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Ava Lias-Booker

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Career

Ava Lias-Booker is a partner at McGuireWoods LLP and leads the Baltimore litigation practice as a seasoned first chair trial and appellate lawyer representing businesses in complex commercial and civil litigation. She serves in a number of leadership roles at McGuireWoods. She is Chair of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and a member of the firm’s Diversity Action Council and firm wide Associates Committee. She is also the former managing partner of the firm’s Baltimore office. For some three decades, Ava has been leading teams to win bench and jury trials, as well as appellate cases, in multimillion dollar disputes. She has represented clients from a broad range of industries, including financial, energy, telecommunications and retail in class action litigation and complex civil disputes resolving contractual and statutory claims, shareholder disputes, lender liability claims, products liability and toxic tort claims, UCC actions and claims arising under a variety of consumer financial services statutes in state and federal courts.