Changing Trial Counsel Before Trial: How to Take Over a Case Without Losing It

She received her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law in 2015, where she won the John T. Gaubatz Moot Court Competition (2013), competed in the Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition (2014), and served on the Charles C. Papy, Jr. Moot Court Board and its Executive Board as Gaubatz Vice-President. She also served as a Student Bar Association Senator and chaired its Social Planning and Events Committee. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas (2012), with minors in Asian studies and Business Foundations. She is admitted in Ohio and before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the District of Colorado.

The American Lawyer's Litigation Daily recognized her, together with Benesch partners Nicholas Secco and Abbey Walsh, in its Litigator of the Week coverage following the 2025 Professional Bull Riders bankruptcy trial. The Best Lawyers® has listed her as One to Watch in Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants (2023–2026). She co-chairs Benesch's Hiring Committee, and since she assumed that role the firm's Summer Program has been recognized by The American Lawyer as a Top 40 Summer Associate Program.

She is heavily involved in associate development at Benesch, taking a lead role in recruiting, mentoring, and integrating summer associates into the firm.

In a seven-figure federal products liability action for an off-road vehicle manufacturer (2019), Benesch successfully argued more than ten motions in limine in Arizona federal court ahead of an eve-of-trial settlement. In a seven-figure breach of contract, warranty, and leasing dispute for a car wash equipment manufacturer (2024), Benesch prevailed on evidentiary and expert issues at a pretrial conference and settled just before trial. As trial counsel for the plaintiff hospital system in a 2018 Ohio state court jury trial, Benesch direct-examined a key damages witness and then prepared and argued a motion for a new trial, which the court granted, leading to a significant settlement.

Her trial work includes bench trials in bankruptcy and chancery courts. Benesch served as trial counsel for the Professional Bull Riders in a 2025 bankruptcy court bench trial against Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's Merit Street Media, cross-examining its Chief Operating Officer and drawing testimony the court incorporated into its order converting the case to Chapter 7. In a 2024 Delaware Chancery bench trial over a hostile leadership takeover, Benesch represented a railroad company's Chief Executive Officer and cross-examined the company's Chief Financial Officer. Her broader practice covers breach of contract, products liability, real estate, corporate, and trade secrets disputes, including obtaining dismissal of several causes of action in a nine-figure pharmaceutical multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court and conducting depositions in a ten-figure defamation action.