Though all cases vary and none is predictive, Heidi’s experience includes:

• In 2019, Heidi was lead trial counsel for a global wealth management firm in a confidential, binding arbitration of discrimination claims.  The arbitrator returned a decision in favor of Heidi’s client on all claims.
• In 2018, Heidi was lead trial counsel for a Fortune 100 company in a confidential, binding arbitration of products liability claims.  Two weeks after the arbitration, the arbitrator returned a decision for Heidi’s client on all claims.
• Also in 2018, Heidi was lead trial counsel for a life sciences company in an antitrust case set for an 8-week jury trial in the Northern District of California.  The case resolved four days before jury selection.
• In 2017, Heidi was lead trial counsel for the defense in state court in Wilmington, DE, in the trial-to-verdict of a commercial dispute involving claims in excess of $400 million.  After summary judgment for Heidi’s client on trade secrets claims, the jury returned a defense verdict on the contract claims, thereby resolving all claims in favor of her client.
• In 2015, Heidi was lead trial counsel in a 2-month bench trial in the Southern District of New York, defending against $1billion+ in fraud and civil RICO claims.  The case resolved after conclusion of the trial and while awaiting the court’s decision.
• In 2014, Heidi tried a pharmaceutical products liability jury trial (D. Mass.) that resulted in a defense verdict in favor of her client, marking the first time the client had prevailed on the adequacy of the warning for the injury at issue.
• In 2013, she tried a $500+ million commercial contract dispute involving a failed securitization, resulting in a defense judgment in favor of her client.
• Heidi also tried the first hormone therapy case to result in a defense verdict in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
• In the past decade, Heidi has tried cases in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Wilmington, St. Louis, Chicago, California, Utah, and Nevada.  And she has been lead counsel in trial-set cases in Colorado, Maryland, Florida, New Jersey, and West Virginia. Subject matters have included antitrust, products liability, intellectual property, professional liability, employment, and a variety of sophisticated commercial transactions.