Susanna is a member of the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Litigation
Group, focusing on drug and device litigation and appellate matters. She has served as a
motions coordinator and legal strategy counsel in some of the largest MDLs in history. She has
successfully defended drug and medical device companies in appeals in the Second, Third,
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal. Susanna also
serves as embedded appellate counsel at trial.

Susanna is a regular contributor to the award-winning Drug & Device Law Blog. She has
also been recognized by The Legal 500 (recognized in the editorial for nationwide Product
Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices – Defense, 2023),
Law360 (Rising Star – Life Sciences, 2022) and Best Lawyers in America® (Ones to Watch,
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2021-2025). She taught as an adjunct professor at the
Mississippi College School of Law from 2009 to 2010.

Susanna earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale University and her J.D. from the University of
Mississippi. She clerked for Judge Southwick of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
She is admitted to the State Bars of Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and New York.

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