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McGuireWoods LLP Offices

500 EAST PRATT STREET
SUITE 1000
BALTIMORE, MD 21202-3169
MARYLAND
United States
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Ava Lias-Booker

Position
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 former 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
United States > Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
(Leading trial lawyers)Ava Lias-Booker heads McGuireWoods LLP‘s Baltimore litigation team, and has a strong track record in defending clients that include major financial and energy companies in matters ranging from breach of contract allegations to accusations of racial discrimination. Lias-Booker has assisted clients in overturning considerable jury verdicts on appeal and is also well versed in tackling matters arising out of allegedly discriminatory lending practices.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading trial lawyers United States > Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Leading trial lawyers United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- 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 litigation: electric power
- 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
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- 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
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense