Liane M. Peterson

Ms. Liane M.
Peterson is senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's IP Litigation and Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practices.
Ms. Peterson has extensive experience handling patent litigation in U.S.
District Courts and before the U.S.
International Trade Commission.
She focuses her practice on complex litigation in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields and has worked on a variety of disputes involving different technologies in the financial services, automotive, communications and electronics industries.
Ms. Peterson previously worked as a law clerk at the U.S.
International Trade Commission in the Office of Unfair Import Investigations dealing with Section 337 investigations of unfair trade practices.
Prior to law school she served as a research associate at The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md.
Ms. Peterson received her J.D., magna cum laude, from George Mason University School of Law (2003), where she was editor-in-chief of the Federal Circuit Bar Journal.
She also graduated magna cum laude from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (B.S., biology, 1997).