Dineo Mpela-Thompson is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP and is a member of the firm's Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice.
Prior to joining Foley, Ms. Mpela-Thompson was a researcher for The Federal Capital Habeas Project and research assistant for the Treatment Action Campaign. During law school, she was a summer associate at Foley (2008) and legal clerk for the AIDS Legal Project at Duke University School of Law.
Ms. Mpela-Thompson is a graduate of Duke University School of Law (J.D., 2009). While there, she was co-chair of the Duke Law Democrats, director of Street Law and on the executive board for the Black Law Students Association. She participated in the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition and Hardt Cup Moot Court Competition. Ms. Mpela-Thompson earned her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University (Douglass College) (B.A., with high honors, 2005), where she was an Institute for Women's Leadership Scholar and received the Jewel Plummer Cobb Award which is awarded to an African American with the highest GPA and strong extra-curricular involvement.
Ms. Mpela-Thompson authored, "Wealth, not Income: Student Discussions on Money and Freedom," New Brunswick: Global Literacy Press in 2005. She also presented "'Embracing the Earth for Women's Leadership: Comparing Women's Leadership Development Programs in the East and the West': Theories and Challenges of Women's Leadership Development," at the Women's Worlds 2005, 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Seoul, Korea.
Ms. Mpela-Thompson is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.