Shawna L. Ballard

Shawna Ballard is a trial lawyer with decades of complex trial, arbitration, mediation, and litigation experience. Shawna is known for her ability to develop cohesive and effective case strategies in complex, multi-faceted cases. She is one of the firm’s founding partners and serves as General Counsel for the firm.

In her broad-based practice, Shawna has handled disputes regarding industrial, energy, and real estate contracts, financing arrangements, corporate acquisitions and restructurings, patent infringement, securities investments, false advertising, fraud, unfair competition, trade secrets, director and officer liability, trusts and fiduciary duties.

In January of 2020, Shawna was on the trial team that secured a $236 million willful infringement jury verdict for Densify against VMware. Also, that same year, the firm received the “Turnaround Award” from The M&A Advisor based on her successful negotiation of a favorable settlement for Reynolds Metals Company (an Alcoa Corporation affiliate) in litigation brought by Gregory Powers Partners.