Vinita Banthia

Vinita focuses her practice on complex environmental litigation, products liability and toxic torts matters. Vinita primarily represents clients pursuing and defending multi-faceted environmental matters, often involving complex site histories of contamination, numerous parties, as well as issues related to corporate successorship and liability, cleanup and response costs, soil and groundwater contamination, diminution in value to property, and Natural Resource Damages. Her work includes all phases of litigation, including pleadings, discovery requests and responses, motion practice, large scale document reviews and productions, and trial preparation.

Leveraging her science background helps Vinita dig deeper into the facts in cases that include a scientific component. In what is often litigation driven by complex testimony of a technical and/or scientific nature, clients appreciate Vinita’s ability to translate the technical aspects of their matters into language they can understand. Vinita prides herself on her ability to listen to and understand the objectives of her clients, explain the litigation process in a straight-forward manner, and to develop a plan that uses creative and unique strategies to achieve successful results. Vinita combines her interest in applying scientific principles to legal doctrines with her dedication to helping clients navigate these unique frameworks.

Prior to joining Archer, Vinita was a litigation and trial associate at a boutique trial firm, where she practiced products liability law defending manufacturers from a range of diverse industries. She was on a defense team representing a Fortune 500 medical device manufacturer facing a multi-district litigation  with over 5000 plaintiffs. The team secured complete summary judgment for the manufacturer and the dismissal of all plaintiffs in the MDL.

While at the University of Minnesota Law School, Vinita served as a judicial extern to then-Chief Judge Michael Davis in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Outside of her legal practice , Vinita is passionate about local and international legal issues which led her to  pursue a legal fellowship with the American Red Cross’s International Humanitarian Law Team in Washington, DC (2021-2023), and a writing and advocacy internship with Food Tank (2024).