RebeccaWoods

Partner

Commercial & Construction Litigation

rwoods@seyfarth.com

Atlanta

+1 (404) 885-7996

Washington, DC

+1 (202) 828-5387

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Rebecca focuses on problem-solving and resolving disputes in ways that best support her clients' business interests.

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Rebecca chairs the Atlanta Litigation group and co-chairs the national Commercial Litigation practice group. She focuses on problem-solving and resolving disputes in ways that best support her clients' business interests. Clients in pre-litigation disputes and extant litigation disputes turn to Rebecca for help with myriad complex contractual and business tort issues. She “majors” in three overlapping areas: real estate (joint ventures, residential and commercial leases, boundary lines, development agreements, and purchase and sale agreements), construction (design and construction defects, including in commercial and manufacturing settings), and insurance (advice and counseling regarding CGL, professional liability, errors and omissions, representations and warranties, D&O, and property coverage). Her 24 years of practice gives her broad, and deep, experience litigating other matters, too.

Rebecca counsels clients on litigation avoidance, maximizing pre-litigation positioning, and resolving disputes in a way that most benefits their business interests. Whether it's in the pre- or post-litigation context, she helps clients resolve underlying or endemic challenges to help avoid repeat disputes.

In the litigation context, Rebecca uses a variety of Lean Solutions Litigation Tools—Early Case Assessment, Quantitative Decision Tree Analysis, a robust budgeting tool, and Lean Solutions staffing—to right-size the litigation for the exposure. She runs matters with a focus on the "litigation return on investment," and collaborates with in-house counsel and their business partners to optimize the outcome. Rebecca actively manages litigation, keeping an eye open for exit ramps and settlement opportunities at every juncture. In her practice, she relies on deep thinking and analysis, persistence, and her strong "soft skills" to elevate her practice.

Rebecca is an experienced first-chair trial lawyer, and if resolution efforts have failed, she is a fierce, and eloquent, advocate for her clients. Judges and juries alike find her persuasive and trustworthy. Her people talents allow her to optimize the performance of her witnesses, from operators to experts to C-Suite executives. She is just at ease presenting a litigation or settlement strategy to a Board of Directors as she is donning PPP and climbing paper machines or silos to understand all the nuances of a case.

She is a trained personal coach, a Six Sigma Green Belt, and has strong people skills that help with clients, business partners, opposing counsel, experts, judges, and jurors. With significant internal mentoring and coaching responsibilities, she teaches younger attorneys smarter and more efficient ways to litigate.

  • 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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