Danielle Desaulniers Stempel
Senior Associate Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
As a senior associate in our Appellate practice, Danielle Desaulniers Stempel focuses on appellate litigation in federal and state courts. Her experience spans a range of topics, including including administrative, patent, antitrust, energy, health care, constitutional, and criminal law. Danielle has briefed cases at every level of the federal judiciary, including five merits cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in state intermediate courts and courts of last resort. She has also argued before the Maryland Supreme Court, the Third Circuit, and in state trial court.
Danielle maintains a robust pro bono practice. She served as a Special Attorney for the State of Minnesota in the prosecution of the four former police officers charged in connection with the death of George Floyd. Danielle has also represented clients in reproductive justice cases, and in challenging the Family Separation Policy, the federal government’s lethal injection protocol, and the male-only military draft requirement.
Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Danielle clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. While attending the University of Virginia School of Law, she served as the Editor in Chief of the Virginia Law Review and was a finalist in the Lile Moot Court competition. Before law school, Danielle spent three years working as an associate at a federal consulting firm.
Credentials
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, Order of the Coif, 2017
- B.A., The George Washington University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2011
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland