Liz Clark Rinehart
Partner
Her litigation experience spans the entire litigation life cycle, from pre-litigation strategy to appellate practice, but Liz is also passionate about helping clients avoid litigation through robust compliance reviews, business-savvy counseling, and strategic advocacy.
Liz maintains a diverse pro bono practice, including representing individuals in post-conviction and immigration proceedings and before the U.S. Supreme Court. She is also an active participant in Venable’s associate training and mentoring programs.
Related Practices
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Experience
Experience
Representative Matters
- Leading a litigation team for putative class action matters under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act and Maryland Consumer Debt Collection Act, including briefing a successful motion to dismiss
- Second-chaired a trial in federal court that brought claims for civil aiding and abetting and unjust enrichment related to a multi-million-dollar fraudulent scheme
- Primary drafter for appellate brief that prevailed in upholding an order dismissing as a sanction a federal enforcement action based on government misconduct during discovery
- Defending a telecommunications company in matters alleging violations of the Sherman Act and FCC rules
- Member of team representing a poultry producer against multiple class actions brought under the Sherman Act and state consumer protection statutes
- Member of a trial team that obtained a multi-million-dollar verdict in federal court based on fraud claims
- Member of a team that represented a technology company that provides cloud-based platforms to the healthcare industry, in a "junk fax" class action in Maryland federal court, and representing the company with respect to a related petition for an expedited declaratory ruling pending before the FCC
- Member of a team that represented a nail salon in a putative class action in Florida state court, alleging unsolicited autodialed telemarketing calls and calls to telephone numbers contained on the National Do Not Call Registry; plaintiff voluntarily dismissed her case (without settlement)
- Member of a team that represented a home security provider in a TCPA class action of first impression in Oklahoma federal court, arising out of telemarketing calls placed by a lead generator that utilized soundboard technology, and representing the company with respect to a related petition for an expedited declaratory ruling pending before the Federal Communications Commission
- Member of a team that represented a top online women's fashion store in a putative TCPA class action in Florida federal court, alleging the use of an autodialer to send marketing text messages to consumers without their consent
- Member of a team that successfully removed a putative consumer class action to federal court and obtained an order compelling individual arbitration that was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Member of a team that successfully defended a payment processing company that was the subject of a CFPB investigation; the investigation was closed without any recommended enforcement action
- Member of an appellate litigation team that successfully defended the dismissal with prejudice of trade secret misappropriation and related claims in excess of $50 million on behalf of an Italian software company in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Successfully defeated a motion to remand to state court based on lack of Article III standing in a putative class action
- Member of a team that obtained a dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction in a trade secret misappropriation case against an international chemical technology company
- Represented a company facing a breach of contract lawsuit and negotiated a confidential settlement for significantly less than demanded
Insights
Insights
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- J.D. magna cum laude University of Maryland School of Law 2015
- Order of the Coif
- Certificate in Environmental Law
- Sam Allen Memorial Prize for Excellence in Leadership and Scholarship
- Joseph Bernstein Award for Legal Writing
- Judge Simon E. Sobeloff Prize for Constitutional Law
- Editor in Chief, Maryland Law Review
- B.A. Social Work Salisbury University 2011
- B.A. Russian Language and Literature magna cum laude University of Maryland 2003
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Honors Program
- Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- U.S. Supreme Court
Clerk Experience
- The Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- The Honorable Roger W. Titus U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Recognition
Recognition
- Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2021 – 2023
- The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2021 – 2024