Christopher S.Maynard (Chris)

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Jones Day mourns the loss of Chris Maynard, who passed away on September 12, 2024. Chris spent his entire legal career at the Firm and played a key role in many successful trials. In 2017, Chris asked to be assigned full time to Jones Day's Border Project in Laredo, Texas, where he became one of the most knowledgeable lawyers in the country on immigration law related to asylum. His dedication to the Project was unsurpassed, from mentoring junior lawyers to building the data management systems used in Laredo to track and measure the work of the Project. Chris went to extraordinary measures to advocate for justice, and he will be deeply missed.

Chris Maynard is an experienced litigator focused on internal and SEC investigations, antitrust issues in IP litigation, and pro bono matters.

Chris has been dedicated to managing the day-to-day operations of the Border Project after leading a team that obtained relief for one of the earliest clients engaged in the project. He also has had substantial roles in internal investigations and related government investigations of Volkswagen AG and Wal-Mart, Dell, and others. He has obtained summary judgment, affirmed by the Fifth Circuit where members of a cellular communication standard-setting organization were alleged to have conspired to remove technology from a standard. He was a member of the trial team that resulted in a take nothing bench verdict for Texas Instruments, affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court, regarding claims that Texas Instruments had materially breached a cross-license agreement. He also helped achieve favorable resolution of federal class action and opt-out lawsuits and state indirect purchaser class action lawsuits alleging a price-fixing conspiracy in In re Methionine Antitrust Litigation.

Chris has represented a number of pro bono clients — unaccompanied minors in immigration matters and federal prisoners seeking commutation through the Clemency Initiative. Two of the latter received commutations on the Obama Administration's penultimate day. He is a member of the Texas State Bar and Dallas Bar Association. He is a graduate of Leadership Arts and helped create the Leadership Arts Alumni Association and the Patricia A. Porter Fellowship in Arts Management.

Experience

  • Honduran woman and her two children obtain asylum based on religious persecutionAfter a trial win and success in two appeals by the government to the Board of Immigration Appeals, Jones Day obtained asylum relief for a Honduran woman and her children.
  • Salvadoran woman granted withholding of removal after nine months in detentionJones Day obtained relief for a Salvadoran woman who had been in the United States for several years.
  • Dell obtains dismissal of securities litigationJones Day represented Dell Inc., the individual defendants and present and former directors of Dell's Board in securities litigation, derivative cases, and ERISA class actions filed in the Western District of Texas, Travis County state court and Delaware Chancery court.
  • EDS resolves consolidated securities fraud action and ERISA class actionJones Day represented Electronic Data Systems Corporation and certain of its current and former officers and directors in a consolidated securities fraud action arising out of EDS' disclosure in September 2002 that its earnings would be lower than anticipated.
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