Providing instruction and coaching to law students in the areas of civil litigation and trial advocacy. Providing experiential training to create and hone necessary effective communication skills.

Contracting Counsel - Providing business, strategic, and legal counsel to internal clients. Negotiating agreements in consulting, services, IT, procurement, sales, mergers, and emerging industries and technologies. Negotiating teaming agreements, outsourcing agreements, terms of Requests for Proposals and Statements of Work. Providing negotiation and legal support services for Master Services Agreements and Master Consulting Agreements covering a broad spectrum of client needs. Focusing on creating pathways to success for the parties involved, while providing trusted counsel to clients providing methods and options to achieve business goals while acknowledging and managing risks associated with providing client-centric services.

Provided in-house advice to senior department officials on environmental, legislative, employment, and litigation matters for a department with a budget of 442 million dollars annually. Proactively seeking out strategies to reduce litigation risk and assisting with government investigations relating to environmental compliance and enforcement. Negotiated complicated agreements relating to compliance, remediation, and regulation. Trial preparation included briefs, memoranda, proposed orders, complaints, answers, and other documents.Represented the Department in labor and employment matters for a 900-person State entity.Litigated, negotiated, and resolved complex environmental matters, including Clean Water Act violations, Tidal Wetland violations, and Non-Tidal Wetland violations on behalf of the Maryland Department of the Environment.Highlights:* Environmental: Enforced statutes and regulations including CERCLA, RCRA, oil control regulations, and the Clean Water Act and dealt with violations within or affecting the State of Maryland. * Employment: Handled labor relations and employment matters, involving collective bargaining agreements, discrimination complaints and investigations, grievance settlements, EEO advice, and ADA compliance in Administrative, State, and Federal Courts. Investigate EEO, Fair Practice, and performance-related claims.* Litigation: Litigated complex environmental matters, including mediation and settlement negotiations, in Maryland Circuit Courts and the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings. Serve as first chair counsel in other jurisdictions. * Prosecution: As Board Prosecutor, prosecuted violations of regulations and statutes related to the Department of the Environment.* Legislative: Evaluated proposed legislation and possible impacts to the State of Maryland and the Department.

After working successfully with several law firms, I started and managed a private practice in Maryland. I advised and assisted corporations and individuals with first chair oversight of various complex proactive and defensive litigation.I leveraged my private and commercial experience by handling business disputes, criminal litigation, civil rights litigation, personal injury cases, and medical malpractice matters. My business thrived as I saved revenues for clients through shrewd defense, and recovered monetary damages on behalf of plaintiffs in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia in excess of 1 million dollars.• Managed all phases of litigation, resolving over 95% of all civil matters recovering over 1 million dollars in compensation to clients. • Represented criminal defendants including trials.• Negotiated significant monetary settlements to resolve civil litigation matters in the areas of commercial litigation, personal injury litigation, medical malpractice, employment litigation, and civil rights litigation.• Provided legal advice relating to corporate planning, corporate entity formation, growth, asset acquisitions and financing. Negotiating and drafting complicated agreements that protected organizational assets and clearly defined obligations between parties.• Business development and collaboration with industry stakeholders, community representatives, and interested members of the public.

• Litigated personal injury matters, medical malpractice matters, and civil rights matters, managing a large caseload ranging from initial intake through trial/resolution.• Investigated and evaluated cases as part of a newly opened office. Creating high quality relationships with clients that extended the firm brand throughout the metropolitan area, resulting in quick growth from a start-up practice to a large volume provider of high-quality legal services for the metropolitan area.• Business development through marketing and engagement with the public resulting in significant firm growth.

Litigation associate: Construction litigation matters. Court appearances, discovery, motions.

Associate: General commercial litigation matters, researching and drafting pleadings, motions, attending hearings, including intellectual property litigation and telecommunications law matters; land use matters, including replats, rezoning, attending community meetings; real estate, including title work, negotiating refinance documents, SNDA's, easements, preparing closing documents; municipal representation in tort matters.