Kaja S. Elmer

Kaja Elmer is special counsel in the firm’s Litigation Section and works on a wide range of commercial matters in state and federal court.

Kaja represents businesses in commercial disputes, investors and borrowers in securities fraud actions, and trustees and receivers in bankruptcy-related litigation in state and federal court. She handles matters involving statutory violations, breach of contract, misrepresentation, and breach of fiduciary duty.

Kaja also represents plaintiffs in class action litigation, including acting as counsel for a nationwide class of student loan debtors in a recent nationwide settlement with Navient Solutions, LLC and Navient Credit Finance Corporation (“Navient”) which resulted in approximately $236 million in debt relief for private student loan borrowers, as well as $44 million in cash compensation. As stated in the class action lawsuit, Navient and its agents refused to recognize the discharges of these private student loans that were (a) to attend non-Title IV schools and programs or (b) made in excess of the cost of attendance, and then continued to collect on the loans even after borrowers obtained bankruptcy discharges.

Prior to joining Fishman Haygood, Kaja practiced litigation at a large national law firm and New Orleans-based firms. She has prior experience litigating consumer, commercial, financial, and insurance matters. Before entering private practice, she worked as a staff attorney at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Kaja received her law degree, cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey, where she was a senior editor of the Seton Hall Law Review and participated in the Civil Rights & Constitutional Litigation Clinic.