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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

* Writer for automotive enthusiasts Avants magazine on broad spectrum of topics.* Work with photographers and other personnel to produce content for publication.

* Represented plaintiffs in catastrophic personal injury, products liability, and medical malpractice.* Drafted dispositive pleadings in multiple jurisdictions, mediation briefs, and demand materials.* Worked on all levels of discovery, from interviewing fact witnesses, to compiling responsive materials, to drafting and answering discovery, to reviewing materials produced by all parties.* Conducted legal research on a broad range of legal issues, from liability for fan injuries by NCAA players, to emergency vehicle operator liability, to municipality accountability issues. * Worked with expert witnesses on investigation, testimony and expert opinion compilation.

Bothell, Wa

* Developed, initiated and maintained policies and procedures for company operations to prevent illegal, unethical, or improper conduct.* Collaborated with other departments including Quality Assurance and Operations to direct compliance issues to appropriate resolution. * Responded to compliance audits conducted by individual states, vendors, and federal agencies.* Worked in a team with internal (CEO, Management) or external (strategic business partners) members on specific task oriented projects.* Acted as an independent review and evaluation body to ensure that compliance issues/concerns within the organization are being appropriately evaluated, investigated and resolved.* Ensured proper reporting of violations or potential violations to duly authorized enforcement agencies as appropriate and/or required.* Functioned as corporate in-house legal counsel on assorted business matters and legal risk assessments.

Greater Seattle Area

* Tested Ringtail E-Discovery software and consulted on assorted aspects of the program.* Performed Release and Stability, Integration and Development testing for assorted releases.* Worked with software developers, programmers, and management to identify software errors.* Identified and rewrote tests to accommodate software updates.

Edmonds, Wa

* Represented both adoptive parents and birth parents in the adoption process.* Worked with families, agencies, and organizations at all levels of the adoption practice.* Drafted pleadings and argued adoption related motions in multiple state courts.

Edmonds, Wa

* Represented plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of practice areas, including commercial contract disputes, asset recovery and financial fraud, trade dress, securities claims, legal malpractice, construction defect, RICO, TEDRA actions, and environmental law. * Advised commercial clients in litigation avoidance and pre-litigation strategy.* Part of a litigation team involving international dispute with discovery and depositions in Australia, Hong Kong, and East and West Coast locations; Duties included fact investigations, legal research, deposition preparation, expert witness management, e-discovery and paper document management. * Functioned as outside corporate counsel for high net worth individual in financial services industry; Duties included strategic oversight of twelve plus (12+) pending state and federal actions with intertwined facts, issues, and causes of action.* Drafted pleadings and argued motions in both State and Federal jurisdictions.* Strategic management of outside counsel including budget control and ghostwriting. * Conducted litigation resolution analysis for commercial clients.* Supervised junior associates and staff on specific assignments.

Greater Seattle Area

* Resolved approximately 100 cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.* Areas of practice included commercial litigation, employment, public utility law.* Represented Fortune 500 Company in arbitration against national professional sports organization, resulting in the return of a professional sport to Seattle area. * Second chaired two-week construction defect jury case with $7.5M in claims.* Represented Seattle ship-building company in Monorail condemnation proceedings.* Interacted with business clients and company principals on a regular basis.* Prepared State and Federal Court pleadings, discovery requests and responses.* Managed electronic and paper discovery issues, with document exchanges ranging from 1,500 to over 400,000 documents.

Greater Seattle Area

* Conducted independent research in land use and environmental law.* Drafted pleadings filed in both State and Federal Courts.* Office represented Local County in F.E.R.C. hydroelectric dam relicensing process.* Extensively analyzed 1996 Telecommunications Act provisions for wireless interests.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics - Environmental Studies

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