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Main focus is on patent prosecution in the software and mechanical arts, as well as trademark prosecution, counseling, and litigation. Some duties include federal intellectual property litigation.

• Assist with both state and federal cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
• Practice areas include commercial and real estate litigation, including partnership disputes, lease disputes, mortgage disputes and other commercial litigation.
• My duties include conducting legal research and writing memoranda, motions and briefs, propounding and responding to discovery, preparing for and conducting depositions, and other duties as assigned.

• First chair numerous arbitrations; frequent and various court appearances.
• Assist with numerous state and federal cases, from client intake stage to Arizona Supreme Court appeals.
• Broad-based practice areas include personal injury, real estate litigation, landlord/tenant, commercial litigation, construction litigation, collections, intellectual property, and transactional (corporate and real.
• Duties include: conducting legal research and writing memoranda, motions and briefs, propounding and responding to discovery requests, attending hearings, arguing motions in court, preparing for and conducting.

• Assisted with all aspects of civil and commercial litigation, primarily in construction defect insurance defense and some employment law, with a particular emphasis on fact discovery and legal research/writing.
• Helped advise and represent various governmental employee grievance and appeals boards.
• Successfully defended a geotechnical engineering firm from a $2million arbitration claim, and convinced the arbitrator to award approximately $400k in attorneys’ fees.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Conducted legal research, writing/editing portions of briefs, including an amicus brief for the US Supreme Court (regarding immigration) and a brief in the 9th Circuit (regarding civil asset forfeiture), wrote memoranda outlining issues, drafted motions, and various other civil litigation related tasks. Worked on SB1070, medical marijuana, voting issues.

Assisting with drafting various mechanical and software patent applications.

Generated various notes on a Directed Energy Weapons conference that took place at ASU in February, with the goal of writing a short paper for use by the defense establishment. Conducted various research and administrative tasks for the conference. The Security and Defense Systems Initiative (SDSI) conducted the conference with the goal of starting a.

Phoenix, AZ, US

Conducted research and editing functions for a book on legal issues surrounding drones and other unmanned aerial systems being published and edited by Professor Daniel Rothenberg.

Phoenix, AZ, US

Attended all classes, held office hours and conducted various review sessions and classes, including classes on personal jurisdiction and other Civil Procedure topics.

Phoenix, AZ, US

Conducted research and prepared Freedom of Information Act requests to the United States Departments of State, Justice, Defense, and the CIA regarding private security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Helped to prepare a research memo on current FOIA law in anticipation of litigation for the FOIA requests. Researched various Wikileaks 'leaks' for.

Phoenix, AZ, US

Lisa Foundation Patent Law Clinic. Worked on issues of patent prosecution, litigation, and licensing for independent local and national inventors and start-up companies. Drafted and began to prosecute provisional and non-provisional patent and trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Conducted legal research, performed fact investigations, and wrote memos outlining issues and making recommendations for several simple and complex civil litigation cases. These cases included a medical marijuana case, part of the SB1070 case, and various other local, state, and national cases.

US

Quality Assurance/Component Configuration Department. Audited manufacturer part numbers for interchangeability within the US Airways database system and the former America West Airlines database system. Researched and fixed various part number interchangeability problems as the former US Airways fleet and the former America West fleets were merged into one.

US

Calculated the probability of a twin engine failure occurring during flight over water for each of the various aircraft (Boeing and Airbus) in the AWA fleet. Implemented various manufacturer Service Bulletins for record keeping.

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B.S.E, Aerospace Engineering