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Erica Gann Kitaev

Ms. Kitaev’s practice focuses on the defense of complex commercial disputes, including class actions and employment law cases. Ms. Kitaev has successfully represented businesses at both the trial and appellate levels in jurisdictions throughout the country. She has worked with a broad range of clients, from small businesses to FORTUNE 500 companies, and briefly served as in-house counsel to a start-up company in the biotechnology industry. As a result, Ms. Kitaev is particularly concerned with assuring that clients’ business objectives are fully integrated into litigation strategy, and she has extensive experience in negotiating favorable settlements for her clients.

Ms. Kitaev’s representative experience includes:

• Participating in obtaining summary judgment in nationally reported case regarding data security breach
• Obtaining highly favorable transfer of venue of data security case
• Managing the litigation stage of collection efforts for more than 60 cases for division of a major national bank
• Member of a firmwide team investigating issues related to the Ponzi scheme instituted by Bernard L. Madoff
• Drafting successful brief in the Ohio Court of Appeals dealing with an important issue of trust law
• Assisting in the management of the collection, review and production of electronically stored documents in large class action dispute.

While in law school, Ms. Kitaev served as a judicial extern for The Honorable S. Arthur Spiegel in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Prior to entering the legal profession, Ms. Kitaev was a professor of music.