Shawn C. Layman
Overview
Shawn C. Layman is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Litigation Group, resident in the Washington, D.C. office. He has extensive litigation experience working on complex class actions and mass tort matters involving thousands of claims. Shawn has significant experience in all phases of discovery practice, including participating in discovery depositions, attending evidentiary hearings, and managing large-scale document reviews.
Upon graduation, Shawn spent more than 10 years in private practice litigating insurance and corporate defense claims. Shawn also served as a law clerk in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County.
Career & Education
- Florida State University, B.S., 2003
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 2007
- District of Columbia
- Florida
Shawn's Insights
Firm News | 5 min read | 06.16.21
Civil Rights Groups Achieve Voting Rights Victory in Louisiana
New Orleans – June 16, 2021: Voice of the Experienced (VOTE), a Louisiana-based grassroots organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated people, and Advancement Project, a next-generation, multi-racial civil rights organization, along with Crowell & Moring LLP, celebrated the enactment of Act 127 – H.B. 378 in Louisiana, which was signed into law on June 10, 2021. The bill will ensure that individuals sentenced only to probation will not lose their voting rights due to a felony conviction, and will prevent government officials from expending unnecessary resources to suspend voting rights, and then having to work to restore them for people who should not have been suspended from voter rolls in the first place. More than 30,000 people are currently estimated to be on probation in Louisiana, and the new law will help additional people each year as new individuals are sentenced to probation.
Representative Matters
- Representing AT&T in its proposed merger with Time Warner.
- Representing a health care services company in a multidistrict mass tort litigation.
- Representing the Regents of the University of California in patent infringement litigation.
- Representing a defense contractor in trade secret litigation.
Shawn's Insights
Firm News | 5 min read | 06.16.21
Civil Rights Groups Achieve Voting Rights Victory in Louisiana
New Orleans – June 16, 2021: Voice of the Experienced (VOTE), a Louisiana-based grassroots organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated people, and Advancement Project, a next-generation, multi-racial civil rights organization, along with Crowell & Moring LLP, celebrated the enactment of Act 127 – H.B. 378 in Louisiana, which was signed into law on June 10, 2021. The bill will ensure that individuals sentenced only to probation will not lose their voting rights due to a felony conviction, and will prevent government officials from expending unnecessary resources to suspend voting rights, and then having to work to restore them for people who should not have been suspended from voter rolls in the first place. More than 30,000 people are currently estimated to be on probation in Louisiana, and the new law will help additional people each year as new individuals are sentenced to probation.
Shawn's Insights
Firm News | 5 min read | 06.16.21
Civil Rights Groups Achieve Voting Rights Victory in Louisiana
New Orleans – June 16, 2021: Voice of the Experienced (VOTE), a Louisiana-based grassroots organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated people, and Advancement Project, a next-generation, multi-racial civil rights organization, along with Crowell & Moring LLP, celebrated the enactment of Act 127 – H.B. 378 in Louisiana, which was signed into law on June 10, 2021. The bill will ensure that individuals sentenced only to probation will not lose their voting rights due to a felony conviction, and will prevent government officials from expending unnecessary resources to suspend voting rights, and then having to work to restore them for people who should not have been suspended from voter rolls in the first place. More than 30,000 people are currently estimated to be on probation in Louisiana, and the new law will help additional people each year as new individuals are sentenced to probation.
