Honors & Awards

Selected, Southwest Super Lawyers 2012-2013
Selected, Arizona's Finest Lawyers 2011-2013
Top 25 Women Attorneys in Arizona, Southwest Super Lawyers, Phoenix Magazine, May 2013

Representative Engagements

• Wrongful death and significant injury cases stemming from automobile and motorcycle accidents, construction site injuries, assaults and facility design defects
• Defense of trucking litigation matters with allegations of conspicuity and logbook violations, FMCSR required maintenance, and driving technique
• Products liability matters including vehicular safety system and tire failures, safety cage and seat belt failures, propane explosions, motorized wheelchair incline and balance failures
• Dram shop litigation; hospitality industry litgation including sexual assaults on hotel premises
• Construction site and workplace injuries, including related indemnification, OSHA and workers compensation issues
• Complex injury matters including severe traumatic brain injuries, paralysis, and premature birth allegedly caused by automobile accidents

Professional Affiliations

Community Involvement

• Volunteer Teacher, Legal Procedure and Moot Court Programs, charter schools for high risk teens 1999-2006
• Volunteer Teacher, Legal Procedure and Moot Court programs, South Mountain High School, 1993-1995
• Volunteer, ABC No Kill Animal Shelter 1993 to 2000
• HERO Program Mentor, 1993-1997
• Pro Bono Attorney, Vol-Law Program Arizona State Bar Association 1986-1987

Presentations and Publications

• State Bar of Arizona, Seminar Chair and Lecturer, "How to Handle a Personal Injury Case Under $50,000"
• Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, Lecturer, "Supplemental Benefits Under Arizona’s Worker’s Compensation Law"
• Developer and presenter: Numerous day-long and half-day long presentation to claims and associated staff legal office personnel throughout assigned region regarding legal developments, rules of procedure, law office claims processing procedures and litigation management
• Developer and presenter: Numerous in-house insurance training presentations, ranging from beginning to complex, designed to develop investigation and evaluation skills of claims partners and their managers
• Author, The “Alternative” Practice: ADR as a Means, Not Just an End.  Trial Practice: Vol. 5 #2 , Summer, 1994