Our Story

In 2018, in Rome, I met Abraham Lincoln, 1862. 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.

An unusual road to the law — on purpose.

I didn’t take the straight path, and it turned out to be the advantage. Before and alongside the law, I spent more than fifteen years leading technology and operations programs inside some of the world’s largest companies — from an iconic American consumer brand to global Big Tech — shipping AI products, running delivery organizations, translating between engineers, executives, and lawyers. I hold a law degree from Loyola University Chicago, an MBA, and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

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? Because this firm runs on it. The instant tools on this site, the research that assembles evidence, the drafting systems that make honest flat fees possible — I built them, I understand exactly what they can and cannot do, and a licensed attorney reads every word before anything goes out in your name. Software gathers. A lawyer judges. Here, unusually, the same person is fluent in both.

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