Marilee L. Miller is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP and is a member of the Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Privacy, Security & Information Management Practices. She has experience assisting clients with a broad range of litigation matters, including privacy and security issues, media law, white collar defense and government investigations, trade secrets/noncompetes, and distribution and franchise law with a particular emphasis on handling cases involving emergency injunctive relief.
Ms. Miller has successfully handled a number of cases in state and federal courts nationwide involving the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and the Communications Decency Act (CDA). She has experience with both defense of defamation actions on behalf of media companies and prepublication review. Ms. Miller recently co-authored, "Court Rejects Heightened Standard in Pre-Suit Petitions to Unmask Anonymous Internet Commenters," in the June 2010 edition of Media Law Letter. Before attending law school, Ms. Miller was a professional journalist and worked for such media outlets as Bloomberg and Congressional Quarterly.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Miller completed clerkships with Chief Judge Tena Campbell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah and Justice Ronald E. Nehring of the Utah Supreme Court. She also served as a law clerk for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Ms. Miller maintains an active leadership role in the firm, having served as co-chair of the firm's summer program and a member of the firm's Pro Bono Committee. She maintains an active pro bono practice, as well, specializing in immigration/asylum work and criminal matters. She takes particular pride in community involvement with such memberships and affiliations as:
· United Way of Washington, D.C., Regional Council member
· Northwestern University Leadership Circle, Regional Council member for Washington, D.C.
· Northwestern University Alumni Association, various positions, including Reunion Planning Committee member
· Firm liaison, Thurgood Marshall Academy Charter School
· Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, associate trustee
· Executive board member and secretary, University of Utah Alumni Association for Washington, D.C.
Ms. Miller graduated from Northwestern University's, Medill School of Journalism (B.S.J., 2001, M.S.J., 2002) and the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2006), where she was an editor of the Utah Law Review. While attending law school, she was a William H. Leary scholar, a teaching assistant for legal writing and constitutional law courses, and the leader of the school's public interest law group and Phi Delta Phi chapter. She received multiple awards for her achievements in legal writing and other courses.
The Utah Law Review selected her comment, "The Employer Strikes Back: The Case for a Broad Reading of Title VII's Anti-Retaliation Provision," 2006 Utah L. Rev. 505, for publication.
Ms. Miller is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States.