Summer L. Elliot

Complex Litigation

Summer is frequently involved in high-stakes and complex litigation, and has assisted her teams with:

• Leading case-related tasks in complex medical device litigation across multiple state and federal courts, demonstrating a strong ability to navigate intricate legal frameworks and rapidly adapt to new technological and regulatory challenges.
• Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams on high-profile tech-related litigation, including MDLs and product liability cases, enhancing trial preparation and litigation strategy in the intersection of technology, regulation and innovation.
• Conducting complex financial analyses and preparing detailed deposition materials.
• Drafting discovery motions and pleadings regarding Constitutional legal issues related to First Amendment privilege laws, due process rights, and states’ sovereign immunity rights.
• Drafting dispositive motions in complex regulation cases, quickly acquiring particular knowledge of FDA food safety regulations, Medicare and Medicaid rules, regulations applicable to Transportation Network Companies, or state and federal privacy laws, and translating it into persuasive legal arguments
• Contributes to industry and client updates and work product as part of the firm’s artificial intelligence team.

These experiences have allowed Summer to adapt an enhanced ability to process large amounts of information, prioritize tasks and work efficiently under high-pressure situations, allowing her to efficiently meet clients’ goals and business needs.

Prior Experience

As a summer associate at Faegre Drinker, she researched and wrote a compliance manual on new and upcoming state privacy laws and website compliance. Summer also contributed to multiple litigation actions via research memos dealing with conflicts of interest, contract fraud and product liability.

During law school, Summer focused on the crossover of technology and the law, including increasing societal focus on digital rights, privacy rights, the advent of artificial intelligence, transparency in government and its technology use, and the equality of investigative and digital tools for criminal defendants. Additionally, Summer conducted research for Dean Erwin Chemerinsky focusing on the changing landscape of the Supreme Court and constitutional rights and issues in the modern world.

Prior to law school, Summer served in the U.S. Peace Corps in a business agriculture project in Ghana. She organized more than 60 cashew farmers into a formal training group for cashew farm maintenance, record keeping, climate-smart practices and savings-and-loan associations to help the farmers sell collectively to large cashew buyers. Summer also fundraised $11,000 and executed a clean-water extension access project for 1,000 community members and a school, in addition to planning and implementing countrywide youth leadership and technology camps for 200 students.

Previously, Summer worked at HP Inc., where she was a services and solutions worldwide financial analyst. One of her projects was creating analytics, a reporting structure and reporting models for the new $1 billion HP Device as a Service (DaaS) initiative.

Personal Interests

Outside the office, Summer enjoys plant-based cooking, trying sustainable and “off grid” living techniques, hosting dinner parties, audiobooks, writing songs, running with her dog, and planning adventures with her partner. She aims to travel to all seven continents and has two left to complete.