Education & Credentials
Education
University of Michigan
B.A., 2011University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
J.D., 2014- summa cum laude
- Frank Murphy Honor Society
- National Appellate Advocacy Team
Bar Admission
Acknowledgements
- DBusiness Magazine
- "Top Lawyer," Litigation-- Intellectual Property, 2025
- Michigan Super Lawyers®
- "Rising Star", Business Litigation, 2022-2024
- Best Lawyers in America®
- "Ones to Watch," Commercial Litigation, 2021-2022, 2024-2025
- Crain's Detroit Business
- "Nonpartner Associate of the Year," 2018
- Ralph Freeman Scholarship, awarded by Chief Judge Gerald E. Rosen
- Patrick A. Keenan Appellate Advocacy Competition
- Top 10 Oralist Award
Representative Clients
- University of Michigan
- Bestway USA, Inc.
- SunStone Information Defense, Inc.
Prominent Assignments
Secured a Section 337 patent infringement victory before the International Trade Commission, obtaining a General Exclusion Order covering multi-panel folding pick-up truck bed cover products imported into the United States.
Secured a jury verdict of willful copyright infringement in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, securing the greatest possible recovery for a large consumer products client.
Secured a jury verdict of willful copyright infringement and willful trade dress infringement—as well as a verdict of no liability on competitor’s Lanham Act false advertising claims—in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Secured a jury verdict of no liability on competitor’s claims of defamation and trade libel in United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
On the eve of closing arguments, favorably settled patent litigation brought by client SunStone Information Defense, Inc. against one of the largest computer companies in the world in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Professional Involvement
- State Bar of Michigan
- Defense Research Institute
- Member of Young Lawyers' Planning Committee
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Publications/Presentations
- The Risk of Silence: Allocating the Risks of Buyers and Sellers Through the Use of Pro- and Anti-Sandbagging Provisions, Business Law Journal (State Bar of Michigan), Spring 2019
- With Non-Competes under Attack, What Role for the Courts?, Daniel D. Quick, A. Pellegrino, Litigation Journal (State Bar of Michigan), Winter 2018
- Merger and Integration Clauses and Fraud: What Dies with the Deal?, Daniel D. Quick, A. Pellegrino, State Bar of Michigan Litigation Section, Litigation Journal (Winter 2017)
- Predictive Coding: Where Are We Now?, A. Pellegrino, S. Petz, S. Hamilton, Michigan Defense Quarterly, Vol. 33 No. 1 (2016)
- Attorney-Client Privilege Protections and Employer-Provided Technology: When Does the Employee’s “Expectation of Privacy” End and When Do You, as Counsel, Have an Obligation to Warn the Client?, S. Hamilton, S. Petz, M. Alamo, and A. Deskins, Michigan Defense Quarterly, Vol. 31 No. 3 (Jan. 2015)