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Margaret A. Little

Senior Litigation Counsel


Peggy Little, Senior Counsel, comes to NCLA with over three decades of experience as a trial and appellate litigator in complex, high-stakes regulatory, mass-tort, class-action, products liability, securities, commercial and civil rights litigation representing individuals and high-profile litigants including Fortune 50 companies, financial institutions, public companies, and universities in state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.

Peggy is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Potter Stewart Prize. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to starting her own trial and appellate law firm in 1997, where she was appellate consulting counsel to the New Haven firefighters in Ricci v.DeStefano, a landmark 2009 United States Supreme Court decision, Peggy was a partner at Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn in New Haven, Connecticut. From 2004 to early 2018, Peggy directed, part-time, the Federalist Society Pro Bono Center.

Peggy has participated in many national conferences and symposia addressing issues of current importance in constitutional law – specifically state and federal constitutional questions regarding the separation of powers and the first amendment – and regularly speaks, blogs and publishes on the topic of the unconstitutional exercise of governmental power. In May of 2017, she presented her paper, Pirates at the Parchment Gates, to a conference of state and federal judges at the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School. Her work has been published by law reviews, legal publications, the Federalist Society, the Wall Street Journal, Law and Liberty and the Manhattan Institute.

Not licensed in Virginia; admitted to practice in Connecticut, D.C., and select federal jurisdictions.

The SEC’s Bleak House of Cards: Some Reflections on Jarkesy v. SEC and Judicial Doctrine

By: Margaret A. Little June 30, 2023
The SEC’S Bleak House of Cards Some Reflections on Jarkesy v. SEC and Judicial Doctrine
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Regulator, Regulate Thyself!

By: Margaret A. Little April 6, 2023
In the News
Approximately 111.7 million Americans are cyber-attacked each year. More than 80% of all American firms report that they have been successfully hacked, with 43% of those cyber attacks targeting smaller businesses. Those breaches of security grow in frequency, penetration and industry reach with every year that we become more and more dependent upon electronic ways…
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How Can a Trial Be Fair When the Judge Works for the Prosecutor?

By: Margaret A. Little November 7, 2022
The ever-expanding administrative state has become a fourth branch of government. Unelected, unaccountable and tenure-protected bureaucrats enact most rules governing Americans’ lives—thousands of new ones every year. Seeking to aid this swelling administrative state, Congress has created in-house courts, which have taken over most regulatory enforcement cases from the judiciary. These administrative-law judges are employed…
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