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Audrey McQuade

Associate

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+1.617.348.1848

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Audrey is a skilled attorney whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation matters for clients in a variety of industries, with a specialization in cross border asset recovery. She has experience representing creditors and claimants pursuing asset recovery, often through litigation aimed at piercing fraudulent schemes and offshore asset protection devices. Audrey is adept at handling all stages of the litigation life cycle including drafting and responding to complaints, managing voluminous discovery, motion practice, and witness and trial preparation, as well as negotiation and alternative dispute resolution including mediation. She has experience conducting legal research, drafting memos, briefs, and motions, assisting with discovery, as well as negotiating settlement agreements in complex commercial disputes. 

Audrey has defended clients against class action claims arising under state consumer protection laws, particularly those brought against landlords and property managers by residential tenants. She is well-versed in Massachusetts utility submetering laws and the Massachusetts consumer protection act, chapter 93A. Audrey has also represented clients in False Claims Act (FCA) investigations in both the health care and the construction industries.

She maintains an active pro bono practice, with a particular focus on immigration and domestic violence. 

Audrey has also held numerous leadership roles in figure skating organizations. Her multiyear involvement with US Figure Skating, the sport’s national governing body, has included serving on the organization’s Athlete's Advisory Committee and the Ethics and Technical Panel committees as an athlete representative. Audrey is also a four-time US National Champion and two-time world bronze medalist in synchronized skating.

In law school, Audrey served as a staff writer on the Boston College Law Review and participated in the school’s Immigration Clinic. Audrey was a Summer Associate at Mintz in 2019.

Experience

  • Representing a client in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in the enforcement of a $300 million award issued in an arbitration in Singapore. 
  • Successfully represented a victim of domestic violence at a 209A restraining order extension hearing, securing a permanent restraining order for the client. 
  • Negotiated a settlement for two national construction companies to avoid False Claims Act suit over a $100M+ public project involving alleged failure to comply with minority and women-owned business enterprise requirements; prepared witnesses for government depositions, saved significant legal costs by narrowing subpoena scope, and secured favorable agreement allowing continued work on public construction projects.
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viewpoints

Mintz attorneys represented advocacy groups that intervened in federal litigation to support a temporary selection process for Boston’s exam schools for the 2021–2022 school year. A federal district court judge held the plan to be race-neutral, and Special Counsel Andy Nathanson helped counter the plaintiff’s motion to stop the plan’s implementation during the appeal process. Following revelations of new evidence, the district court judge reaffirmed his ruling.
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News & Press

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In a perspective column for the New York Law Journal, Mintz Member Jason P.W. Halperin, a former federal prosecutor, provided an overview of the death penalty in the United States and offered historical and current arguments for why it should be removed from the criminal justice system altogether. Specifically, the piece examined the federal and state death penalty dichotomy, its history before the U.S. Supreme Court and how it has been implemented in a discriminatory manner, and looked at the national movement away from capital punishment. 
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Involvement

  • Associate Board Member, First Literacy (2020 – Present)
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