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Law 2025: JANET P. PEYTON
RICHMOND OFFICE MANAGING PARTNER, MCGUIREWOODS, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Law 2025: JANET P. PEYTON
RICHMOND OFFICE MANAGING PARTNER, MCGUIREWOODS, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Leader of the state’s largest law firm’s Richmond office since 2023, Peyton is an attorney who specializes in intellectual property and data privacy and security. Working with clients in a wide range of industries, including retail, manufacturing and higher education, Peyton assists with strategic management of U.S. and foreign trademark portfolios, licensing and transactional intellectual property services.
Recently, Peyton was part of a McGuireWoods team that won Impact Case of the Year at the Managing IP Americas Awards in April.
Peyton is a past chair of the Virginia State Bar’s intellectual property section, and she is a former board chair of The New Community School.
After earning a degree in history and public policy at Duke University, Peyton graduated from Tulane University Law School.
WHAT PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT ME: As a child, I was a member of the National Children’s Choir and sang in a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Trial by Jury” for the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1970s.
BOOK I’D RECOMMEND: “Blind Spots,” by Dr. Marty Makary
