Maura has significant experience leading and coordinating all aspects of complex litigation at all stages of a case, including written motion practice, fact and expert discovery, and trial preparation in both bench and jury trials, including pre-trial submissions, dispositive motions, motions in limine, witness preparation, direct and cross-examination strategy, and proposed jury instructions and verdict forms. In the investigations arena, she leads interviews, supervises data collection and production, and reports findings and remedial recommendations to boards of directors, often incorporating employee training programs and consequence-management protocols.
Maura also counsels clients on e-discovery, data retention, and cross-border information governance issues. She regularly designs and implements global programs that reconcile US litigation-hold obligations with European and UK data-protection requirements and oversees large-scale remediation of structured and unstructured data to achieve defensible deletion determinations.
Maura maintains an active pro bono practice at Mayer Brown. Recent successes include securing the highest compensable rating for a service-connected disability appeal before the Board of Veterans’ Appeals and advising the Vance Center of International Justice on issues related to international human rights standards.
Maura joined Mayer Brown in 2015, after earning her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was awarded the Parker School Certificate of Achievement in International and Comparative Law, and spent six months at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences-Po Paris where she studied European Union law, international litigation and arbitration, and competition law.
Maura was previously seconded to the litigation and enforcement divisions of two international financial institutions, Credit Suisse’s General Counsel Litigations and Investigations Group and HSBC’s Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement, and Investigations Group, where she worked on a variety of civil litigation, regulatory enforcement, and internal investigations matters.
