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Thaila K. Sundaresan

Senior Associate

Sundaresan, Thaila K.

Thaila K. Sundaresan is a senior associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department and a member of the Business Trial Group. She joined the firm in 2011.

Past Experience

Prior to joining WilmerHale, Ms. Sundaresan was a litigation associate at a law firm in Washington DC.

She also served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Theodore A. McKee of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit as well as for the Honorable Deborah K. Chasanow of the US District Court for the District of Maryland.

Community Involvement

Ms. Sundaresan currently serves on the Alumni Board of the University of Maryland School of Law.

Prior to law school, Ms. Sundaresan was the director of leadership giving for United Way in Chicago, Illinois. She led a department that helped generate fourteen million in contributions from donors in Fortune 500 companies, and developed a strategic proposal that resulted in the organization’s first one million corporate matching grant. Additionally, she was the founder and executive director of Circle of Love, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for the elderly and disabled.

Practices

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Education

JD, magna cum laude, University of Maryland School of Law, 2008, Leadership Scholar, Order of the Coif, Order of the Barristers

BA, International Relations, minor in Spanish, with honors, Stanford University, 2000

Bar Admissions

California

District of Columbia

Massachusetts

Languages

Spanish

Tamil

Clerkships

The Hon. Theodore A. McKee, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2010 - 2011

The Hon. Deborah K. Chasanow, US District Court for the District of Maryland, 2008 - 2009