Ms. Ost is a litigation attorney in Baker Donelson's Atlanta office who focuses on defending customer claims for breach of warranty in California and representing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the automotive industry. She leads a team of dedicated attorneys through every stage of breach-of-warranty defense, from preparing and reviewing discovery-related correspondence and motions, discovery responses, pleadings, and dispositive motions to conducting team training and strategic planning.
Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Ms. Ost practiced for nine years at an international law firm, where she represented commercial product manufacturers, truck rental companies, financial institutions, and health care companies in complex commercial tort actions, products liability suits, commercial contract disputes, and financial-institution litigation. During her time there, she also handled numerous pro bono matters, including serving as a pro bono attorney for petitioners in domestic violence cases on behalf of Cobb County Legal Aid, representing homeowners in property-rights disputes with Georgia Legal Services Program, and working on voting rights cases in Georgia and federal courts with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Lambda Legal.
Before joining that law firm, Ms. Ost served as a special assistant district attorney with the Cobb County District Attorney's Office. In that role, she successfully defended against motions to suppress at oral argument, conducted probable cause hearings and arraignments, presented bills of indictment to the grand jury, second-chaired a drug-trafficking trial, and routinely negotiated and presented plea agreements in felony cases.
During law school, Ms. Ost clerked for Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice James W. Smith, Jr. and for U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Clifton Knowles of the Middle District of Tennessee.
Ms. Ost is active in her community, previously serving on the board of directors of Everybody Wins Atlanta – a nonprofit devoted to improving children's literacy and developing reading skills in students at low-income elementary schools – and teaching Sunday school classes at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.