Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Commercial & Business Litigation
• Labor & Employment Relations
• Product Liability Litigation

Representative Clients

• American General Assurance Company
• ConAgra Foods
• Ford Motor Company
• J.P. Morgan Chase, N.A.
• Trane U.S. Inc.

Prominent Assignments

• Law Clerk to The Honorable John Corbett O'Meara, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1998-1999

Education

• J.D. (cum laude), Wayne State University Law School, 1998
  - Order of the Coif
  - Managing Editor, The Wayne Law Review, 1997-1998
  - Member, Moot Court, 1996-1998
  - Silver Key Certificate, 1996-1997
  - Fred B. Rothman Award, 1995-1996
• B.B.A. (with distinction), University of Michigan, 1990

Admitted to Practice

• Michigan, 1999
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1999
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 2001

Professional and Community Involvement

• Member, State Bar of Michigan
• Member, Defense Research Insitute (DRI)
• Member, Michigan Defense Trial Counsel (MDTC)
  - MDTC DRI Diversity Committee Liaison

Publications and Presentations

• Co-author, Guide to Michigan Statutes of Limitation (ICLE 2008)
• Co-author, Civil Procedure, Annual Survey of Michigan Law, June 1, 2000-May 31, 2001, 48 Wayne L. Rev. 415 (2002)
• Comments, "Domestic Violence and Shared Parental Responsibility: Dangerous Bedfellows," 44 Wayne L. Review 1745 (1999)