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Golden, Colorado, United States

Supervise legal operations for national law firm. Provide strategic guidance on substantive legal issues across the firm. Provide attorney training and education. Develop and implement national management policies.

Opened and managed Tyson & Mendes' Colorado office.

San Diego, California, United States

Handle all aspects of civil litigation from inception through trial. Areas of specialty include: professional malpractice, accounting malpractice, directors and officers liability, products liability, attorney malpractice, premises liability, catastrophic injury, business litigation, wrongful death, landlord/tenant, and general civil litigation. Recent accomplishments include:•Founded the Colorado branch of the Tyson & Mendes law firm;•Managed a seven attorney team handling insurance matters from inception through verdict.•Obtained a $16,800 verdict and recovered costs from plaintiff in an admitted liability jury trial where plaintiff sought over $800,000 in damages. •Obtained a zero arbitration award on behalf of a national medical sales device company in defense of a $1,500,000 dispute with a sales contractor;•Routinely parachuted in for the defense and monitoring of high-exposure liability and damages claims in state and federal courts throughout the United States against the top plaintiff attorneys in the world.•Parachuted in to take over defense of $50,000,000 traumatic brain injury case against one of the top three plaintiff’s lawyers in California, resulting in favorable pre-trial settlement; and•Selected as primary liaison for business and professional clientele including accountants, directors & officers, fiduciaries, attorneys, and business people.

Advised on all aspects of operation including contract negotiation, claims exposure, employment issues, partnership agreements, and general operations. • Negotiated multiple claims pre-litigation, thereby saving corporation extensive outside counsel legal fees and minimizing exposure.

Taught legal research for LexisNexis at the three San Diego law schools including: University of San Diego, California Western, and Thomas Jefferson. Noteworthy accomplishments included:• Took over Westlaw-preferred territory and built Lexis-preferred student body and faculty;• Presented at multiple national and regional conferences;• Awarded Lexis Law School representative of the year.

San Diego, Ca And Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Acted as legal counsel to "Valley of the Khans" expedition to Mongolia.Expedition team member in search of Genghis Khan's lost tomb.Featured member of National Geographic "Valley of the Khans" documentary first aired in November of 2011.

San Diego, California

Managed all aspects of litigation from case inception through trial. Trained and supervised multiple junior attorneys. Primary areas of focus included catastrophic injury, general liability, wrongful death, premises liability, food-borne illness, products liability, landlord tenant, and commercial disputes.

Juris Doctor, Law, Ranked In Top 1/3Rd Of Graduating Class (Top-25 Nationally Ranked Law School)

Activities and Societies: Manager and Staff Writer for the law Journal of Justice, Race & Gender

B.A., English, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Member of Honors Program; Member of NCAA Division I National Championship Wrestling Team; Four year Army ROTC.