Representative Matters
Business Disputes
- Successfully defended a former commodities company employee in a trade secret case, resulting in a favorable pre-trial settlement.
- Successfully represented a medical technology company in a theft of trade secrets and copyright infringement case, resulting in a favorable pre-trial settlement.
- Successfully represented an international medical device distributor in obtaining compensation for damage at their facility.
- Defended law firms in malpractice actions, securing summary judgment and appellate victories for clients.
Class Actions
- Achieved favorable settlement for a national furniture company before class certification in a putative class action defense.
- Defending a Fortune 100 company in a putative class action.
- Representing a class of residents and business owners in a class action for damages arising out of the September 2024 BioLab fire in Conyers, Georgia.
Appeals and Embedded Counsel
- Won affirmation of a $33 million jury verdict in the Georgia Court of Appeals, successfully defeating defendants’ petition for certiorari.
- Successfully represented sexual abuse survivors in the Georgia Supreme Court, securing a unanimous 8–0 ruling that opened a new avenue for lawsuits involving childhood sexual abuse by institutional leaders.
- Successfully appealed dismissals in two interconnected wrongful death cases involving complex statute of repose issues, resulting in reversal by the Georgia Court of Appeals and denial of the defendants’ petition for certiorari.
- Successfully represented a plaintiff in a medical device product liability case before the Eleventh Circuit on a complex preemption issue, reversing the dismissal and establishing significant precedent for future medical device cases.
- Successfully represented a government employee in a race discrimination case before the Eleventh Circuit, resulting in the reversal of the grant of summary judgment.
- Prevailed in a complex medical peer review privilege discovery dispute, winning a motion to compel and successfully settling the case before trial.
- Defeated statutory liability limitation motion to dismiss in a trucking accident case.
- Obtained a major verdict in a highway collision wrongful death case.
Professional Activities
- Association of Corporate Counsel Georgia, Women’s Initiative, Committee Member
- Federal Bar Association, Member
- Georgia Association for Women Lawyers, Member
- Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Member
- Health Law Partnership, Advisory Board
- Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys, Member
Credentials
Education
- Georgia State University College of Law, J.D., 2012, Summa Cum Laude
- Emory University, Master’s of Public Health, 2005, Honors
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 2002
Previous Experience
- Law Clerk, Judge Orinda D. Evans, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2012-2013
- Executive Director, HealthSTAT, Inc.
Admissions
- State Bar of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- Georgia Court of Appeals
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In The News
Thought Leadership
- Presenter, “A Day in the Life of a Jury Charge,” American Association for Justice, Trucking and Traumatic Brain Injury Conference, 2025
- Presenter, “Brilliant, Billable, and Burned the Eff Out,” Sisterhood of the 8 Annual Meeting, 2025
- Panelist, “Challenging SB 68 & Preserving Your Objections,” Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Annual Convention, 2025
- Presenter, “I’m All Out of Bubblegum: Appeals and Strategic Challenges to SB 68,” Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Auto Torts Conference, 2025
- Presenter, “Win Big, Don’t Eff it Up,” Cobb County Trial Lawyers Association, 2024
- Presenter, “Don’t Truck Up Your Appeal,” Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Auto Torts Conference, 2024
- Presenter, “Don’t Truck Up Your Appeal,” Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys, 2024