Mary Pendarvis

Marketing Strategy & Digital Performance Lead

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Overview

Mary Pendarvis is a senior marketing and communications leader who helps law firms strengthen market visibility and turn business development priorities into measurable growth. With more than 15 years of experience in legal marketing, brand management, communications, and digital strategy, she partners with firm leadership to build marketing programs that drive awareness, engagement, and long-term brand authority.

In her role, Mary works closely with leadership and business development teams to enhance visibility for the firm’s private wealth disputes practice. She leads digital strategy, content development, website governance, search and AI visibility initiatives, marketing analytics, and vendor management, ensuring that marketing efforts support attorney credibility, referral relationships, and business growth. She also oversees thought leadership, public relations, and performance reporting to connect marketing activity with meaningful business results.

Throughout her career, Mary has led branding, digital marketing, CRM, analytics, and content initiatives that have strengthened visibility, engagement, and business development performance.

Mary has called New Orleans home for more than 20 years. Outside of work, you’ll often find her walking her dog along the bayou, exploring the city’s food, drink, and music scene, or spending time with her husband. She loves traveling, reading, and tackling a good puzzle.

Education

Loyola University New Orleans
B.A., Communications and English

Community & Professional Involvement

  • Member, Legal Marketing Association

  • Member, International Legal Technology Association

Representative Matters

  • Represented a beneficiary in a breach of contract to make a will action and secured a $7.4 million award after a multi-day trial.

  • Represented an esteemed trust and estate litigation attorney, who was sued by her beneficiary clients in a complex multi-jurisdiction multi-trust dispute.  We defeated defendants’ $45 million legal malpractice claim after a 12-day arbitration and achieved an award in favor of our client for unpaid fees.

  • Represented a non-profit beneficiary on claims of breach of contract to make a will, interference with prospective inheritance, and undue influence and fraud action.  We proved that the settlor had promised his millions to the non-profit arm of a fraternity he had dedicated himself to, and that the bad actor indisputably facilitated to the changes to the Trust to redirect the wealth to himself. The matter settled with the fraternity recovering nearly 100% of the promised bequest.

  • Represented heirs of a decedent to recover against a team of caregivers and a real estate agent who committed fraud and undue influence to con the decedent out of over $10 million in a portfolio of real properties and investments. The matter settled.

  • Represented a trustee against allegations of fault for a botched transfer of IRA funds to a non-qualified trust account.  The matter was resolved by settlement with the third-party transferee as the primary cause of the beneficiaries’ loss and avoided high attorney’s costs and potential penalties.

Awards & Recognition

  • Best Lawyers in America, Consumer Law, 2022-2026
  • “Super Lawyer”, Super Lawyers, San Diego, Estate & Trust Litigation, 2022-2026
  • Top 25: 2026 Women San Diego Super Lawyers, 2026
  • “Rising Star”, 2017-2021
  • “Women of Influence in Law”, San Diego Business Journal, 2024
  • Reisman Award for Best Growth Story, 2018
  • “Best of the Bar”, San Diego Business Journal, 2016-2017
  • AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated, by Martindale-Hubbell
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Community & Professional Involvement

  • Past Co-Chair, The State Bar of California: Access Through Innovation of Legal Services (ATILS) Task Force Rules Subcommittee
  • Past Chair Board, California Lawyers Association
  • Member, La Jolla Bar Association
  • Member, Probate Attorneys of San Diego 
  • Barrister, Hon. J. Clifford Wallace Inn of Court
  • Member, San Diego County Bar Association: Member of Civil Litigation, Real Property, and Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate Law Sections
  • Former President and Member, Irish-American Bar Association
  • Former Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers

Thought Leadership

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