Karin Carter Email & Phone Number

Pleasanton, Ca

• Negotiate, draft and advise on transactions and contracts, including their risks; devise creative and practical legal solutions to meet State Fund's business needs. • Manage the transactions, and advice matters, primarily for Enterprise Procurement (Technology Category and Corporate & Professional Services Category), and also on privacy and intellectual property issues. • Perform assigned legal analyses, research and summarize laws and cases to advise on compliance matters tailored to State Fund’s unique status as a public enterprise fund; review and interpret proposed, new, and existing legislation to minimize and manage risk to State Fund. • Effectively communicate with and provide status reports to clients and State Fund's Board of Directors, Executives, Officers, Program Managers and business units, as appropriate.

Virtual

Designing and drafting law school transactional skills competition problem centered on intellectual property law, including fact pattern, interview scripts, summary of legal issues, and judge intro video.Reconceptualizing aspects of LawMeets' online presence with exclusive content for LawMeets participant-members to enhance user experience and build membership base.Part-time position.

San Francisco Bay Area

Various assignments for corporate transactional work, with emphasis on securities filings.

Santa Clara, Ca

• Moot Court Advisor: design and management of external moot court program as an experiential training ground for law practice, with emphasis on teaching law students practical legal skills. - Program annually fielded 20-25 teams encompassing a variety of legal topics and skills areas (IP, international, environmental, constitutional law and others; appellate moots, arbitration, negotiation, drafting), enabling 60-70 law students to compete externally each year, arranging for every team to have a faculty or practitioner coach and a law student team manager. - Improved team performance by 50% imposing law practice standards and deadlines. - Promoted the program to on- and off-campus constituencies. - Managed annual program budget of approximately $100,000.• Host Administrator: for regional competitions hosted at Santa Clara Law, including ABA Negotiation & Client Counseling Competitions; IP LawMeets Transactional/Deal-Making Competition; and Stetson International Environmental Law Competition. Recruited attorney judges and law student volunteers; supervised all logistical aspects of events.• Legal Writing Professor: taught first-year, second-year, and advanced legal writing classes: introduced students to legal analysis, research, and expression by using practice-oriented approach to writing projects; provided extensive individual feedback on student writing & oral advocacy, and guidance in entering the career of law practice.• Program Director, Santa Clara Summer Program in Hong Kong: arranged for law courses taught by local faculty at University of Hong Kong, conducted ABA-compliant site visits; negotiated law student internship placements with a variety of legal offices; monitored student intern performance in each setting.

Newport Beach, California Via Telecommuting

Securities transactional and corporate governance practice:• Prepared SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) reporting and compliance documents under '33 Act and '34 Act, including proxy statements, registration statements, Section 16 filings.• Prepared blue sky notices, private offering memoranda, Over the Counter Bulletin Board market listing applications, debt and equity instruments. • Significant client contact and counseling, entity formation in multiple jurisdictions, and corporate minute book maintenance.• Served as second chair for mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and similar transactions.Part-time position.

Newport Beach, California Via Telecommuting

Securities transactional and corporate governance practice:• Prepared SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) reporting and compliance documents under '33 Act and '34 Act, including proxy statements, registration statements, Section 16 filings.• Prepared blue sky notices, private offering memoranda, Over the Counter Bulletin Board market listing applications, debt and equity instruments. • Significant client contact and counseling, entity formation in multiple jurisdictions, and corporate minute book maintenance.• Served as second chair for mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and similar transactions.Part-time position.

Newport Beach, Ca

• Securities transactional and corporate governance practice: prepared and submitted SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) reporting and compliance documents under '33 Act and '34 Act, including proxy statements, registration statements, section 16 filings; also blue sky notices, private offering memoranda, Over the Counter Bulletin Board market listing applications. Second chaired mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs. Conducted shareholder votes. Entity formation and maintenance in various jurisdictions. Significant client contact and counseling.• Intellectual property practice: performed copyright, trademark (state and federal) and domain name conflict checks, client trade name counseling; prepared and managed prosecutions; analyzed website content for IP issues.

Los Angeles, Ca

Major Litigation Department.• Complex trial preparation: maintained and corrected errors in Concordance litigation databases; selected to assist onsite at outside counsel Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe to prepare trial exhibits and witness notebooks.• Performed document review and privilege check with regard to trial issues of environmental remediation at dozens of Superfund sites and multi-layered insurance coverage.• Selected to conducted special legal, historical and topical research using archives, hardcopy and on-line resources to prepare reports summarizing various aspects of company operations and corporate structure.1991-1992, through Gibson, Arnold & Associates.

Los Angeles Air Force Base

Space Systems Division (SSD)• Prepared and presented classified briefings on a near-daily basis, reporting on developments in foreign space and missile systems to senior staff including flag and field officers; drafted and edited technical threat analysis reports for U.S. space system program offices.• Handpicked to serve on SSD Commander’s Action Group; prepared briefing material and organized VIP briefings and visits, and executive-level events.• Highest Reserve Rank: Captain. Honorable Discharge. • Medals: Air Force Commendation, Air Force Achievement, National Defense.• Company Grade Officers Council volunteer: organized and assisted with charity and community events.

Juris Doctor

Activities and Societies: Moot Court Honors Board: Executive Board, Competitor in Cardozo Copyright Law Competition. Teaching Ass't.

Bachelor'S Degree, Modern European History

Senior Thesis: “Croatian Nationalism as a Divisive Force in Yugoslavia,” independently written; researched in Croatian, German.