- Meet Amina
- Practice Areas
- Education & Clerkships
- Presentations & Awards
- Professional Memberships
Amina focuses her practice on complex civil litigation and class action matters. Amina is currently leading the firm’s class action litigation against insurance companies on behalf of policyholders in a variety of areas including COVID-19 business interruption coverage and policyholder benefits and rights. She is also part of the firm’s data breach litigation team.
Prior to joining Cohen & Malad, LLP, Amina had the honor of serving as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Judge Melissa S. May at the Indiana Court of Appeals and to the Honorable Judge Heather A. Welch at the Indiana Commercial Court. Amina’s clerkship experience has given her command of courtroom procedure and commercial litigation.
In law school, Amina worked as a law clerk in the Consumer Protection Division of the Indiana Attorney General’s Office. Amina also completed an externship at IU Health Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
J.D., INDIANA UNIVERSITY ROBERT H. MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW, 2016
- Pre-Law Program, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford
B.A., INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, 2011
Clerkships
- Law clerk, Hon. Heather A. Welch, Indiana Commercial Court, Marion Superior Court 1
- Law clerk, Hon. Melissa S. May, Indiana Court of Appeals
“Standards of Review,” How Appealing! Sagamore Inn of Court Lincoln Group Presentation, March 2020
“Dystopian Dining: Update on COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Litigation,” ITLA 56th Annual Institute, November 2020
“Effective Mentorship in 2021,” Panel Moderator, Indianapolis Bar Association Women and the Law Division Mentorship Kickoff Luncheon, February 2021
“Working with Victims of Abuse: Brain Injury & Trauma”, Presenter, National Crime Victim Bar Association, October 2021
Indiana Super Lawyers Rising Star, Thomson Reuters, 2021-2022
- Friends of Riley
- Vice President of External Affairs, 2019-2021
- Sagamore American Inn of Court
- Associate 2019 – 2022
- Indianapolis Bar Association
- Women and the Law Division
- Board Member, Executive Committee
- Chair, Mentorship Committee
- Women and the Law Division
- Indiana Trial Lawyers Association
- Member, Women’s Caucus
- Member, Young Lawyers Section
- National Crime Victims Bar Association – Young Lawyers Council
- Board Member 2021 – 2023
- Center for At-Risk Elders
- Volunteer Advocate, 2021
JURISDICTIONS ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
- Indiana, 2017
- Northern District of Indiana, 2019
- Southern District of Indiana, 2019
