Amara N. Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Recruited from interim role (see below) to manage deliverables for ACC’s portfolio of strategic partnerships, from drafting memoranda of understanding to creating detailed timelines of project milestones, overseeing vendor and staff performance, and preparing after-action reports to document lessons learned. • Work directly with President of ACC Credentialing Institute to develop curriculum for ACC’s in-house counsel certification program, which launched in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in Spring 2018. • Drafted student handbook for certification program and draft, review, and/or revise other key legal documents, including website disclosures, vendor agreements, and sponsorship agreements. • Awarded ACC’s first Staff of the Month honor for leading the organization in membership recruitment.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Wilmington, Delaware

• Wrote post-trial opinions on a broad range of business bankruptcy topics, including employee claims for inadequate layoff notice, a creditor’s breach of fiduciary action against insiders of a non-debtor subsidiary, and statutory defenses to fraudulent transfer liability.• Assisted on evidentiary hearings in Energy Future Holdings mega case, learning methods of corporate valuation, the basics of financial forecasting and modeling, and how to interpret complex financial statements.• Supervised student externs, tailoring assignments to individual areas of interest and closely monitoring progress.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Assisted market conduct team with preparing for and responding to inquiries from state insurance commissioners.• Researched statutory and regulatory requirements, state by state, for prospective lines of business.• Represented a Liberty Mutual client in court through the company’s Domestic & Sexual Violence pro bono program, securing a permanent restraining order against the client’s abuser.

Greater Boston Area

• Managed every phase of the civil litigation process, from initial client interviews to conducting pretrial discovery, negotiating with opposing counsel, and appearing for oral argument.• Argued a Social Security disability appeal before an administrative law judge, securing fully favorable decision.• At the request of the clinic supervisor, returned in June 2013 to argue an Unemployment Insurance appeal.

Johannesburg, South Africa

• Interviewed and counseled clients from Zimbabwe, South Sudan, and Democratic Republic of Congo, providing French translation services as needed.• Assisted with attorney-inmate consultations and human rights monitoring at migrant detention centers.• Drafted official submissions to South Africa’s Refugee Appeal Board on behalf of asylum applicants.

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Politics

International Baccalaureate Diploma