M. Celeste Bruce Email & Phone Number

Celeste Bruce’s reputation is well earned. Her sought after counsel has been forged at the toughest intersections where business and law meet, enabling her to guide clients step-by-step through their most pressing challenges. Always pragmatic, she is a commanding practitioner in the boardroom, the courtroom and at the negotiating table.Her experience includes but is not limited to litigating commercial, business, stockholder and partnership disputes and dissolutions, land use and zoning matters, contract disputes, fraud and fraudulent transfers, commercial bankruptcy adversarial proceedings, preferences disputes, derivative claims, employment disputes, appeals and appellate practice, and regulatory and agency adversary proceedings. She has represented clients on matters involving sports franchise and media rights law, business torts, corporation and partnership dissolution, corporate governance, election law and referendum issues, franchise disputes, asset purchase agreements and sales, stock purchase and sale agreements, business entity creation and dissolution, and catastrophic injury and medical malpractice.Prior to joining RWL she was a law clerk and then an associate with the boutique litigation firm Marcus & Bonsib, LLC.Celeste is a past president of the Federal Bar Association’s Maryland Chapter and has been instrumental in creating and organizing the Maryland Chapter’s Women in the Law Program. She currently fosters rescue dogs and was a long-time member of the Board of Trustees of Imagination Stage.

Listed skills include Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation, Appeals, and 10 others.

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  Partner; Co-Chair, Complex Civil And Commercial Litigation Practice

  Rifkin Weiner Livingston Llc

  Nov 2000 - Present - Bethesda, Maryland

  Celeste Bruce offers almost 30 years of experience in business transactions as well as broad-based commercial, complex civil and high stakes, ‘bet the company’ litigation in state and federal courts and before administrative and arbitral tribunals.She is highly sought after—by clients and peer counsel—in the practice areas of:• Complex Civil and Commercial Litigation• Bet-The-Company Litigation• Sports Franchise and Media Rights Law• Business and Commercial Transactions• Corporate Governance• Shareholder/Partnership Disputes and Dissolution• Administrative Law and Regulatory ComplianceBar Admissions: Maryland; District of Columbia; U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland; U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitFor more information, please visit www.rwllaw.com and Celeste’s firm bio: https://www.rwllaw.com/team/m-celeste-bruce/.