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Allyson Portney is a senior associate in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. She joined the firm in 2007.
Practice
Ms. Portney has a general commercial litigation practice with an emphasis on intellectual property disputes and appellate matters. She has represented clients in patent infringement, licensing, and contract disputes involving a wide variety of technologies including medical devices, mobile communications and digital imaging and video compression.
As part of her pro bono practice, Ms. Portney is a member of the WilmerHale team that represents six Bosnian-Algerian men wrongfully interned at Guantanamo Bay, one of the firm's largest and most important pro bono cases. On June 12, 2008, the US Supreme Court issued a historic decision in Boumediene v. Bush, striking down the part of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that sought to strip federal habeas corpus jurisdiction over Petitioners imprisoned at the United States Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay.
Ms. Portney received a JD from the Boston University School of Law, where she received the Rappaport Fellowship for Law and Public Policy. During law school, Ms. Portney worked for the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, where she researched and drafted memoranda on criminal law, administrative law, civil litigation and evidence.
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