RebeccaWoods

Partner

Commercial & Construction Litigation

rwoods@seyfarth.com

Atlanta

+1 (404) 885-7996

Washington, DC

+1 (202) 828-5387

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Clients trust Rebecca to problem solve and fight to win when litigation is necessary. 

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Rebecca is a seasoned commercial litigator with more than 25 years of experience handling complex commercial litigation matters, including real estate and joint venture disputes, construction litigation, commercial contract disputes, and insurance coverage and indemnity matters. She regularly represents property owners, developers, investors, financial institutions, manufacturers, hotel and hospitality operators, public power and utility entities, and local governments in high-stakes contract disputes. She handles bet-the-company and reputationally sensitive matters, including disputes with exposure exceeding $1 billion.

Rebecca’s practice is national in scope. She is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, equally adept at jury trials, bench trials, and arbitration. She has handled matters in Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas, and has argued before the Supreme Courts of Georgia and Delaware and numerous courts of appeals.  

Rebecca fights to win and she is a fierce and eloquent advocate for her clients. Judges and juries alike find her persuasive and trustworthy. She is keen on optimizing litigation outcomes and she focuses on the "litigation return on investment." This means collaborating with in-house counsel and their business partners, actively managing the litigation, right-sizing the team, and smartly using tools, including artificial intelligence and quantitative decision trees.

Rebecca chairs the Atlanta Litigation group and co-chairs the national Commercial Litigation practice group. She is also on the firm’s Partner Board (an elected governance body), and she is on the Leadership Team for the Litigation Department.

Rebecca is a trained personal coach and a Six Sigma Green Belt. She has significant internal mentoring and coaching responsibilities, and she relishes teaching younger attorneys how to litigate in smarter and more efficient ways.

  • JD, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

    Ohio State Law Journal, editor-in-chief
    Order of the Coif
    With honors

  • BA, The Ohio State University
    Political Science and Women's Studies

    Summa cum laude
    The Phi Beta Kappa Society
    With distinction for Honors Thesis

Clerkships

  • Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (Salt Lake City, The Honorable Michael Murphy).
  • District of Columbia
  • Georgia
  • US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit
  • US District Court, District of Columbia
  • US District Court, Northern District of Georgia
  • District of Columbia Court of Appeals
  • Supreme Court of Georgia

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