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Greater St. Louis Area

Edwardsville, Illinois

• Defended civil cases of various types and prosecuted and defended insurance coverage cases.• Significant practice areas included motor vehicle liability, construction injury liability, consumer fraud, premises liability, products liability, real-estate professional liability, uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, and motor vehicle, homeowners and commercial general liability insurance coverage.• Handled cases at all stages of litigation, from initial pleadings through discovery, trial and appeal; managed as many as 60 cases at a time with little or no supervision and no paralegal support.

Belleville, Illinois

• Advised and represented individuals and small businesses in a wide variety of civil cases, claims and disputes resolved without litigation, and transactions.• Significant practice areas included bankruptcy, collections, real estate litigation, construction defect litigation, commercial transactions, consumer fraud, estate and probate litigation, family law, insurance coverage, landlord-tenant, mechanics lien and construction payment bond litigation, mortgage foreclosure, personal injury and property damage litigation, real estate transactions and secured transactions.

Belleville, Illinois

• Defended personal injury and property damage cases and represented insurers in coverage cases.• Significant practice areas included automobile and other motor vehicle liability, construction injury liability, F.E.L.A., municipal liability, premises liability, products liability, railroad grade crossing liability, uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, and automobile, homeowners and commercial general liability insurance coverage.• Prepared and assisted partners in preparing cases for trial; handled all or substantially all trial preparation in several cases subsequently settled for small fractions of previous settlement demands.• Took and defended more than 200 discovery and evidence depositions, including dozens of depositions of physicians, engineers, economists and other expert witnesses.

St. Louis, Missouri

• Performed and supervised financial, operational and consumer regulatory compliance audits of $4 billion bank holding company’s lead and affiliate banks.• Drafted audit reports and presented findings and recommendations to management.

Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, Law

Bachelor Of Science, Accountancy