Mary Kostel

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24 years of experience
Personal Injury, Products Liability
District of Columbia, District of Columbia, Ms. Kostel is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and Virginia.

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Ms. Kostel is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and Virginia.

Professional Experience

: Current; Ms. Kostel was an attorney at Shea Gardner prior to its combination with Goodwin Procter in 2004. Previous to joining Shea Gardner, Ms. Kostel was in the Communications and Electronic Commerce group at Wilmer, Cutler Pickering, where she represented a variety of clients in federal court as well as before the Federal Communications Commission and several state public utility commissions. Before that, Ms. Kostel was a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she defended federal statutes against constitutional challenges, advocated federal agencies’ construction and application of complex statutory and regulatory schemes, and represented federal agencies in employment discrimination actions.Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Kostel clerked for the Honorable Sam C. Pointer, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, and the Honorable James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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