Mary Grace Braun

Mary Grace Braun

Associate
San Diego
About

Mary Grace Braun is a litigation associate who focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, consumer class actions, and product liability and mass tort litigation. Mary Grace has represented pharmaceutical companies, product manufacturers, and food and beverage companies in both state and federal court.

Mary Grace has experience defending class actions brought under various state consumer protection laws, in addition to handling product liability and mass tort claims and other complex business disputes. In her first year of practice, Mary Grace was named "Rookie of the Year" by DLA Piper's Product Liability, Mass Torts & Class Actions Litigation Group.

Mary Grace is also actively involved in the San Diego legal community, as an associate in the Louis M. Welsh Inn of Court and a member of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.

 
Areas of FocusLitigation, Arbitration and InvestigationsClass Actions
Bar admissionsCalifornia
CourtsUnited States District Court for the Southern District of California

EXPERIENCE

  • Achieved favorable settlement for an education technology company in two breach of contract disputes brought in the Southern District of California
  • Helped to obtain dismissal with prejudice for an agriculture cooperative in defense of four putative class actions filed in federal court in Missouri, Florida, Wisconsin, and Maryland, where claims were brought for violations of the respective state consumer protection statutes and state law related to allegations of improper labelling of almonds
  • Representing an agricultural cooperative in the defense of a putative consumer class action pending in California state court seeking to challenge its sustainability statements
  • Representing a pharmaceutical company in federal court in a commercial contract dispute regarding contingency value rights from a prior acquisition
  • Representing a product manufacturer in the defense of a putative class action pending in the Western District of Missouri asserting a consumer protection claim

Pro Bono

Mary Grace regularly works on pro bono matters, including providing pro bono legal services to military veterans.
Education
  • J.D., University of San Diego School of Law
    cum laude
    Comments Editor, San Diego Law Review
  • B.A., The George Washington University
    summa cum laude
    Phi Beta Kappa
    News Anchor and Reporter, GW-TV

Publications

Prior Experience

During law school, Mary Grace served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Daniel E. Butcher in the United States District Court of the Southern District of California. She also served as a law clerk at the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California and a legal intern at the San Diego City Attorney's Office.

Additionally, Mary Grace mentored first-year law students as a Teaching Assistant for Legal Writing & Research, while also serving on the editorial board of the San Diego Law Review.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Associate, American Inns of Court, Louis M. Welsh Inn
  • Association of Business Trial Lawyers
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Phone

+1 619 699 2762
(Work, San Diego)