Valerie A. Slater heads the firm’s international trade practice and serves on the firm’s management and diversity committees, as well as the Washington office diversity committee. Ms. Slater concentrates on trade regulatory matters.
Ms. Slater represents clients in proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. She has extensive experience with antidumping and countervailing duty cases, and with other types of unfair trade litigation, including “escape clause” cases. Ms. Slater advises clients on WTO and trade policy matters. She is a member of the Bar of the U.S. Court of International Trade and in 1998 was appointed to serve on the Court’s Advisory Committee on Rules. She has experience in filing, prosecuting, intervening in and arguing appeals of administrative antidumping and countervailing duty determinations before the court. Her trade litigation experience includes cases involving both traditional and non-market-economy cases, and the resolution of trade cases through suspension agreements.
Ms. Slater received her B.A. magna cum laude in 1974 from Allegheny College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law in 1977. Ms. Slater is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
In 2007 Ms. Slater was named by Legal Times as one of the 10 leading international trade lawyers in Washington, D.C. She is listed as a top international trade lawyer in the 2008 - 2010 USA and 2008 Global editions of Chambers Guides to the World’s Leading Lawyers, the 2008 edition of Legal 500, the 2008 edition of Who’s Who Legal and The Best Lawyers in America (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009).