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Greater New York City Area

• Direct a large and growing unit of eviction-defense attorneys implementing New York City’s Right to Counsel law to provide legal representation to all low-income tenants being evicted in Housing Court.
• Supervise a management team of 12 supervising attorneys and oversee a unit of over 90 attorneys and paralegals. Expanded unit from a staff of about 25 in January 2017 to 92 presently.
• Developed and refined, with input from staff at all levels, an intricate and standardized structured interviewing process to recruit numerous supervisors, staff attorneys, and paralegals.
• Oversee and create trainings for staff attorneys and paralegals.
• Manage the operation and compliance of four separate contracts with a combined budget of over $11 million.
• Discuss legal strategy in complex cases on a regular basis with supervising attorneys and staff attorneys, especially appellate matters, cases that are in Supreme Court and cases that involve claims or defenses related.

Greater New York City Area

New York, NY

• Supervised five Staff Attorneys, one PipS Fellow, and two Paralegals who handle eviction cases in Brooklyn, eviction cases citywide referred by the Mobile Legal Help Center, and administrative proceedings before NYCHA.
• Reviewed and revised pleadings, correspondence, motion papers, bills of particulars and discovery, stipulations, and make decisions on litigation and settlement strategies.
• Prepared Staff Attorneys and paralegals for court and administrative appearances and appear with them as necessary for particularly challenging appearances.
• Developed and enhanced referral networks with Goodwill, Success Academy, and council member Mathieu Eugene’s office to obtain better numbers under TRU’s HPLP grant.
• Spearheaded TRU’s 2017 summer intern recruitment
• Guide and mentor Staff Attorneys and Supervising Attorneys in need of support.

New York, NY

• Supervised nine Staff Attorneys who handle Storm-related consumer law cases. Review and revise pleadings, correspondence, motion papers, discovery requests, and make decisions on litigation strategies. Prepare Staff.
• Supervised two Financial Counselors that provide services to Sandy-affected individuals and families facing Storm-related financial difficulties.
• Represented and supervised the representation of Superstorm Sandy victims in consumer-related civil court and administrative proceedings, including defending mechanic's lien foreclosures, defending consumers from.
• Advised clients on disaster-related consumer law issues, including mechanic's liens, contractor fraud, consumer debt, and taxes.

Greater New York City Area

• Represented Superstorm Sandy victims in consumer-related civil court and administrative proceedings.
• Advised and represent clients on disaster-related issues, including mechanics' liens, contractor fraud, consumer debt, and taxes.

New York, NY

• Represented low-income New Yorkers in consumer law matters, including debt collection lawsuits, identity theft cases, bankruptcies, foreclosure proceedings, and issues pertaining to taxes, federal and private student.
• Successes included: saving the homes of three families in foreclosure by dramatically reducing their mortgage payments through HAMP modifications; vacating numerous default judgments in debt collection cases in which.
• Represented numerous Spanish-speaking clients in an array of legal matters.
• Performed technical assistance work with dozens of nonprofit organizations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Columbus, Ohio to enable them to build their capacity to implement financial development strategies with.
• Created and facilitated interactive financial development and consumer law trainings and webinars and developed companion written materials for practitioners nationwide.
• Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated contracts for many of the Clinic’s partnerships.

New York, NY

• Conducted intake interviews in English and Spanish for complainants with claims of discrimination and violation of civil rights laws in employment, housing, and places of public accommodation.
• Handled jurisdictional cases from start to finish, which included drafting complaints, investigating claims of discrimination, brokering settlements with adverse parties, drafting no probable cause determinations, and.
• Dual filed cases on behalf of complainants with claims under Title VII, ADA, and ADEA.Managed numerous cases with Spanish-speaking complainants.Served as an EEO professional for the Commission, investigating internal.

New York, NY

• Taught a ninth grade introductory law course and a tenth grade criminal justice course.
• Motivated students to engage in genuine issue spotting, critical thinking, and legal analysis and writing.
• Developed a unit on Copyright law, which culminated in ninth graders applying the statutory fair use factors to analyze whether or not Two Live Crew’s parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” constituted copyright.
• Created mock Supreme Court curriculum for tenth graders in which they considered the case of Uttecht v. Brown (a case before the Supreme Court that year considering whether the exclusion of a particular prospective.
• Served as the faculty advisor for the school’s Model United Nations team.

New York, NY

• Researched and drafted legal memoranda on various topics including: vacating and confirming arbitral awards, service of process, collateral estoppel, res judicata, and numerous issues relating to the representation of.

Jd, Graduated With High Honors

Activities and Societies: Connecticut Law Review, Articles Editor; Teaching Assistant for Property (fall 2004 – spring 2005); Research.

Ba, History

Activities and Societies: Community Impact, Volunteer Teacher (prepared Spanish-speaking adult students for GED math exam in Spanish).

High Scool Diploma