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Serve as national coordinating counsel for a Fortune 500 company; coordinate with defense counsel across the country to ensure consistent representation; assist in developing strategies for ensuring consistent overall defenses and reporting to clients and insurers; coordinate and prepare consistent discovery responses and document review pursuant to requests in multiple jurisdictions; conduct interviews of potential local counsel; review and interpret statistical data; draft motions and briefs; conduct research and prepare legal memoranda on various litigation issues in preparation for briefing including on dispositive motions and government contract bid procurement issues; successfully briefed and argued motion for summary judgment on behalf of non-profit entity

Drafted discipline- and rule-based submissions for arbitration before the Third Division of the National Railroad Adjustment Board and numerous Public Law Boards in interpreting the collective bargaining agreements with the labor organizations; conducted research of previous arbitration awards; reviewed and handled claims files; drafted correspondence to union representatives regarding pending matters; conducted legal research for use in negotiations under the Railway Labor Act and in training sessions for labor relations officers, managers, and directors