LEGAL EXPERIENCE: • Active equity partner with a focus on intellectual property (IP) law and protecting the innovation and creativity of independent inventors, startups, universities, and corporations. • Provides strategic advice to corporate clients regarding their patents, trade secrets, trade dress, trademarks, copyrights, and the management, licensing, and enforcement of their IP portfolio. • Formulates budgets, timelines, and cost-effective strategies for IP portfolio protection (domestic and international), the avoidance of IP claims, and the litigation of IP claims when necessary. • Investigates claims of, and generates reports and opinions about, patentability, infringement, and the freedom to operate or practice. • Represents corporate clients in negotiations, mediations, discovery procedures, depositions, and litigations (district and appellate courts), in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in appeals and inter partes review (IPR) actions. • Active member of the firm's Branding and Content Practice Group, Litigation Practice Group, and the Mechanical & Aerospace Patent Practice Group.LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: • Elected by fellow equity partners to serve on the firm's triumviral Executive Committee which leads the firm, sets policy, supervises personnel, and manages the business and operations. • Prior Litigation Practice Group Leader and Deputy Litigation Practice Group Leader, providing training, encouraging best practices, and reviewing budgets and billing rates. • Chairs the firm's File Retention and Destruction Committee and has led the effort to eliminate document storage costs. • Member of the Marketing Committee. • Member of the firm's 2022 Advancement Committee and Design Team which, after 92 years, designed, outfitted, and managed the change to a new multi-million dollar state-of-the-art facility.

***** MOST SENIOR USAFR ATTORNEY AT 25TH AIR FORCE *****JOB DESCRIPTION: • Advises the 25th Air Force Commander (CC), a Major General, and the Commander’s Staff; provides legal services for an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) focused Numbered Air Force (NAF) with 27,000 plus personnel, 6 Wings and Centers, and 74 plus global units. • Assists the Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) lead nine (9) attorneys and paralegals; provides professional oversight of sixty (60) plus legal personnel at four (4) Wing legal offices. • Provides specialized advice to the CC/Staff and six (6) Wings/Centers on ISR, cyber, intelligence oversight (IO), acquisition, ethics, and host-tenant issues. • Provides counsel on Inspector General (IG) matters, commander-directed investigations, joint and service doctrine, and civil law issues.

***** MOST SENIOR USAFR ATTORNEY AT THE AIR FORCE ISR AGENCY *****JOB DESCRIPTION: • Provides legal advice to the Commander, a Major General, and the Commander’s Staff of a Field Operating Agency (FOA) with 19,000 plus personnel, a $2.1B operating budget, and 70 plus global units. • Advises the Commander and the Directors for the Air Force ISR Agency, two Wings, two Centers, and one Group on ISR organizational, training, equipment, and operational legal issues. • Delivers specialized advice for intelligence oversight (IO), adverse actions, ethics, contracting, and worldwide host-tenant relations. • Provides counsel on Inspector General (IG) matters, commander-directed investigations, joint and service doctrine, and civil law issues.

***** MOST SENIOR USAFR ATTORNEY AT USSTRATCOM *****JOB DESCRIPTION: • Provides legal advice and policy guidance to the USSTRATCOM Commander, subordinate commanders, and Combatant Command (COCOM) staff directorates. • Advisor on treaty interpretations, rules of engagement (ROE), statutory/directive authority of the commander, and military justice systems. • Provides legal support on space, information operations, global missile defense, global strike, and operational law. • Advises on civilian personnel, fiscal law, government ethics issues; reviews publications to ensure legal compliance.

JOB DESCRIPTION: • Legal support for major defense system acquisition from strategy to source selection to production and sustainment. • Counsel for major defense system acquisition programs managed by the Aeronautical Systems Center program offices. • Supports research and development (R&D) and foreign military sales (FMS) programs for the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Security Assistance Center. • Reviews multi-billion dollar contract actions to ensure compliance with statutes, regulations, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Air Force policy.