The Story
In 2018, in Rome, I met Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I was a law student studying abroad, and she was — well, she was Justice Ginsburg. I have carried her words with me ever since, and they remain this firm’s north star:
What she taught, in one sentence, is the whole philosophy of this practice: you don’t need special treatment. You need the weight removed — the fine print translated, the procedure followed, the pressure met with someone who cannot be hurried or intimidated. Most of my clients don’t come to me wanting to win a war. They come wanting to be heard, and to know honestly where they stand. That, I can promise.
The long way to Plan A.
People assume I came to the law late, as a second act. Not quite — law was always Plan A. The 2008 recession had other ideas, so Plan A waited while I went to work: quality management, purchasing, analytics, program management — across government, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, aviation, manufacturing, and Big Tech. I collected a PMP and a Six Sigma Green Belt along the way, and started a few businesses of my own — vacation rentals, a flower shop, an HVAC company — so when a small-business owner sits across from me, I’m not imagining their problems. I’ve made their payroll.
Then, still working full-time, I finally went back for the degree I’d promised myself: a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago — with an MBA and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Tech alongside it. I had a baby my 3L year and graduated in 2020, straight into the pandemic. So when a client tells me their deadline doesn’t care about their circumstances, I believe them completely.
And the life experience runs wider than the résumé. The recession taught me early what a layoff feels like — I know exactly what that phone call does to a Tuesday. I’ve been through a divorce and argued over a Dyson vacuum, which teaches you more about family law than any casebook. I’m a mom, and a stepmom who watched a good single dad do the hard version of parenting alone. All of it walks into the room with me when your case does. The bar license is the credential; the life is the practice.
And one more thing that surprises people: I’m also a licensed real estate agent and a former loan officer, with more than five hundred residential closings behind me. When your matter touches a deed, a mortgage, or a closing table, I’ve quite literally sat in every seat at that table.
Why does the technology background matter to you? Not because this firm runs on AI. It doesn’t. I built the instant tools on this site myself, and their whole job is to give you a quick first look at a document before you ever pick up the phone. Your actual legal work is mine alone: the research, the strategy, every letter and every filing, written by me and signed by me. What the tech background buys you is a lawyer who knows exactly what software can be trusted to do, and where it has to stop.
Vexatiously polite.
It’s the phrase I use for how this firm fights: devastatingly courteous, thoroughly prepared, and entirely unhurried by anyone’s intimidation tactics. No bluster — bluster is what people use when they haven’t done the reading. I do the reading. Then I write the letter your opponent’s lawyer has to take seriously, in a tone their client can’t complain about.
And the promise underneath everything, the one on the Promises page in writing: I will tell you honestly where you stand — including when the honest answer is that your money is better kept in your pocket. A lawyer who will talk you out of hiring her is a lawyer you can believe when she says your case is strong.
“I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.”
Abraham Lincoln, 1862