Experience

Deidre is a Partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office.  She practices in the areas of medical and professional malpractice defense.  She has defended medical malpractice litigation matters in the state and federal courts throughout Maryland, the District of Columbia, and New York.  She previously worked at an insurance defense firm both in New York City and the District of Columbia representing individual and corporate healthcare providers in medical malpractice and professional malpractice cases.  Deidre successfully litigated numerous medical malpractice cases as second chair in both state and federal courts in Maryland and the District of Columbia.  She obtained the dismissals of several cases through dispositive motions and negotiated voluntary dismissals.    

After law school, Deidre began her career as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Department, Brooklyn Tort Division, where she became a pre-trial Part Leader supervising the attorneys in a pre-trial Part in New York Supreme Court. Deidre represented the various New York City agencies in civil tort lawsuits and litigated cases in New York Supreme and Civil Courts.