Practice Areas:

Litigation

• Appellate
• Commercial and Insurance
• Complex/Class Actions
• Product Liability

Product Safety

• Risk Management
• Product Recalls
• Regulatory Compliance
• New Product Counseling

Education:

• Stanford Law School, J.D.
• Cornell University, B.A., magna cum laude, Comparative Literature, with distinction in all subjects

Notable Experience:

• Advisor on CPSIA, CPSA, Industry Standards, and California's Proposition 65
• Lead counsel for company in nationwide recall for lead in a children's product

• Representation of one of the world’s largest parachute manufacturers in a wrongful-death products liability case
• Counsel for national window manufacturer in potential class action
• Representative of medical insurer against complex breach of contract and commercial tort claims
• Attorney for large investment bank in contentious Chapter 11 adversary proceeding
• Attorney for corporate officers and directors facing lender liability claims
• Law clerk to Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fairbanks, Alaska

Awards and Honors:

• Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review
• Awarded Stanford Law School's Hilmer Oehlmann, Jr. Prize for Outstanding Written Work

Bar and Court Admissions/Memberships:

• Admitted to the Ohio Bar and the Bars of all federal courts in Ohio
• Admitted to the California Bar and the Bars of all federal courts in California
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• Federal Bar Association (FBA)
• Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA)
• California State Bar Association (CalBar)
• Akron Bar Association (ABA)
• Medina Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
• International Association of Defense Counsel (Legal Writing Contest Committee Member) (IADC)
• International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO)
• Judge John M. Manos American Inn of Court

Corporate and Civic Involvement:

• The Children's Center of Medina County Board Member (2012)
• Volunteer for the USO and Girl Scouts
• 2009 Co-Chair of the annual Friends and Neighbors of Every Woman's House of Wayne and Holmes County Golf Scramble
• 2008 Co-vice Chair of the annual Friends and Neighbors of Every Woman's House of Wayne and Holmes County Golf Scramble

Publications and Lectures:

• Finding Free Legal Research Sites and Free Case Law in Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web 29 (National Business Institute, 2009).
• Government Internet Resources: Federal, State and Local, National Business Institute Lecture (May 7, 2009).
• Ethically Representing Thousands of Plaintiffs: Conflict Problems in Mass Toxic Harm Cases, 67 Defense Counsel Journal 419, 462 (2000).