• Strategic legal and business planning for small technology and entrepreneurial corporations, including designing business plans and negotiating contracts.• Reviewing, negotiating, analyzing and drafting changes to various contracts, advising clients of legal benefits and strategies thereto. • As Counsel for local businesses, litigating legal matters, and litigation management. • Creating 501(c)(3) companies including developing by laws, articles of incorporation and complying with all state and federal laws.• Pro-bono work including real estate, employment and breach of contract matters.• Trusts and estate planning.

• Practice Areas: Business Litigation, Corporate Transactional, Ethics, Assistant General Counsel.• Successfully second chaired 23 day $25 million arbitration, assisting Partner in witness examinations and oral arguments. Preparation work included drafting direct and cross examinations of witnesses, preparing witnesses for depositions and trial testimony, attending depositions, and establishing and researching legal theories. Supervised document management and production, scanning and search engine design, and attorney research. • Drafted filings including Complaints, Answers, Motions for Summary Judgment, Motions to Dismiss, Motions to Compel, Motion for Sanctions, and Trial Briefs.• Successfully wrote and argued Motion for Issue Sanctions against Fortune 10 company.• Negotiated settlement offers, prepared settlement releases and finalized related court filings.• Managed outside counsel, directing work assignments, reviewing for substance and efficiency, and prepared reports for General Counsel regarding same.• Managed internal junior and senior attorneys, supervising work product and assignments, evaluating efficiency, responsibility for hiring and termination of staff and attorneys, responsibility for review and first approval of client billing.

• Reviewed court filings in probate, criminal, and various civil litigation matters and prepared judicial options and minute orders for Superior Court Judges.• Researched cases of first impression for judicial opinions.

• Lead counsel in misdemeanor trial: conducted pre-trial evidentiary hearings, performed direct and cross examinations of witnesses, created and delivered opening and closing statements with power point, and jury voir dire, and researched, authored, and successfully argued motions in limine. • Received a not guilty verdict.• Wrote motions in felony/murder cases regarding lying in wait special circumstances, Kelly-Fyre general acceptance of expert testimony and requesting benefits for capital inmates, and assisted counsel at trial.

• Created Supreme Court Review for school discussion forum, reviewed and analyzed the Supreme Court’s October 2003 and 2004 dockets, prepared presentation discussion synopses and documents.• Researched the Laci and Scott Peterson case; analyzed defense strategies and judge’s application of the law, including the issue of the death of a fetus to charge a defendant with the death penalty.• Researched, reviewed, and analyzed legal and psychological publications relating to priests and mandatory reporting of child abuse.

• Researched cases of first impression, including whether a California attorney can present a case before the NASD arbitration panel in Nevada.• Assessed attorney disciplinary acts, drafted pleadings with relevant charges, and attended disbarment trials.

• Researched legal issues for court filings and attorneys’ memorandums regarding antitrust, securities fraud, and breach of contract causes of action.• Managed junior paralegals and temporary attorneys.• Created and managed Summation database for document management of 500,000 documents.

• Reviewed, compiled and indexed documents in preparation for depositions, settlement hearings and trial.• Summarized deposition transcripts for attorneys’ review for settlement conferences and trial.

• Assisted attorneys with examinations, compiled exhibits for co-counsels, and summarized daily testimony in multi-million dollar securities fraud and breach of contract arbitration.• Attended and prepared for trial: assisted attorneys with direct and cross examinations and exhibits, summarized deposition and trial transcripts, created demonstrative exhibits, drafted jury questions and prepared jury notebooks.• Researched legal issues for court filings and attorneys’ memorandums regarding antitrust, securities fraud, and breach of contract causes of action.• Managed up to twenty junior paralegals and contract attorneys in complex legal disputes.• Conducted on-site interviews of clients regarding stock trading, risk evaluation, and document production.• Specialized in complex litigation including securities class action, mergers and acquisitions, trade secrets, breach of contract, patent infringement and pro-bono matters.• Firms include The Furth Firm, LLP, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Sherin & Lodgen, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, Scadden, Hamilton & Ryan, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox and Elliott

• Performed competitive analysis and company financial evaluations for industry reports, corporate finance pitches and marketing events.• Performed due diligence with appropriate parties.• Contacted coverage companies regarding quarterly and fiscal earnings release information; monitored earnings conference calls, and reported results and interpretations.

• Assisted attorneys with examinations, compiled exhibits for co-counsels, and summarized daily testimony in multi-million dollar securities fraud and breach of contract trial.

• Assisted attorneys with examinations, compiled exhibits, and summarized testimony in multi-million dollar trials.

• Attended and prepared for trial: assisted attorneys with direct- and cross-examinations and exhibits, summarized deposition and trial transcripts, created demonstrative exhibits, drafted jury questions and prepared jury notebooks.• Managed up to twenty junior paralegals and contract attorneys in complex legal disputes.• Drafted documents including correspondence to clients and documents to be filed with the court.• Conducted on-site interviews of clients regarding stock trading, risk evaluation, and document production.• Edited numerous papers for publication in legal journals.• Specialized in complex litigation including securities class action, mergers and acquisitions, trade secrets, breach of contract, patent infringement and pro-bono matters.