MacKenzie L. Deal

MacKenzie Deal focuses on nationally coordinated discovery and eDiscovery in complex automotive product liability litigation and class actions. She works with clients on discovery responses and document production, with particular attention to consistency across matters and the risk of sanctions or adverse rulings. Her practice includes defending major automotive manufacturers in product liability cases.

MacKenzie serves on the national discovery team for a major automotive manufacturer, representing the client in class actions and individual product liability cases. She has also handled individual cases involving rollovers, seat belts and seat backs. Her work spans state and federal courts in Arizona and matters elsewhere in the United States.

Alongside her discovery work, MacKenzie manages the day-to-day progress of active cases. Her responsibilities include developing defense strategies, taking depositions and preparing matters for trial. She has served as third-chair at trial in Arizona state court for a national automotive manufacturer.

Before joining Bowman and Brooke, MacKenzie completed an advanced legal writing clerkship at the Maricopa County Superior Court. There, she reviewed and analyzed dispositive motions in complex civil cases and drafted decisions on them.

• Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, J.D., 2010
  magna cum laude

  Pedrick Scholar

  Managing Editor, Arizona State Law Journal

• Arizona State University, B.A., 2005
  Dean's List

• Arizona, 2010

• Arizona Association of Defense Counsel

• "Death Penalty and the Law: A Discussion of the Arizona Supreme Court's 2008 – 2009 Decisions," Arizona State Law Journal, Summer 2010