Practice Areas: ● Insurance Defense - First Party Property ● Commercial Litigation● Corporate/Business Law● Employment Law - Employer Defense Litigation● Employment Law - Management & General Counsel

Attorney with the Employee Rights Litigation Group. Handle large caseload of employment cases including FLSA wage and hour, discrimination, FMLA, and class action matters. Handle all aspects of case management including intensive pre-suit settlement, federal and state court litigation, EEOC procedure, arbitration, etc.

Civil litigator with trial experience. Practice focus in consumer finance, foreclosure, loan servicing and bankruptcy law; handle all aspects of litigation from attending hearings, conducting/defending depositions, drafting of complaints, discovery, pleadings and motion practice, to trial.Experienced in quiet title, condominium/homeowners’ association litigation, condo termination actions, tax deed sales, FCCPA, eminent domain litigation, fraud, etc. Attend bankruptcy hearings on behalf of creditors including, inter alia, contested hearings, confirmation hearings, etc.Communicate and correspond with large corporate clients on a daily basis; attend mediation and negotiate high dollar settlements.Lead attorney within firm for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations and Eminent Domain defense.

● Negotiated and settled cases with banks and servicers on a daily basis; prepared/participated in hundreds of mediations; reviewed title issues and drafted deeds. Ongoing training and research of various consumer finance regulations.● Lead attorney of record for unemployment compensation appeals and Federal unpaid wage and hour cases (FLSA). Assisted with the firm’s Human Resources Department with day-to-day employment issues, unemployment compensation disputes, discrimination claims, etc. Assisted senior attorneys with EEOC mediations.

● Provided legal writing and research in both administrative and international criminal law.● Drafted legal correspondences to embassies and other Tribunal organs.● Drafted the payment policies and United Nations Detention Unit portions of a Best Practices document for the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Institute; interacted with convicted and accused war criminals.