Terri has devoted her entire twenty years of practice to the representation of plaintiffs in civil litigation. She has experience in litigating wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, lead poisoning, employment, intellectual property, ERISA, anti-trust, commercial, and consumer disputes.

Terri has earned the highest Peer Review Rating of AV for professional excellence from Martindale-Hubbell in recognition of her high level of legal skills, ethical standards and integrity.

Terri was part of the litigation team that has successfully represented Procter & Gamble in its complex derivatives securities litigation against Bankers Trust resulting in a $165 million recovery, and she represented Procter & Gamble in its complex multi-district litigation against the Amway Corporation. She also represented an inventor against Champion Paper for trade secret appropriation resulting in a multi-million dollar settlement, a worker at the Cincinnati Zoo for intentional tort from a polar bear attack resulting in a $3.5 million verdict, nine victims who were killed and seriously injured in an elevator crash in Cincinnati resulting in a multi-million dollar settlement, a family against their school district and school bus manufacturer for the death of their young daughter, a family against hotel owners and operators for the death of their adult daughter in an electrocution on its premises, and various other individuals and families in multiple cases resulting in substantial verdicts and settlements. Terri was counsel on Nunez v. J.L. Sims Company, a lead paint products liability action, and is presently serving as lead and/or co-counsel in numerous multi-million dollar complex civil litigation cases.

Terri was a law clerk for the Honorable Herman J. Weber in the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio from 1985-1989, after which she practiced in the civil litigation firm of Waite, Schneider, Bayless and Chesley from 1989-1999. She is a Life Member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, was a First District Representative on the Ohio State Bar Association's Council of Delegates, was a Master of the Bench in the Potter Stewart Inn of Court, and was a Fellow in the inaugural class of The Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers. She was a judicially appointed member of three Committees on Magistrates for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for the selection and re-appointment of its Magistrate Judges, and served on the Cincinnati Bar Association Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law. Terri also has extensive teaching and speaking experience in the areas of complex civil litigation and has taught pretrial, trial, and appellate advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and business law and ethics at the undergraduate and masters level at Xavier University.

Terri earned her Bachelor of Arts from Miami University in 1982, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1985 where she was Director of the Moot Court Program, a Member of the Order of Barristers, and the recipient of the John Weld Peck Trial Advocacy Award. She has practiced in all levels of Ohio trial and appellate courts, and is admitted to practice in the State of Ohio, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and the United States Court of Claims.