Education
J.D. Rutgers University Law School, with high honors

B.A. Douglass College,
with high honors

Memberships
Pennsylvania Bar Association, Civil Litigation Section

Philadelphia Bar Association, Federal Courts Committee

Women’s President Organization

Clerkship
New Jersey Supreme Court,
The Honorable Alan B. Handler

Licenses to Practice
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Two Commerce Square
2001 Market St.
Suite 3420
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7042
T (267) 861-5331 | F (267) 350-9050
mkbrown@bsnlawyers.com
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Mary Kay focuses her practice on business litigation and has successfully represented her clients in federal and state courts throughout the country. Her practice covers a wide range of business matters including theft of trade secrets, unfair competition and covenants not to compete.  Mary Kay also handles intellectual property matters, including copyright and trademark infringement, and corporate governance and control issues such as shareholder and partnership disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and director and officer as well as other professional liability claims. She also handles general commercial contract disputes, real estate-related litigation and financial institutions litigation.
Representative work includes:

• Successfully represented national IT staffing company in action against former president who sold his company to the client and then formed and “incubated” directly competitive businesses by stealing key management personnel and utilizing company resources.
• Achieved favorable settlement in defense of a non-compete action between two Fortune 50 competitors in the food industry involving departing high level executive.
• Successfully represented clients in major copyright cases, securing both monetary settlements and a consent order that client owned and had validly registered its copyright and was the original author of the infringed work.
• Represented maker of automotive parts in a $53 million replevin action to obtain critical tooling necessary to prevent shut down of vehicle manufacturing lines.
• Represented financial institution in borrower lawsuit alleging breach of contract and conversion which concluded with the voluntary withdrawal of the complaint against the bank.
• Won a preliminary injunction for a franchisor prohibiting franchisee from opening competing business in or around surrounding territory.
• Successfully represented major coal client in contract dispute for long-term supply of coal including a favorable settlement on the client’s counterclaim.

Additionally, Mary Kay has gained significant experience over the years in the preservation and production of electronic evidence and its use at trial. She is a frequent speaker and author on electronic discovery issues and is often consulted by clients and other lawyers for advice in this emerging area. Mary Kay’s peers have selected her as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer®, an honor conferred upon the top 5% of lawyers in Pennsylvania, for the past four consecutive years.