Overview
Trade-Secret Litigation and Counseling
Whether it be customized software or critical business learnings, clients across industries have valuable trade secrets and are vulnerable to trade-secret misappropriation. Sometimes employees leave and improperly take trade secrets with them to a competitor. Other times, a business deal has gone bad and trade secrets are wrongfully exposed. For both plaintiffs and defendants, Harmony has experience litigating trade-secret disputes across these and other scenarios. Clients trust her to lead them through rapid-paced, intense, high-stakes injunction litigation. In addition to litigation, Harmony advises clients on their trade-secret protection policies and clean-room procedures.
Non-compete and Restrictive Covenant Litigation and Counseling
Harmony regularly represents employers in restrictive covenant disputes, including disputes over the enforceability and scope of non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. She has experience on both sides — seeking to enforce restrictive covenants and defending against claims that a covenant was violated. Harmony also represents clients in pre-suit investigations, and making and responding to pre-suit demands. In addition to litigation, Harmony counsels employers on their restrictive covenants and non-disclosure agreements to help them protect some of their most critical assets — talented employees, important intellectual property and key customer relationships.
Finance Litigation
She litigates disputes between debtors and creditors and represents members of the financial services industry. Her litigation experience includes complex banking disputes, guaranty claims, fraudulent transfer claims, fraud claims, breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims and breach-of-contract claims. Harmony also has extensive experience litigating within bankruptcy proceedings — especially adversary proceedings and contested matters — where she represents financial institutions, creditors, creditor committees, trustees and corporate debtors.
Pro Bono
Harmony maintains an active pro bono practice. In recent years she co-led a team of lawyers representing voters in a high-profile voting rights case, where she successfully first-chaired the summary judgment hearing, fending off the dispositive motion before a three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The team went on to victory at the trial level, invalidating more than 30 state and federal legislative districts as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
Services & Industries
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Indiana
Court Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Clerkships
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Hon. John D. Tinder, 2007-2008
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Hon. John D. Tinder, 2007-2008
Education
University of Iowa College of Law
J.D. with highest distinction, Order of the Coif, Iowa Law Review (managing editor) (2007)
Indiana University, Bloomington
B.S. in Biology, with highest distinction, Phi Beta Kappa (2004)
Insights & Events
Latest
Insights
Other Perspectives
- Seventh Circuit Civil Appeals: Appellant’s Brief and Appendix
Co-author with Jane Dall Wilson, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, March 2015 - Responding to Discovery Subpoenas: Indiana
Co-author with Angela Hall, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, January 14, 2015 - Litigation Overview: Indiana
Co-author with April Sellers, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, December 10, 2014 - Drafting and Issuing Discovery Subpoenas: Indiana
Co-author with Angela Hall, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, December 7, 2014 - Appellate Civil Case Law Update
Co-author with D. Lucetta Pope, Res Gestae, December 2010 - National Parks: For Use and "Enjoyment" or for "Preservation"? and the Role of the National Park Service Management Policies in That Determination
92 Iowa Law Rev. 166, 2007
Leadership & Community
Professional Associations
- Indianapolis Bar Association
- Seventh Circuit Bar Association
- Indianapolis American Inn of Court — Barrister
Civic Activities
- The Indianapolis Cultural Trail — Board Member, 2016-present
- Faegre Baker Daniels United Way Campaign — Co-Chair, 2014 and 2015
- Indianapolis 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee — Environmental Programs Subcommittee
- Indy Reads — Literacy Advocates Committee and Volunteer, 2009-11
- Indiana High School Mock Trial — Volunteer Judge, 2009 and 2010
- Indiana Voter Protection — Legal Volunteer, 2008
Honors
- Faegre Baker Daniels — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2014-16, 2018-19
- Indiana Super Lawyers — Rising Star, Business Litigation, 2015-17
- Indianapolis Bar Association — Bar Leader Series, 2014-15
- University of Iowa College of Law — Outstanding Scholastic Achievement (awarded by faculty); and Boyd Service Award, Highest Honors (for completing service hours)