What 3 skills do you consider the most important to be successful in your industry?

1. Communication, being detail oriented, and interpersonal skills. It is important to be transparent with your clients and communicate every hurdle and success that comes your way.

2. Being detail oriented wins cases.

3. Be courteous to everyone involved in the case. I truly believe you catch more flies with honey.

What is one lesson that you had to learn the hard way?

A lesson I learned the hard way is to speak up. As young associates, it is easy to acquiesce to more “senior” opinions. What differs a good attorney from a great one is to have the confidence to express those opinions that go against the grain.

What do you enjoy doing when you are not working?

I spend a lot of my free time coaching law school students for trial advocacy competitions. As early as high school, I had trial coaches who taught me how to analyze cases, advocate to a jury, and understand evidentiary arguments. I hope to pass that knowledge on to future litigators.