Rachel Blitzer, Elana Nightingale Dawson, and Monica Groat Named 2024 Women Worth Watching in STEM
Partners Rachel Blitzer and Elana Nightingale Dawson and counsel Monica Groat have been named among Profiles in Diversity Journal’s 2024 Women Worth Watching in STEM, which recognizes high-achieving women in STEM “who are blazing trails for women and girls everywhere who want to build a successful and satisfying career in science, technology, engineering, or math.”
Rachel Blitzer, an experienced intellectual property litigator, represents clients in technically complex cases relating to trade secrets, patent infringement, copyright, breach of contract, and associated business torts. In addition to her extensive trial experience, Blitzer’s practice includes consulting clients at all stages (from start-up to Fortune 500 companies) on sound IP strategy in order to best position them for monetization, asserting or defending future litigation, and compliance with their management and financial reporting duties. In addition to her commercial work, Blitzer maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes political asylum petitions, immigration appeals, Violence Against Women Act self-petitions, unemployment insurance representations, will drafting and end-of-life planning, patent prosecution and counseling for small entities, and case reviews for The Innocence Project.
Elana Nightingale Dawson represents market-leading technology companies in their most pressing, high-stakes matters at the intersection of digital content, technology, and the law. Nightingale Dawson guides clients in every stage of product development and deployment, from counseling clients on the copyright implications of cutting-edge technology to crafting litigation strategy for trial and appeal. Ms. Nightingale Dawson brings a unique combination of deep trial court experience along with appellate experience, which includes successful arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the First, Fourth, Seventh, and Federal Circuits, as well as a clerkship for US Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
Monica Groat advises clients on complex regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters involving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She handles clients’ most sensitive issues relating to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and tobacco industries, helping clients to anticipate and mitigate risks. As a recognized leader of the FDA bar, Groat is a member of the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Enforcement Conference Planning Committee and has spoken on a podcast about changes in FDA guidance with respect to real-world evidence and guidelines for off-label marketing.