Holly is a litigator in the firm’s General Liability Litigation Practice Group. She defends companies in fast-paced and complex mass tort litigation, including product liability litigation. Holly represents clients in all phases of the trial process, from legal research to conducting fact and expert discovery, drafting dispositive and non-dispositive motions, drafting substantive deposition outlines, and delivering oral arguments in court.
Holly graduated magna cum laude from the American University Washington College of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as an executive editor of the Administrative Law Review. After law school she clerked for the Honorable K. Michael Moore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where she managed the day-to-day progression of more than 150 civil and criminal cases involving a wide array of complex legal issues.
Before and while attending law school, Holly had a successful career with the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. She was the branch chief of Advisory Services for the Court Human Resources Division, where she advised federal judges and court executives on complex workforce management and employee relations matters. She then was promoted to division chief of the Division, where she directed government employees and contractors in three branches, administering a comprehensive excepted service human resources program for more than 30,000 employees of the Federal Judiciary.
Presentations and Publications
An Ethics Conundrum: The Lawyer-Witness, Environmental & Energy, Mass Torts, and Products Liability Litigation Committees’ Joint Regional CLE Program, ABA Litigation Section, February 2024.
Legal Ethics in a Remote Work Environment, Environmental & Energy, Mass Torts, and Products Liability Litigation Committees’ Joint Regional CLE Program, ABA Litigation Section, February 2023.
Comment, One for the Price of Two: The Hidden Costs of Regulatory Reform Under Executive Order 13,771, Administrative Law Review, 2018.