Chief executive officer and lead attorney of a new firm centered in Santa Ana, intent on making a difference throught community based outreach and common sense availability to clients.

Criminal law attorney, also handling appeals and post conviction relief. Chair and attorney of the immigration department.

• Managed the day-to-day operations of the firm’s legal department, while providing legal counseling to sales team, marketing team, and customer service. • Oversaw employment/civil litigation against the corporation and its members, including settling six cases, to reduce future litigation cost, while maintaining the best interests for the firm. Additionally, litigated the successful dismissal of a contentious, high-profile civil suit. • Prepared and reviewed agreement and other transactional instruments including but not limited to commercial contracts, service agreements, and a new retainer agreement that reduced liability for the firm by clarifying ambiguities and structuring a new retainer in a pro-corporation format.• Created a series of databases and standard operating procedures to increase efficiency and prevent discrepancies between the legal and financial departments. All in an effort to implement risk adverse policies meant to prevent corporate liability.

• Maintained excellent relationships with clients, and mediated disputes between the firm and dissatisfied clients.• Oversaw and managed over forty subordinates, including ten attorneys, while maintaining a high volume of immigration cases involving the EOIR, USCIS, BIA and ICE. • Produced different forms to apply for immigration benefits, including but not limited to family petitions, work visas, U visas, T visas, EB-2, O-visas, EB-5, E-2 visas, adjustment of status, and naturalization.

• Represented clients in over thirty immigration courts across the country and lawyered successfully the adjudication of over twenty-five contested trials.• Excelled in legal writing tasks, such as drafting briefs, motions and memorandums.• Appeared before the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County to represent minors in their adjudication of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status as a form of eventual relief for immigration status.

• Prepared pleadings and collaborated in trial preparation for civil litigation cases. Argued contested motions in state court. Conducted depositions to assess the credibility of opposing parties and witnesses.• Advised and counseled clients on a variety of legal issues, including bankruptcy, civil litigation and estate planning.• Researched and drafted motions and memorandums of law on a variety of civil litigation matters.

• Produced complaints, amendments to complaints, discovery, demurrers, oppositions to demurrers, motions to strike and motions-in-limine in civil litigation cases. Prepared exhibits, motions, and jury instructions for trial.• Prepared witness for depositions, outlined and developed strategies for deposing opposing party witnesses.

• Oversaw detailed review of licensing agreements, contracts, and translation of contract from English to Spanish, and vice versa.• Produced contracts in English, including 3rd party service agreements between the firm, clients and a surrogate motherhood firm in Israel. • Translated multi-million-dollar contracts between the multinational clothing corporation, Mango Inc., and a California based software company, JustEnough Corporation.