With more than 45 years of legal experience, this legal malpractice expert specializes in attorney standards of care, legal ethics, professional responsibility, attorney discipline, and risk management. Since 1998, her practice has been devoted exclusively to serving as a full-time neutral arbitrator, legal malpractice expert witness, legal ethics consultant, and attorney discipline consultant. Her work focuses on evaluating attorney conduct, professional negligence claims, fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest, trust accounting issues, attorney-client communications, and compliance with the California Rules of Professional Conduct and the State Bar Act.

Her professional background combines litigation, regulatory, judicial, and alternative dispute resolution experience. She previously served with the Office of Chief Trial Counsel of the State Bar of California, where she investigated and prosecuted attorney disciplinary matters involving ethical violations, competence, diligence, fiduciary obligations, conflicts of interest, and trust accounting issues. Earlier in her career, she served as a Senior Deputy City Attorney, representing a municipality in civil litigation, administrative proceedings, and advisory matters, and as a Deputy District Attorney handling misdemeanor and felony prosecutions. She also maintained a private law practice focused on civil matters, fee arbitrations, estate planning, special needs trusts, and disability-related proceedings, and served as a Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles Superior Court.

She earned a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Arts in English and has been admitted to the State Bar of California and the United States Federal Court. In addition to her legal practice, she served for more than 15 years as a California State Bar Ethics School Instructor, educating attorneys on legal ethics, professional responsibility, and trust accounting requirements. Her extensive arbitration practice has involved hundreds of complex disputes, including professional negligence, medical malpractice, business, contract, employment, insurance, and other civil matters, providing substantial experience in evaluating legal and factual issues across a wide range of disputes.

Her expert witness practice includes reviewing attorney conduct in litigation, transactional, probate, estate planning, business, and professional representation matters. She provides written and oral opinions regarding attorney standards of care, legal malpractice, ethical compliance, fiduciary obligations, attorney-client relationships, fee disputes, trust accounting practices, and disciplinary issues. Her evaluations routinely involve analysis of pleadings, discovery materials, depositions, attorney files, billing records, engagement agreements, court filings, and other legal records to assess compliance with professional standards and ethical obligations.