Focus Areas
Financial Services
- Representing a bank in action to recover losses from fraud and breach of contract in connection with a merchant account used to process fraudulent credit card transactions
- Representing an investment bank in action to recover fee for advising a nonprofit health care system in a merger
- Defending a bank and an investment manager in bankruptcy litigation seeking to claw back redemptions from investments in Madoff Ponzi scheme
- Defending a bank against claims for compensation for allegedly brokering lending opportunity
- Representing a bank in litigation involving potential liability to customers
- Representing a company in an international arbitration arising from a securities financing deal
- Defending an energy technology company in an SEC fraud action
- Defending a broker and a clearing firm against customer claims, including in FINRA arbitrations
- Representing a financial institution in an internal investigation related to mortgage-backed securities
- Defending a hedge fund principal in a securities fraud action related to the fund’s collapse
Art Law
- Representing an artist’s estate in a probate dispute
- Defending an art supplies manufacturer against a copyright infringement claim
- Defending a fashion retailer against a copyright infringement claim
- Representing the family of deceased artist to recover value of artwork damaged in storage
- Defending a photographer against Lanham Act, right of privacy, and fraud claims
- Providing contractual advice to an arts foundation
Life Sciences
- Representing pharmaceutical company in dispute with vendor providing services related to submission of New Drug Application
- Representing biotech company in dispute over distribution and intellectual property rights for cosmetic and agricultural products
- Defending pharmaceutical company in a securities fraud class action related to its promotional practices
Complex Contractual Disputes
- Representing luxury retailer in promissory note dispute with former shareholder
- Representing investment bank in dispute over calculation of transaction fee for advising on nonprofit hospital merger
- Representing an engineering and construction company in contractual disputes related to indemnification and insurance
- Representing a regional food producer and distributor in a contractual dispute with a technology vendor
- Representing a construction company in disputes against the City of New York
Investigations, Regulatory Matters, & White Collar
- Representing individual accountant charged with wire fraud
- Representing accounting firm in regulatory matters, investigations, and subpoenas
Employment and Unfair Competition
- Defending against broker dealer “raiding” and unfair competition claims
- Representing a broker dealer in an arbitration involving breach of its operating agreement and employment agreements by former managers
- Defending a company and its CEO in an employment discrimination and whistleblower case
- Representing an engineering and archaeology firm in litigation arising from an employee maritime fatality
- Co-author, “New York Courts Severely Curtail Litigation Activity in Response to COVID-19 Crisis,” Thompson Hine COVID-19 Update, March 2020
- Co-author, “No Liability for Banks Under New York’s EIPA,” Thompson Hine Business Litigation Update, November 25, 2013
- “Obligations When Third Parties Control Data,” The New York Law Journal, October 7, 2013
- Co-author, “Business Litigation Update: Zubulake Discovery Standards Adopted By New York State Courts, Thompson Hine Business Litigation Update, February 28, 2013
- Co-author, “The Arbitration Fairness Act: Performing Surgery with a Hatchet Instead of a Scalpel?” Albany Law Review, 2010 to 2011
- Selected for inclusion in the New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, 2017
Professional Associations
- New York City Bar Association, member; Art Law Committee, 2018-2021; Litigation Committee, 2014-2017
- New York State Bar Association, member, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law section
- American Bar Association, member, 2014-2017
- Women in Bio, Metro NY chapter, former Vice Chair for Events and Steering Committee member
Community Activities
- Neighbors Together, Board of Directors, 2014-2020; Chair, 2018-2020
- Fordham University Mentoring Program, mentor, 2013-2014
- NYS Bar Association High School Mock Trial Attorney-Advisor, 2013-2014
- NYCLU Young Professionals, 2008-2009
Education
- Columbia Law School, J.D., 2006,
Kent and Stone Scholar; managing editor, Journal of Gender and Law
- Fordham University, B.A., 1998, summa cum laude,
in cursu honorum
Bar Admissions
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- New York Courts Severely Curtail Litigation Activity in Response to COVID-19 Crisis,
COVID-19 Update
, March 24, 2020