Responsible for all risk management issues as well as litigation management for proprietor of family-owned real estate investment and management firm. Focus on tax and financial planning, investment strategy, regulatory compliance with complex local housing codes, landlord/tenant issues, and employee relations. Conduct risk analysis and oversee implementation of risk mitigation program. Effectively minimize outside counsel fees during litigation through negotiation and strategic management.

Advised partners in rapidly growing technology startup. Oversaw legal affairs including employee relations and corporate agreements. Navigated partners’ executive non-compete agreements with former employer, draftd employee and client non-disclosure agreements. Structured, drafted and negotiated SAAS agreements for enterprise clients. Managed intellectual property rights with outside counsel.

Researched, drafted and edited Appellate and Texas Supreme Court briefs on a broad range of topics including due process and state immunity; undue influence and mental capacity; and non-recognition of foreign judgments. Provided memoranda on procedural and substantive issues including various aspects of discovery, documents appropriate for judicial notice, and private use of public right-of-ways. Briefed senior attorneys on complex client matters including multi-firm attorney representation and matters transferred to the firm with impending deadlines. Drafted motions and letters on matters such as contested case hearings, additional briefing, and substitute counsel. Prepared sensitive documents for expert review and discovery in matters such as fee agreement disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims and malpractice claims. Extensive legal research on many matters including breach of contract; insurance claims and tort claims; state and federal discrimination claims; disciplinary actions and official misconduct; procedurally complex matters intertwining state and federal proceedings; as well as many matrimonial and other family matters.

Performed substantial legal research, prepared extensive memoranda, edited and cite checked judicial opinions, assisted processing emergent applications. Topics included criminal matters as well as many family, civil and administrative appeals.

Represented low-income tenants in landlord-tenant negotiations and Municipal Court hearings. Analyzed legal issues including licensing requirements, USTRA provisions, and retaliatory evictions in preparation for negotiations, settlement conferences and hearings. Conducted client interviews, counseled clients on legal strategies, and negotiated favorable settlement terms with opposing counsel and landlords. Drafted settlement agreements.

Conducted legal research, drafted bench memoranda, observed trial and appellate arguments. Topics included a gender-based employment discrimination claim with an evidence spoliation issue, an appeal from the denaturalization resulting from a crime of moral turpitude, a court appointed attorney’s motion to be removed from a client’s case (an Anders motion), and whether a debt collector’s misstated fee notice sent to a debtor’s attorney violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Assisted research on the relationship between welfare reform and illicit drug use in adult women.

Evaluated data to provide statutory change recommendations for New Jersey public guardianship service. Prepared background information for surrogacy legislation presentations. Participated in legislative drafting meetings.