Ava Lias-Booker > McGuireWoods LLP > Baltimore, United States > Lawyer Profile
McGuireWoods LLP Offices
500 EAST PRATT STREET
SUITE 1000
BALTIMORE, MD 21202-3169
MARYLAND
United States
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Ava Lias-Booker
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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading trial lawyers United States > Dispute resolution
- Leading trial lawyers United States > Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious