Shaelyn Dawson is an attorney in the litigation department, with a focus on intellectual property. Shaelyn represents clients in technical and high-stakes litigation, focusing primarily on patent, copyright, and trade secret cases in the electronics, semiconductor, and pharmaceutical industries. She has experience in all phases of litigation. She has coordinated large-scale fact and expert discovery, taken and defended dozens of fact and expert depositions, drafted and argued motions in multiparty litigation in federal courts across the country, and been a key member of six trial teams, where she questioned fact and expert witnesses.

In addition to her intellectual property work, Shaelyn also maintains an active pro bono practice, and has been awarded the Wiley W. Manuel Certificate for Pro Bono Legal Services by the State Bar of California for the last two years. She has worked on several Section 1983 civil rights trials.

Shaelyn received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2012 where she had a merit scholarship. While at Fordham, she served as the Senior Articles Editor for the Fordham International Law Journal. She received her LL.M. (Intellectual Property) from New York University School of Law in 2013.

Prior to joining Morrison and Foerster, Shaelyn served in a two-year term as a clerk to the Honorable Evan Wallach of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Shaelyn is admitted to practice law in California and before the Federal Circuit.