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Michael Kenneth Hilyard

Michael Kenneth Hilyard

Associate, New York
PHONE: 212-808-1055 FAX: 212-351-3401
Michael Hilyard’s practice focuses on intellectual property and technology-related litigation.

Before joining Desmarais LLP, Mr. Hilyard worked as a Process Engineer at one of GlaxoSmithKline’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing plants. During law school, Mr. Hilyard was a senior editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Mr. Hilyard obtained a Master of Bioethics interdisciplinary degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Mr. Hilyard was also the vice president of the Penn Intellectual Property Group, and a member of the Order of the Coif.

Prior Experience

  • Associate, Desmarais LLP, New York, 2021-2022
  • Summer Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, 2020
  • Summer Associate, Desmarais LLP, 2019
  • Process Engineer, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 2017-2018

Clerk & Government Experience

  • Law Clerk to the Hon. Kent Jordan, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2022-2023

Other Distinctions

  • Order of the Coif
  • University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Senior Editor

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EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2021, magna cum laude; University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Senior Editor; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Master of Bioethics (MBE), 2021

Villanova University, M.S., Biochemical Engineering, 2018; B.S., magna cum laude, Chemical Engineering, Minors in Bioengineering, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Business, 2017

ADMISSIONS

2022, New York

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