Team R4V is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organized to empower wounded veterans through sport.• Develop and implement strategic plan, organization and committee budgets, fundraising and marketing strategies, and grant processes and guidelines.• Develop and manage relationships with other non-profit organizations, national level athletic events, corporate sponsors, major donors, grant applicants, and vendors.• Stay current on federal and state laws to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, advise Board of Directors of changes impacting Team R4V, and engage outside counsel as necessary.• Review, negotiate, execute, and implement contracts with national level athletic events, vendors and independent contractors.• Manage and direct various consultants.

Avant is an energy management company that provides energy consulting, project development and utility management services.• Advised Avant regarding energy, environmental, employment, securities and corporate law.• Drafted and reviewed contracts, briefs and pleadings, correspondence, environmental permit applications, responses to requests for proposals.• Advised Avant regarding federal and state regulatory and legislative matters impacting Avant and its clients.• Appeared before federal and state regulatory agencies and regional transmission organizations.

• Represented non-profit natural gas and electric clients in all aspects of proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission including drafting complaints, protests, settlement negotiations, discovery, requests for summary disposition, motions to compel, briefs, settlement agreements, and requests for rehearing.• Represented consumers’ counsel in state electric utility rate case, investigations into distribution system reliability, and rulemaking proceedings and represented intervenors in electric utility rate cases before state public service commissions.• Drafted legal briefs on appeal to District of Columbia Court of Appeals and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; researched and developed legal arguments and strategy; second chaired oral arguments.• Advised non-profit electric generation and transmission cooperatives receiving smart grid investment grant funding regarding compliance with financial assistance agreement and federal reporting requirements.Miller Balis & O'Neil is now McCarter & English.

• Represented natural gas companies, electric utilities, and state boroughs before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and Alaska state courts including drafting initial tariffs, applications for certificates of public convenience and necessity, applications for exemptions from regulation, and petitions for temporary operating authority; and intervening and participating in hearings on behalf of wholesale customers in tariff revision and depreciation cases.• Participated in all aspects of civil litigation in matters including antitrust, trademark infringement, wrongful death, employment discrimination, partnership dissolution and accounting and breach of contract actions. Hartig, Rhodes, Hoge & Lekisch is now Hartig Rhodes LLC.

• Drafted written opinions and prepared legal research memoranda covering civil and criminal matters as well as matters on appeal from administrative agencies and the district courts.