Leah A. Tedford

Leah Tedford is a partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department and serves as chair of the firm's Appellate Practice. Leah focuses her practice on commercial litigation, including consumer protection, data breach, contract, and corporate malfeasance cases, including in the class action context. Drawing on her expertise cultivated during two federal clerkships, Leah regularly drafts dispositive motions, motions to compel, and Daubert and other discovery motions. She has additional experience directing discovery and e-discovery efforts and responding to subpoenas.

Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken, Leah was an associate at a national law firm. Before entering private practice, she clerked for the Honorable G. Steven Agee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Honorable Henry Coke Morgan, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Leah earned her Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law, where she served as the Executive Editor of the Regent University Law Review and was recognized as the 2015 Outstanding Graduate. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government from Geneva College.