MONA focuses her practice on business transactions, including commercial business and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate and business restructuring and insolvency.

She earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 2011 and a B.A. in English from Shijiazhuang University of Economics in China in 2004. At Cleveland-Marshall, she was the Research Editor of the Cleveland State Law Review, won awards in a Moot Court competition and was the winner of the Suggs I. Garber Award for Highest Academic GPA in Business Organizations and Taxation and the CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Antitrust, Taxation I, Mergers & Acquisitions, Estates & Trusts, Employment Law, Legal Profession, and Torts. She also won a Pro Bono and Community Service Award.

While in law school, Mona held concurrent externships with Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O’Connor and Judge Randolph Baxter of the United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and proficient in English-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-English translation.

Mona joined Calfee in 2011.