Honors and Awards:

• Graduated from law school Order of the Coif, AV rated for over five years by Martindale-Hubble; named as an Ohio Super Lawyer 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010; firm rated Preeminent by Martindale-Hubble since 1998; named in the 2011 inaugural edition of the Bar Register of Preeminent Women Laywers - only woman listed in Ohio for Civil Trial Practice
• Received the Order of the Coif, which is awarded to the top 10% of each law school graduating class., 1992

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Memeber , Hamilton County Trial Lawyers Association
• Member of the Editorial Board for the Ohio State Bar Association Jury Instructions Committee
• Member of the Cincinnati Bar Association
• Member of the Ohio Association of Justice
• Member of the Ohio State Bar Association

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Member - Sycamore Community Band
• Member of the Cincinnati-Munich Sisters City Association
• Vice President of the Executive Board for Pilgrim Chapel United Church of Christ

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Author of the following published articles: 1.  "One Bankruptcy is Ennough, 78,000 is Too Many -- Protection of Retirement Benefits Under the Retiree Benefits Bankruptcy Protection Act of 1998"Cite:  61 U. Cin. L. Rev. 715 (1992).  This law review article discussed the case of In re Chateaugay Corp., 945 F.2d 1205 (2nd Cir. 1991), cert. denied, 112 S. Ct. 1167 (1992), and how it effected the bankruptcy protection afforded to retirment plans., Author, University of Cincinnati Law Review
• This article explores the various ways to get a life care plan admitted into evidence in catastrophic injury cases., Author, "The Admissibility of Life Care Plans", Ohio Trial Magazine Spring 2007, Ohio Academy Of Trial Lawyers, 2007
• This article explores the effect of changing the language in Ohio's Wrongful Death Statute from "minor" child to "dependent" child and the conflict this potentially creates between different sections of the statute., Author, "Wrongful Death: A Minor Change?", Ohio Trial Magazine, Summer 2009, Ohio Association For Justice, 2009

Verdicts and Settlements:

• I have participated in trials, which have resulted in some of the highest verdicts in southern Ohio in the area of medical malpractice.  We have also settled numerouse large cases in the fields of medical malpractice, products liability and personal injury. We recently represented a young man in one of the many pending pain pump product liability cases.  Despite hundreds of cases being filed across the country, we were the only firm to discover and allege that the CEO and other high officials of the pain pump manufacturer were profiting from the sale of their stock in the company.  The CEO had intentionally suspended a program being implemented by his company to warn physicians of the use of the pain pump in the joint space.  During the time the warning was suspended, we found that he exercised his stock options and sold large quantities of his shares at the highest price ever for the stock.  After the warning program was finally implemented, the stock plummeted, leaving most investors out in the cold.