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Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

• Provide legal solutions for public charities, religious organizations, trade associations, and other nonprofit organizations in protecting tax-exempt status, facilitating organizational operations, and managing risk.• Advise nonprofit organizations on a wide variety of corporate, tax, regulatory, religious liberty, and data privacy matters as they seek to fulfill their charitable, religious, educational, or other philanthropic missions to build, improve, and transform civil society.• Develop and implement operational, technological, and project management solutions for the firm’s practice.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

August 2015 - March 2017: Misdemeanor Trial Division, Fifth Municipal DistrictApril 2013 - July 2015: Misdemeanor Trial Division, Second Municipal DistrictOctober 2012 - April 2013: Appellate Division• Experienced in conducting trials, having brought over 130 cases to bench trial and 4 cases to jury trial. - Prepare cases for trial by collecting discovery through issuing subpoenas, conducting pre-trial conferences, and making plea offers. - Tried cases, argued motions, and conducted hearings before the Circuit Court of Cook County on misdemeanor and felony offenses by preparing witnesses for trial, conducting voir dire, giving opening statements, conducting direct examinations and cross-examinations, and giving closing arguments.• Resolved high-conflict situations during plea negotiations by using interpersonal skills to facilitate consensus among defense attorneys, victims, and other stakeholders.• Wrote 7 briefs to the 1st District Appellate Court, which required extensive research on case law and statutes, synthesis of complicated facts, and formulation of complex legal arguments, and prevailed in all cases but one.• Exercised excellent organizational, analytical, and communicative skills on a daily basis in the courtroom when handling caseloads frequently greater than 100 cases per day, prioritizing workflow to prepare cases for hearing, trial, or other resolution, and managing the many dimensions of each case in a fast-paced environment.

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

• Managed 3 videography, 3 photography, 2 post-production, and multiple social media and blogging teams during a 3 day conference hosting more than 8,000 attendees.• Created strategy and protocols for media teams’ logistics, production, and post-production projects for both before and during the conference• Worked with team leaders and executives to define project goals, constraints, and requirements.• Conducted post-event debriefing and performance evaluations with team members, team leaders, and executives.

Greater Michiana Area

• Conducted bench trial, preliminary examinations, arraignments, pre-trial conferences, settlement conferences, and post-trial hearings before the 4th District Court of Michigan.• Managed the deferred prosecution program for the Cass County Prosecutor’s Office; worked closely with victims and defendants to create customized sentence recommendations appropriately tailored to the offense and the parties involved, and ensured continued compliance with deferred prosecution agreements.• Trained incoming intern prosecutors how to conduct pre- and post-trial hearings.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Researched statutes regarding marriage and divorce from thirty states.• Attended working group meetings in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Greater Seattle Area

Princeton, Nj

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Provided administrative support for the biomedical intellectual property practice group.• Conducted training seminars for staff on how to use advanced features of the document management system.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Provided administrative support for the biomedical intellectual property practice group.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law, Cum Laude

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Theory