Alayne Gobeille

Alayne Gobeille is an associate in Berman Tabacco’s San Francisco office. She first litigated securities fraud class actions and shareholder derivative matters in 2016 and has worked on antitrust matters as well.

Before joining Berman Tabacco in 2025, Alayne also practiced environmental law in both private and non-profit firms where she worked to ensure that defendants in the extractive industries remediated property and protected natural resources.

Alayne served as a law clerk to former Chief Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill of the United States District for the Eastern District of California for more than two years.

Alayne received her J.D. and Environmental Law Certificate from Tulane University Law School in 2011. During her time in law school, she was a student attorney in the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic and a member of the Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Alayne has a master’s degree in natural resources from Cornell University. Prior to law school, she worked as an environmental epidemiology researcher in New York City, where she studied impacts of the built environment on human health. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Fermentation Sciences from the University of California, Davis.

Alayne is a member of the State Bar of Louisiana and the Bar of the District of Columbia.

Education

• Tulane University School of Law (J.D. and Environmental Law Certificate, cum laude, 2011)
• Cornell University (M.S., Natural Resources with concentration in soil sciences, 2003)
• University of California, Davis (B.S., Fermentation Sciences, 2000)

Experience

• Alayne has been involved in litigation helping to recover more than $20 million in securities fraud cases, among them: Khoja v. Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., et al., No. 3:15-cv-00540 (S.D. Cal.) ($4.8 million); In re Health Insurance Innovations Securities Litigation, No. 8:17-cv-02186 (M.D. Fla) ($2.8 million); and Dougherty v. Esperion Therapeutics, Inc., et al., No. 2:16-cv-10089 (E.D. Mich.) ($18.25 million).

Admissions

• State Bar of Louisiana
• District of Columbia Bar
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
• United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
• United States District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
• Fifth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals

Education

• Founder and President of the Board of Directors of Aqua Mob NOLA, a Louisiana Non-Profit Organization and Water Ballet Troupe

Publications, Presentations & Appearances

• Gobeille AK, Morland KB, Bopp RF, Godbold JH, Landrigan PJ, Body Burdens of Mercury in Lower Hudson River Area Anglers, Environmental Research (2006), 101 (3):205-212
• Gobeille A, Yavitt J, Stalcup P, and Valenzuela A., Effects of soil management practices on soil fertility measurements on Agave tequilana plantations in Western Central Mexico, Soil & Tillage Research (2006), 87:80-88.
• Morland KB, Landrigan PJ, Sjodin A, Gobeille AK, Jones RS, McGahee EE, Needham LL, Patterson DG, Body Burdens of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers among Urban Anglers, Environmental Health Perspectives (2005), 113 (112):1689-1692.
• Anderson K, Teuber S, Gobeille A, Cremin P, Waterhouse A, Steinberg F, Walnut Polyphenolics Inhibit In Vitro Plasma and LDL Oxidation, Journal of Nutrition (2001), 131 (11):2241-6.
• Kimberly Morland, Alayne Gobeille, Anne Golden, James Godbold, Erin Moshier, Mary Wolff, Phillip Landrigan, Fish Consumption and Body Burden of Pollutants in New York and New Jersey Anglers, 16th Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiologists (August 2004).