of her family-owned New York City residential and commercial real estate business.
Professor Vairo is an accomplished Master’s bicycle racer, having won the Road Race and Criterium National Championships in 2005, and placed third in her division in the Everest Challenge, a two-day bicycle race covering over 250 miles and 29,000 feet. She has cycled thousands of miles in charity rides, and has completed the Death Ride, a one-day 130 mile bicycle event involving 16,000 feet of climbing in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.