Piper’s practice focuses on complex commercial and financial services litigation. She has extensive experience representing individuals, financial institutions, and corporate clients in federal and state courts as well as in enforcement actions. Piper’s successful advocacy has resulted in numerous dismissals, beneficial settlements, and favorable awards at trial and arbitration.
Piper advises her clients on legal issues spanning all phases of complex multi-party litigation through trial, including drafting and arguing dispositive motions, conducting discovery, taking and defending depositions, and participating in mediation. She is passionate about developing legal strategies to help her clients achieve their goals.
Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Piper managed a broad-based practice focused on a variety of civil litigation matters, including products liability, toxic tort, construction, and general liability.
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LMU Loyola Law School Los AngelesJD
Note & Comment Editor, Staff Member, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
2013 -
University of California, BerkeleyBALegal Studies
with Honors
2009
Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation, 2024
Selected for Inclusion, Daily Journal, “Top Verdicts,” 2020
- Author, Consolidated Financial Account Reports and Use of Vendors: FINRA Continues Regulatory Scrutiny, Subject to Inquiry, February 2, 2021
- Author, Recent SEC and FINRA Guidance to Impact Firms’ COVID-19 — and Post-COVID-19 — Operations, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 26, 2020
- Author, Update No. 9: Financial Services Regulators and SROs Continue to Address COVID-19 Impact, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 21, 2020
- Author, Update No. 8: FINRA Continues to Address COVID-19 Impact on Financial Industry, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 14, 2020
- Author, Update No. 7: SEC Urges Municipal Issuers to Voluntarily Expand Disclosures, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 7, 2020
- Author, Update No. 6: Financial Regulators, SROs Continue Providing COVID-19-Related Relief, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 28, 2020
- Author, Update No. 5: Financial Regulators, SROs Continue Providing COVID-19-Related Relief, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 21, 2020
- Author, Update No. 4: Financial Regulators Continue Issuing COVID-19-Related Relief, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 15, 2020
- Author, Financial Services Regulators and SROs Continue to React to COVID-19 Developments, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 6, 2020
- Author, FINRA Releases Its 2020 Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities, Subject to Inquiry, January 15, 2020
- Author, SEC Announces 2020 Examination Priorities, Subject to Inquiry, January 8, 2020
- Author, Youth Matters: Miller v. Alabama’s Implications for Individualized Review in Juvenile Sentencing, 46 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 775, 2013
- California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Speaker, Remote Mediations, May 12, 2020