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Maureen is a trial lawyer who concentrates her practice on the diverse litigation needs of businesses and individuals.  Maureen’s practice includes national product liability counseling and litigation in a variety of industry sectors, ranging from consumer products to construction and agricultural equipment manufacturers; prosecution and defense of contract disputes, business torts and unfair competition claims; estate litigation; and personal injury and premises liability litigation.

Maureen’s Relevant Experience

  • Represented Fortune 500 Company as first chair in arbitration in $30 million CERCLA remediation action.
  • Secured a defense verdict for an international manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment in a product liability fire case in South Dakota federal court.
  • Help lead a regional team as national fire counsel for a manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment, appearing in state and federal courts across the country.
  • Represent manufacturer of durable medical equipment as lead product liability counsel throughout the State of Ohio.
  • Serve on a team as national coordinating counsel for a concession equipment and accessories manufacturer in diacetyl litigation.
  • Served on a team as international product liability counsel for a consumer goods manufacturer.
  • Obtained dismissal of a Fortune 100 company in a wrongful death action for failure to assert valid intentional tort claims as required under Ohio’s workers’ compensation statutes.
  • Successfully represented members of a family-owned business in breach of fiduciary duty litigation.
  • Secured a preliminary injunction in favor of IT company for a former employees’ breach of a non-competition agreement.
  • Obtained voluntary dismissal of a trust dispute in the middle of a bench trial.

Other Info About Maureen

Education

Law School

University of Cincinnati College of Law, J.D., 2009, magna cum laude

University of Cincinnati Law Review Notes and Comments, Chair, 2008-2009 Associate Member, 2007-2008
Student Bar Association Class Representative Community Service Committee, Chair
Corporate Law Fellow
Negotiations, Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate School

Capital University, B.A., 2006, magna cum laude

Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society
Chi Sigma Alpha, National Athletic Honor Society

Clerkships

Maureen served as a clerk for the court(s) and judge(s) below:

Judicial Externship, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Chief Judge Sandra Beckwith, Aug.-Dec. 2008

Bar Memberships

Maureen is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

Ohio, 2009

Kentucky, 2012

Courts

Maureen is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 2010

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, 2012

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, 2012

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2012

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

Cincinnati Business Courier’s Forty Under 40, 2017

C-Change, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Class 9

Leadership Cincinnati, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Class 45

Selected for inclusion in Ohio Rising Stars® 2014-2024

YWCA Rising Star, 2010

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Ohio State Bar Association, 2009

Cincinnati Bar Association, 2009

Cincinnati Women’s Executive Forum, Executive Member

Kentucky Bar Association, 2012

Federal Bar Association

Defense Research Institute

Product Liability Committee, Steering Committee Member, 2014-present
Young Lawyers Committee, Steering Committee Member, 2012 – 2015

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

ArtsWave, Women’s Leadership Roundtable and Campaign Cabinet Committee Member

Cincinnati Business Courier, Women’s Mentoring Monday Mentor, 2021-2022

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Board Member, 2015-present

Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Board Member, 2021-present

Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Vox Futura Board Member, 2019-2020

May We Help, Board of Directors, 2017-present

ProBono Partnership of Ohio, Board Member, 2022-present

United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Board Member, 2023-present

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