Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: McDermott Will & Emery adds former Department of Justice official, (Jul 2, 2013)

Former Deputy Associate Attorney General A. Marisa Chun has joined McDermott Will & Emery as a partner in the firm’s Trial Practice Group, according to a recent announcement. She will be based in McDermott’s Silicon Valley office.

At the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Chun advised the Associate Attorney General on various civil and criminal matters, including overseeing those involving antitrust, intellectual property, health care fraud, telecommunications, and financial fraud issues. She concurrently served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2011 to 2013 and for the District of Maryland in 2012, where she investigated and tried criminal cases to verdict. Before returning to the Department of Justice in 2009, she was a partner at a highly regarded boutique law firm in San Francisco, where she litigated complex commercial matters at the trial and appellate levels involving antitrust, unfair business practices, intellectual property rights, trade secrets, business torts, employment, and First Amendment issues.

Chun previously served as a trial attorney and senior trial attorney at the Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Boochever of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

McDermott Will & Emery is an international law firm with a diversified business practice and more than 1,100 lawyers practicing in offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C.

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