Debra recently obtained a significant victory for a regional hospital as the lead trial counsel in a lease dispute involving intricate questions of hospital licensing. After successfully expunging a lis pendens that threatened the sale of the hospital, she proceeded to secure a complete defense judgment for the hospital, and her client was awarded attorneys fees and costs in a seven-figure amount. Debra also represents health care entities in peer review-related hearings and litigation.

She was also instrumental in obtaining a favorable settlement in a highly publicized and contentious dispute between family members owning the 11th largest winery in the nation. Brought into the case only eight weeks before trial, she quickly mastered the case, argued several key dispositive motions and handled the execution of the complex settlement involving over 20 trust and other settlement documents.

In other matters, Debra represents landowners in various states in connection with Fifth Amendment takings claims arising out of the federal government’s conversion of property under the federal National Trails System Act. These cases are litigated and tried in the federal Court of Claims.

Debra is the past chair of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She also served on the board of governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.