Legal Experience:

Sixteen years complex commercial litigation with emphasis on first amendment (libel, public access and related media issues), contract, employment, intellectual property / trade secrets, and other commercial litigation matters. Significant trial and appellate practice, including practice before the Ohio and United States Supreme Courts

Webster & Dubyak, 2006 - Present
Webster & Webster, LLP, 1998 - 2006
Baker & Hostetler, 1990 – 1997

Other Professional Experience:

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1986 - 1987
Writer, Public Affairs Division
Helped launch and wrote weekly employee newsletter; wrote
magazine articles, press releases and radio scripts.

Education:

Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio

J.D., 1990
Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, Academic Scholarship, Notes Editor, CWRU Law Review

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
    B.A. (History), 1985
    Dean's List

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Junior Year Study Abroad Program, 1983 - 1984
Awarded Margaret Keith Bellflower Award for Second-place Standing In Honors History Program

Publications:

Note, Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors: A Question of Life or Death, 40:3 C.W.R.U. L. Rev. (1989 – 90).

Bar Admissions:

Ohio, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio,
United States Supreme Court.

Community Activities:

Secretary, Brandon Family Foundation, 1999-present
Trustee, Hitchcock Center For Women, 1995 – 2000
Trustee, Legal Aid Society, 1992 – 1998
Trustee, United Way Services Junior Board, 1992 - 1994
Trustee, Cleveland Opera Junior Board, 1991 – 1992
Loaned Executive, United Way Services, 1990
Volunteer, Project: Learn, 1986 - 1987