Michael Kenneth Hilyard
Associate
- NEW YORK Phone: 212-808-1055 Fax: 212-351-3401
Mr. Hilyard’s practice focuses on intellectual property and technology-related litigation.
Before joining Desmarais LLP, Mr. Hilyard worked as a Process Engineer at one of GlaxoSmithKline’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing plants. During law school, Mr. Hilyard was a senior editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He obtained a Master of Bioethics interdisciplinary degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. He was also the vice president of the Penn Intellectual Property Group, and a member of the Order of the Coif.
Before joining Desmarais LLP, Mr. Hilyard worked as a Process Engineer at one of GlaxoSmithKline’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing plants. During law school, Mr. Hilyard was a senior editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He obtained a Master of Bioethics interdisciplinary degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. He was also the vice president of the Penn Intellectual Property Group, and a member of the Order of the Coif.
Prior Experience
- Associate, Desmarais LLP, New York, 2021-2022
- Summer Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, 2020
- Summer Associate, Desmarais LLP, 2019
- Process Engineer, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 2017-2018
Clerk & Government Experience
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Kent Jordan, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2022-2023
Other Distinctions
- Order of the Coif
- University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Senior Editor
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2021, magna cum laude; University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Senior Editor; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Master of Bioethics (MBE), 2021Villanova University, M.S., Biochemical Engineering, 2018; B.S., magna cum laude, Chemical Engineering, Minors in Bioengineering, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Business, 2017