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Santa Ana, California

• Corporate Counsel for a nonprofit corporation which owns and operates approximately 60 career education schools nationwide.
• Review and negotiate company contracts of all types, including technology licensing, purchasing, consulting, brokerage, vendor, and externship and affiliation contracts.
• Perform all types of real estate legal work associated with the company’s lease portfolio, including acquisition and divestiture of campuses.
• Handle legal and business disputes on commercial, real estate, and assorted other matters.
• Handle regulatory compliance, governmental investigations, subpoenas, and student complaint matters.
• Supervise outside counsel and review billing.

Santa Ana, CA

• Corporate Counsel for a publicly traded corporation which owned and operated as many as 130 career education schools nationwide and in Canada.
• Regularly reviewed and negotiated company contracts of all kinds, including equipment lending, technology licensing, purchasing, consulting, brokerage, and vending contracts.
• Performed legal work associated with the leasing and development of new campuses, call centers, and offices, as well as all ongoing work for the company’s large lease portfolio and divestitures of leased and owned.
• Took the lead role on asset and stock sale transactions for subsidiary entities and campuses.
• Supervised litigation, including real estate, commercial, telemarketing statutory compliance, and debt collection matters.
• Handled legal and business disputes on commercial, real estate, and assorted other matters.

Newport Beach, CA

• Solo legal practice, representing clients such as Douglas Emmett and Healthcare Data Solutions in real estate, general corporate and commercial matters.

Irvine, CA

• Vice President and Real Estate Counsel for a privately-held company which owned and operated approximately 300 full service health clubs nationally during the time of my employment.
• Performed legal work associated with development of new health and fitness clubs: leases, sale-leaseback transactions, purchases, and work related to construction, lending and entitlements.
• Performed all legal work on 16-20 completed new health club transactions per year.
• Supervised outside counsel on real estate transactional and litigation matters.
• Handled ongoing landlord-tenant relations, general real estate and corporate work, general contract drafting and review, negotiation of office leases, and overseeing of lease expense audits.

Irvine, CA

• Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Vice President for a publicly-traded corporation which owned and operated up to 350 restaurants nationwide during the time of my employment.
• Responsibilities included retail leasing, purchase transactions, sale-leaseback transactions, major corporate transactions, general corporate and contract work, and day-to-day advice, assistance and involvement with.
• Worked extensively on the sale of the El Torito restaurant chain in 2000, the Prandium bankruptcy in 2002-2003, and the bankruptcies and asset sales of the Chi-Chi’s, Koo Koo Roo and Hamburger Hamlet restaurant chains.
• Handled landlord-tenant disputes, condemnation negotiations, and various contract disputes.
• Supervised outside counsel, reviewed billing, and negotiated payment arrangements.

Costa Mesa, CA

• Associate in the Real Estate Department.
• Areas of practice included retail and office leasing, financing, purchase transactions and land use.
• Worked independently on the negotiation and documentation of retail leases for Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc. and AirTouch Cellular, cellular site leases and development for AirTouch Cellular, and office leases for the.

Riverside, CA

• Associate in the Public Law Department, representing a wide variety of municipal entities, including cities, school districts and water districts.
• Areas of practice included real estate, land use, municipal law, environmental law, public contracting, public law litigation and code enforcement.
• Prosecuted code enforcement for the City of Corona in municipal court.

Austin, TX

Summer Associate in the Environmental Protection Division

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law, 3.18 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Note on real property subject “The State Takings Clause and the Texas Coastline” published in the Texas.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Government, 3.67 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa. Pomona College “Outstanding Senior Thesis” award. Exchange program at University College, Oxford.