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Imara McMillan

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Imara McMillan represents clients in all facets of commercial litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Imara served as a law clerk to Judge R. Guy Cole of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and to Judge Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. 

Imara earned her J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and her B.A. in history cum laude from Wellesley College. While in law school Imara, participated in the school's Mental Health Advocacy Clinic and represented a client in his conditional release hearing. She formerly served as a legal intern with the Federal Defender of Maryland and as a legal intern with Cloudflare.

Imara McMillan represents clients in all facets of commercial litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Imara served as a law clerk to Judge R. Guy Cole of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and to Judge Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. 

Imara earned her J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and her B.A. in history cum laude from Wellesley College. While in law school Imara, participated in the school's Mental Health Advocacy Clinic and represented a client in his conditional release hearing. She formerly served as a legal intern with the Federal Defender of Maryland and as a legal intern with Cloudflare.

Keker, Van Nest & Peters Win for Sutter Health Included Among California's Top Verdicts

02/26/2025

The Daily Journal has named Keker, Van Nest & Peters's trial win for Sutter Health among the 2024 Top Verdicts in California. Read more

Law360 Trials Group Of The Year: Keker, Van Nest & Peters

02/18/2025

Keker, Van Nest & Peters partners Bob Van Nest, Sharif Jacob, Sophie Hood and Ryan Wong reflect on the firm’s biggest trial wins which earned its place among Law360’s 2024 Trials Groups of the Year. Read more

Three Keker Attorneys Selected for Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Programs

01/10/2025

Franco Muzzio, Imara McMillan, and Niharika Sachdeva are selected as Keker, Van Nest & Peters 2025 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellow and Pathfinders. Read more

Amicus Brief Supports Free-Speech Challenge to Online Age-Verification Law

09/20/2024

Keker, Van Nest & Peters attorneys Andy Bruns, Imara McMillan, Amos Espeland, and Courtney Liss filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging Texas’s HB 1181 online age-verification law. Read more

Sutter Health Wins Trial Over $519M Double-Billing Claims

06/20/2024

A California state judge has handed Sutter Health a win following a weeks-long bench trial last year over a whistleblower's claims that the nonprofit hospital network violated the state's insurance fraud prevention statutes. Read more

"'Enforcement through the Network': The Network Enforcement Act and Article 10 of the European Court of Human Rights," Chicago Journal of International Law, Summer 2019