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Top Women Lawyers

May 12, 2011

Mary Christine (M.C.) Sungaila

Snell & Wilmer LLP Location: Costa Mesa Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Appellate



Of the more than 30 briefs filed at the U.S. Supreme Court about whether 1 million women employees can sue Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Sungaila's may be one of the most unusual.That's how she likes it. Sungaila strives to come up with innovative, outside-the-box approaches to appellate issues, she said.


"She's very creative, lots of ideas," said her partner at Snell & Wilmer, Richard A. Derevan.


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