Amanda E. Koenig is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Washington, D.C. office. Amanda focuses her practice on patent litigation, including ITC 337 investigations and intellectual property licensing. Amanda’s work has involved a broad range of technologies, including telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.
While in law school, Amanda was enrolled in a joint degree program through which she received her master’s degree in bioethics. Amanda was also on the editorial boards of the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology and the Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal, and served on the William Minor Lile Moot Court Board.
In 2005, Amanda won first place in The Food and Drug Law Institute’s 2004-2005 H. Thomas Austern Short Paper Writing Awards Competition (for papers 40 pages or less) for her paper titled: “FDA Policy, Protectionism, and Pregnancy: The Unjust Exclusion of Pregnant Women from Participation in Clinical Research Trials Studying Prescription Drugs and the FDA’s Duty to Change the Current Situation.”
Amanda is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia.
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2005
- University of Virginia, M.A., 2006
- Georgetown University, B.S., 2000
