Lucy Holifield | Chicago, IL
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Mayer Brown LLP
Lucy L. Holifield is a senior associate in Mayer Brown’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in Chicago.
Lucy represents national and multinational clients across industries in complex litigation involving individual and class actions, mediations and arbitrations, employment, banking and finance, and product liability matters. Her work also includes internal investigations and compliance, due diligence investigations, and complex settlements and negotiations. She has a wide range of litigation skills including deposing witnesses, managing expert and discovery teams, and drafting discovery and dispositive motions. According to clients, “Lucy is detail-oriented and responsive.”
Her interest in law sparked while working for a federal agency where she focused on conservation and land management. Years later, Lucy received her JD, summa cum laude, from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, where she served as an Articles Editor for the Law Review. She received her BA, cum laude, with distinction in two majors, Biology and Psychology, from Hendrix College.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Lucy served for two years as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Chief Judge Brian Stacy Miller in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. She is admitted to practice in both Arkansas and Illinois, and she was one of only a few associates nationally recognized as a BTI Client Service All-Star for 2020.