Commercial Trial Experience
- Led Tractor Supply Company to a full defense verdict following a bench trial in Ellis County, TX.
- Obtained a multimillion-dollar jury verdict in Texas state court on behalf of an oil and gas company on a trial team she co-led that brought claims of breach of contract, misrepresentation of trade secrets, and breach of fiduciary duty.
- Led a trial team to a favorable bench trial award while representing an individual bringing claims against a moving company that damaged and lost his property in Dallas County, TX.
- Obtained a favorable jury verdict in Texas state court and secured the dismissal of counterclaims seeking $140 million at trial arising out of the sale of a business.
- Defended a life insurance company in both jury and bench trials in the Southern District of Indiana against claims seeking hundreds of millions of dollars.
Commercial Arbitration Experience
- Secured a full defense verdict after representing a health care company in a multiday arbitration hearing.
- Represented a health care services company in a multiweek arbitration hearing and successfully defended the arbitration award during multiple rounds of appeals.
- Represented health care companies in arbitrations involving breach of contract disputes with third-party vendors and care providers.
Jury Consulting Experience
- Provided trial support services to a client who needed experienced trial counsel to lend expertise to its previously hired outside counsel in the lead-up to trial by assisting with mock trial exercises and providing detailed case strategies based on feedback from mock jurors.
- Provided jury consulting services to multiple companies with a net worth exceeding a billion dollars by preparing jury selection questionnaires, leading jury selection, advising on strikes, and observing trial to advise on overall trial strategy.
- Joined multiple trial teams to assist with mock trials and mock arbitrations to provide advice on trial themes and theories that would resonate with jurors and arbitrators and to provide statistical analysis of information gathered during the mock trials.
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Experience
- Led multiple successful trial teams in prosecuting cases in the Northern District of Texas arising under the Hague Convention and the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, resulting in courts ordering children, who were abducted by one parent and brought cross-boarders, to return home.
- Argued and prevailed before U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on behalf of a Hague Convention applicant challenging the denial of his petition for the return of his child to her country of habitual residence.
- Prevailed in opposing an emergency motion for stay at the U.S. Supreme Court that would have delayed the return of a child to her home country in a case arising under the Hague Convention.
- Prevailed in opposing a petition for certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court related to the proper standard of review for an affirmative defense arising under the Hague Convention, resulting in a complete victory for the client.