Education

• Vanderbilt University

  (B.A., cum laude, 2001)

• New York University School of Law

  (J.D., 2004)
  Civil Rights Clinic, Employment Discrimination Section

Admissions

• State of Ohio
• State of New York
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Part of the litigation team that successfully arbitrated and settled a complex commercial contract dispute involving the construction of a large, mixed-use real estate project.
• Part of the litigation team that successfully settled complex contract disputes involving breach of fiduciary duty claims between and among the principals of a partnership and a limited liability company.
• Part of the litigation team that successfully obtained a preliminary injunction on behalf of a law firm and then settled trade secret and breach of fiduciary duty matter where attorney departed from the firm and improperly solicited clients.
• Part of the litigation team that filed injunction litigation and then successfully settled a trade secret and non-competition dispute involving an employee who left a company to work with a competitor.
• Part of the litigation team that obtained preliminary injunctive relief on behalf of large, nationally recognized bank in connection with a fraudulent kiting scheme.
• Part of the litigation teams defending nationally recognized law firms in professional liability litigation.
• Part of the litigation teams that successfully settled professional malpractice claims against large, nationally recognized law firms.
• Part of the litigation team that defended and successfully settled complex contract dispute involving claims of fraudulent inducement related to a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement and the calculation of EBITDA for an agreed earn-out period.
• Part of the litigation team that successfully prosecuted and settled an action based on fraud, conversion, and breach of contract on behalf of a real estate development company specializing in FHA-insured, multifamily real estate projects.
• Part of the litigation team that successfully defended pharmaceutical companies in multistate, multi-defendant pharmaceutical pricing litigations involving both state and federal fraud claims based on Medicare and Medicaid law, as well as the federal False Claims Act.
• Part of the litigation team that successfully defended an indenture trustee bank in a multiparty fraud action in the healthcare receivables industry.
• Part of the litigation team that successfully defended a nationally prominent nonprofit organization in a case involving the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Part of the litigation team that challenged a hospital disciplinary action in a sexual harassment matter and reached a favorable settlement.
• Part of the team that successfully represented a Department of Veterans’ Affairs engineer in a race discrimination case before the EEOC and ultimately obtained a successful recovery in federal court.
• Part of the litigation team that prosecuted and defended a number of complex commercial contract disputes.

Presentations

• “Maintaining Your Competitive Edge: Protecting Your Company’s Trade Secrets and the Enforcement of Non-Competes,” Northeast Ohio Association of Corporate Counsel Association (July 2014)
• “Determining LLC Citizenship for Purposes of Diversity Jurisdiction,” Internal Firm Presentation (November 2017)
• “Are Facebook and LinkedIn Process Servers for a New Generation? Emerging Law Regarding Service Via Social Media,” Internal Firm Presentation (February 2019)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (Women in Law Section Member)

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association/Federal Bar Association Reach Out for Non-Profits Program
• Greater Cleveland Food Bank (Volunteer)

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