My goal is to be a trusted business partner for my clients. Every matter requires a different approach, and business goals should drive litigation strategy--not the other way around. I help clients defend commercial litigation and products liability matters, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical and medical device matters. I represent a global leading medical device manufacturer in products liability matters throughout the country, particularly in California and Minnesota state courts. I also represent a major grocery retailer in public nuisance claims in several bellwether matters around the country. I represent numerous other clients, primarily in the life sciences market, in commercial litigation matters around the country. I am also passionate about diversity, inclusion, and belonging in the legal industry. Many people have worked to give me the opportunities I have had, and I devote a substantial portion of my time to ensuring other diverse attorneys and law students have similar opportunities. Outside of my billable work for clients, I have a pro bono practice focusing on civil rights and immigration law, particularly representing LGBTQ+ asylum seekers.

During my time at Gibson Dunn, I gained a wide variety of experience in various business litigation and pro bono matters. Representative experiences include: - Representation of a major medical device manufacturer against claims that a number of its products infringed a patent owned by a non-practicing entity, a suit in which the medical device manufacturer won summary judgment of non-infringement. The patent was invalidated via inter partes review. - Representation of a major software and hardware company in a patent infringement lawsuit, in which a favorable settlement was secured. - Representation of a major software and engineering design services company in a lawsuit alleging fraud and other common law causes of action, in which our demurrer was sustained without leave to amend. Presently on appeal. - Representation of a major enterprise software company in patent infringement and trade secret lawsuits brought by a large competitor, in which a favorable settlement was secured. - Representation of the plaintiffs in Bostic v. Schaefer, the lawsuit which successfully challenged Virginia’s constitutional and statutory bans on same-sex marriage in both the Eastern District of Virginia and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and which proceeded to invalidate similar bans throughout the Fourth Circuit. - Representation of a major retailer against claims of employment discrimination on behalf of a large class of California employees, a suit in which the retailer successfully defeated class certification.- Representation of two Mexican LGBT asylum-seekers and their daughter, in which a full grant of asylum was secured and appeal rights were waived by the Department of Homeland Security. Additional representation of a Honduran LGBT-perceived asylum-seeker, in which a full grant of asylum was received.

Completed rotations in the HHS Emerging Leaders Program through the Indian Health Service. Completed rotations in: - Indian Health Service, Division of Human Resources- Immediate Office of the Secretary (HHS), Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of Tribal Affairs- Indian Health Service, Office of the Director, Public Affairs Staff- Indian Health Service, Office of Public Health Support- Indian Health Service, Office of Clinical and Preventive Services

Truman Fellowship in the Department's Office of Rural Health Policy, within the Health Resources and Services Administration. Worked primarily on health care financing issues, especially Medicare/Medicaid, for rural hospitals and other health care providers.