Potomac Law Attorneys Selected for Washington D.C. Super Lawyers List 2024

Potomac Law is pleased to announce that six attorneys have been named to the Washington D.C. Super Lawyers list for 2024, a distinction given to only five percent of attorneys in a state or region.

Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area.

The Potomac Law attorneys ranked in the Super Lawyers 2024 edition are:

Derek Adams – Business Litigation

Peter Asaad – Immigration

Devon Hewitt – Government Contracts

Julia Anne Matheson – Intellectual Property

Christopher Meazell – Intellectual Property

Janet Satterthwaite – Intellectual Property

Adams focuses his practice on False Claims Act defense, white-collar matters, government investigations, and litigation. He has broad experience representing clients facing allegations of financial and loan fraud, health care fraud, securities fraud, and other types of fraud throughout the country. Adams helps clients respond to government subpoenas or Civil Investigative Demands, and he regularly defends clients facing Department of Justice investigations and actions. He is a former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Asaad has 20 years of experience in immigration law. He has substantial expertise addressing the needs of corporate clients and individuals on business-related and employment-based matters. Asaad represents corporations to develop and manage streamlined immigration programs; start-ups and emerging growth companies with challenging employment authorization needs; founders and entrepreneurs to develop cases under O-1A and NIW; individuals with family-based immigration needs; nurses and hospitals with Schedule A green card matters; and organizations with their I-9, E-Verify, and SEVIS needs, among other.

Hewitt has over 25 years' of experience representing emerging, small, mid-size and large government contractors located across the United States and abroad. She is best known as a bid protest attorney, having participated in well over 200 bid protests lodged at various federal agencies, including the Small Business Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Government Accountability Office. She also has participated in bid protests filed at the United States Court of Federal Claims and is one of the few bid protest attorneys that has argued bid protest decisions on appeal at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Matheson is consistently recognized as one of the country’s top trademark lawyers, a practical and business oriented advisor, effective brand advocate, and strategist. In practice for more than 30 years, Matheson’s practice covers all areas of trademark, trade dress, product configuration, and unfair competition law including worldwide clearance, portfolio management, and enforcement, due diligence, false advertising, licensing, social media, and internet disputes. She has been lead counsel in well over 100 inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), and has significant experience litigating in federal district courts. Matheson represents clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies and multi-national organizations.

Meazell solves complex business problems through advocacy and counseling. He represents clients in a wide range of matters including contract and content licensing disputes, business torts, cases involving trade secrets and unfair competition, patent, copyright and trademark infringement, as well as bankruptcy litigation and the direction of regulatory and legislative strategy and compliance. He has particular expertise representing media companies of all sizes. Prior to law school, Mr. Meazell was a professional musician with extensive recording and performance experience.

Satterthwaite is an internationally recognized and versatile trademark attorney equally skilled in contentious and noncontentious matters. She provides one-stop guidance on worldwide trademark counseling, prosecution and portfolio management, licensing, enforcement/litigation, and cyberspace problems for brands across a variety of industries, from famous global brands to start-ups. Satterthwaite leads many trademark, domain name, copyright and false advertising lawsuits in federal courts and numerous other U.S. federal district and appellate courts and, with local counsel, in foreign countries.

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