Annamarie A. Daley is a partner in the Minneapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where she serves as an administrator for the Litigation Department, co-chair of the firm's Antitrust and Competition Law Practice Group, and as a member of the Intellectual Property Law Department. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, federal regulatory and intellectual property law matters. Ms. Daley has experience with numerous different industries and areas of the law, and she has defended her clients' legal rights in jurisdictions across the United States.
Ms. Daley has represented clients in federal and state antitrust, consumer protection and deceptive trade practice matters, as well as nationwide class action and intellectual property litigation. She has helped clients secure high-profile verdicts and summary judgments in numerous cases. For example, in 2006, as lead counsel for Arctic Cat Inc. in patent litigation involving electronic fuel-injection technology for two-stroke cycle snowmobile engines, Ms. Daley assisted in securing summary judgment for Arctic Cat on six separate legal grounds. For that result, the Minnesota Lawyer honored Ms. Daley as an Attorney of the Year for 2006.
Ms. Daley also counsels and represents clients in dealer and distributor matters, providing legal advice to clients on dealer relations and disputes, and appearing in numerous jurisdictions to enforce her clients' rights under dealer agreements or on behalf of her clients regarding dealership issues. She also regularly represents clients before arbitration panels, state regulatory agencies, and in state attorney general investigations. Additionally, Ms. Daley has represented clients in healthcare and class-action litigation, including a recent case in which she represented Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and other health insurers in national antitrust litigation involving claims regarding patent enforceability, patent validity, and patent infringement.
Ms. Daley also has extensive experience representing clients in federal and state regulatory matters, which include Section 15 reports, recalls, remedial action plans, consent decrees, compliance monitoring, proposed rulemaking and voluntary standards, and information-education campaigns. She regularly represents her clients' legal interests before the Consumer Product Safety Commission and has worked on matters involving the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Coast Guard and National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. She has more than 25 years of legal experience representing clients in the motor vehicle and power sports industry.
Ms. Daley has represented clients in a wide variety of industries including powersports, telecommunications, insurance, electronics, filtration, food and beverages, shoes, handcrafts and other home items, agricultural products, paint, cleaners, accounting, optical, restaurant and real estate.
Ms. Daley has received numerous professional distinctions over her career. In 2012, she became an Adjunct Professor, Trial Advocacy, at William Mitchell College of Law. In addition to being honored as a Minnesota Attorney of the Year 2006, Ms. Daley has been selected for inclusion in Minnesota Super Lawyers every year since 2000, and was named one of the "Top 50 Women Minnesota Super Lawyers" in 2010 and 2011, and one of the "Top 100 Minnesota Super Lawyers" in 2011. She was also listed in Best Lawyers in America in 2011. In 1997, she was named one of the Minneapolis Business Journal's "40 Under Forty" honorees. In 2002, Ms. Daley was selected as one of only five finalists considered for appointment to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Most recently, Ms. Daley was named one of 25 "Women Industry Leaders" by the Minneapolis Business Journal, and was honored with Martindale Hubbell's AV Preeminent Rating, a distinction awarded to less than 5 percent of women lawyers.
Ms. Daley is active in a number of civic and professional organizations. She serves on the Minnesota Federal Practice Committee, the advisory board of Minnesota Women Lawyers and as a board member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society. She has also held positions with the Advisory Committee on Rules of the Board on Judicial Standards, Minnesota Judicial Selection Commission, the Board for MacPhail School of Music, and the Minnesota 4-H Foundation. Ms. Daley is also a volunteer for the Guardian Ad Litem Program for the Minnesota Judicial Branch in the Fourth District.
Ms. Daley is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and is an elected member of the Governing Council of the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA) Civil Litigation Section. Additionally, she is a member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy; the American Bar Association (Antitrust and International Sections); the American Intellectual Property Law Association (Antitrust Section); Minnesota Women Lawyers; and the Federal, Minnesota State and Hennepin County Bar Associations.
She is admitted to practice in the State of Minnesota and before the U.S. District Courts for Minnesota and the Eastern Districts of Michigan and Wisconsin; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth, Ninth and Federal Circuits; and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ms. Daley received undergraduate degrees in political science magna cum laude and agricultural business administration with highest distinction from the University of Minnesota in 1980, where she was a Truman Scholar. In 1981, she earned a post-graduate degree in agricultural economics from the University of Reading, England, where she was a Marshall Scholar. Ms. Daley received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1984, where she was a Truman Scholar and completed a judicial externship with the Honorable Suzanne Sedgewick of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Publications
7/26/2011, Barnes & Thornburg LLP's Commercial Litigation Update - July 2011
01/01/2010, Minnesota Courtroom Evidence Deskbook - "Rule 803: Hearsay - Availability Immaterial"
07/24/2009, "Feesers v. Michael Foods: Competitive Injury Under the Robinson-Patman Act"
05/04/2009, Law360 - "Tracking Labels Under The New CPSIA"
04/29/2009, "Avoiding the Inadvertent Franchise: A Guide to Franchise Fees"
12/18/2008, "Recent Judicial Decision Regarding the Minnesota Unfair Competition Action and the Minnesota Motor Vehicle Sale and Distribution Act"
Events
1/19/2012, Women In Leadership: Exploring Pathways
09/23/2011, Attorney Presentation - NITA Program
5/25/2011, "Ponzi Scheme Clawback Lawsuits - What Are They Anyway, and How Could They Affect Me, My Family, and My Clients?"
2/22/2011, "Effective Depositions, Taking and Defending Rule 30(b)(6) Depositions"
9/16/2010, Theatre at Work, Twin Cities Diversity in Practice Professional Development Committee Program
8/17/2010, "The Instant Impact of PSKS, Inc. v. Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. on Analysis of Vertical Price Fixing Agreements Under the Rule of Reason Framework"
6/10/2010, "Managed Care Litigation- Antitrust, 2010"
11/1/2009, "Rule 803: Hearsay - Availability Immaterial"
9/12/2009, National Institute of Trial Advocacy
6/26/2009, "30 (b) (6) Business Depositions"
5/20/2009, "Strategic Discovery: Preventing Discovery Abuses and Handling Discovery Disputes"
3/3/2009, "Challenging Gender Bias with Positive Role Models in Theater, Society, and Law"
11/13/2008, National Institute of Trial Advocacy
11/7/2008, "30 (b)(6) Business Depositions"
11/3/2008, Rule 803: Hearsay - Availability Immaterial
9/14/2008, National Institute of Trial Advocacy
4/30/2007, "Effective Depositions: Taking and Defending Rule 30(b)(6) Depositions"
3/30/2007, Backpack to Briefcase Seminar at the National Association of Women Lawyers
10/14/2006, Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association Annual Seminar
9/21/2005, National Institute of Trial Advocacy
6/19/2005, "Modern Licensing Law: Ethical Issues"