Year Joined Organization: 2006

Lawyer Overview

Danielle Conley is a senior associate in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department. She joined the firm in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Conley completed a clerkship with the Honorable Rosemary M. Collyer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Practice

Ms. Conley's current practice encompasses complex commercial litigation and government litigation. She has participated in the representation of major corporations before federal and state courts and in arbitrations. Ms. Conley has also devoted a significant portion of her practice to representing clients on a pro bono basis.

Prior to her clerkship, Ms. Conley was an associate in the litigation department of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York.

While in law school, Ms. Conley was the principal organizer of a small group of students that drafted and submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), supporting the University of Michigan Law School's use of a race-conscious admissions program. As a result of her work on the brief, she was selected to speak at several forums at Howard University about affirmative action in higher education.

Professional Activities

Ms. Conley is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She currently co-teaches the appellate advocacy course for the Charles Hamilton Houston National Moot Court Team at Howard University School of Law.

Honors and Awards

Ms. Conley is a recipient of the firm's Pickering fellowship in Washington, DC, established in honor of John H. Pickering. She will spend six months practicing at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) in New York.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation/Controversy

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York

Education

• Howard University School of Law, 2003
  JD
  Honors: cum laude
• Tulane University, 2000
  BA, English and African Diaspora Studies

Published Works

• Amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Grutter v. Bollinger, 2003

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