Atty. Deanne E. Maynard
Deanne E. Maynard, chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group, is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, and a former Assistant to the Solicitor General at the United States Department of Justice.
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Deanne E. Maynard is a appellate attorney based in Washington, District of Columbia, practicing at Morrison Foerster. Admitted to practice in Virginia, Virginia State Bar and District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar. Educated at Harvard University (J.D., 1991) and University of Virginia (BA). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Appellate Practice (2026). Serands clients in Washington, DC and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Deanne E. Maynard, chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group, is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, and a former Assistant to the Solicitor General at the United States Department of Justice
- Ms. Maynard has argued 13 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, and she has filed over 100 briefs in that Court
- Her Supreme Court arguments include prevailing for the respondent in RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v
- Amalgamated Bank, an important bankruptcy case involving the rights of secured creditors
- She also argued and prevailed in Ransom v
- FIA Card Services, a case involving the interpretation of the federal bankruptcy statute
- Ms. Maynard also has substantial knowledge and understanding of cutting-edge antitrust and intellectual property issues
- Her Supreme Court arguments include the patent case MedImmune, Inc. v
- Genentech, Inc. and the antitrust casePacific Bell Telephone Company v. linkLine Communications, Inc. She also was a principal author of the briefs for the United States in Bell Atlantic Corp. v
- Twombly and Quanta Computer, Inc. v
- LG Electronics, Inc., and briefs at the certiorari stage in Bilski v
- Doll and American Needle, Inc. v
- National Football League
- In addition to her substantial Supreme Court experience, Ms. Maynard has argued and briefed significant cases in the federal courts of appeals
- Her appellate experience mirrors the wide-ranging litigation breadth of the firm, running the gamut from patent appeals in the Federal Circuit, where she has argued more than 15 appeals, to appeals in the other Circuits on antitrust, securities law, class action, and other intellectual property issues
- Ms. Maynard served in the Solicitor General’s office from 2004-2009
- Before joining the Solicitor General’s office, Ms. Maynard was a partner at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C
- Her practice at Jenner involved a wide variety of complex litigation matters at all levels of the federal judiciary, ranging from a multi-billion dollar government contracts case to media and First Amendment litigation
- After law school, Ms. Maynard clerked twice on the Supreme Court of the United States
- During the October 1994 Term, she clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer in his first year on the Court
- During the 1993 Term, she clerked for retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell and affiliated with Justice John Paul Stevens
- From 1991-1993, Ms. Maynard clerked for Judge Stanley Harris of the U.S
- District Court for the District of Columbia
- Ms. Maynard graduated magna cum laude in 1991 from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review
- She earned a B.A., with distinction, in English from the University of Virginia, where she was also Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa
- Ms. Maynard is Immediate-Past President of the Coke Appellate Inn of Court
- Ms. Maynard was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in 2012 for her recognized distinction as an appellate lawyer
- Ms. Maynard is recommended as a leading lawyer by Best Lawyers in America2013, Chambers USA 2013, and Legal 500 US 2014
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