• Review and provide legal advice regarding contested bankruptcy and foreclosure matters; including drafting objections and negotiating settlements. • Drafting and implementing policy and procedural changes for the client’s business operations unit, to ensure compliance with changing laws and regulations.• Support the client’s business operations unit with internal and external audit responses

• Researched and wrote technical memorandum regarding separate limitation years and consolidated returns• Participated in audits regarding net operating losses, overall foreign losses, and the tax implications of audit client transactions

• Researched and wrote technical memorandum and opinions regarding tax consequences of reorganizing corporations in a variety of industries, including: intellectual property, oil and gas, shipping, and capital markets• Assisted in proposed restructures regarding foreign tax credit consequences • Created presentations for proposed reorganizing of corporations and potential consequences of the new proposed debt reclassification treasury regulations• Reviewed intercompany loan documents for clauses impacting taxation• Participated in an audit regarding foreign tax credits, earnings, and profits

• Argued a summary judgment motion in Tax Court• Participated in a Branerton conference• Assisted Revenue Agents and provided written guidance on technical tax issues; and participated in taxpayer liability determinations

• Represented clients in hearings regarding, including but not limited to: motions for relief from stay, objections to notices of final cure payment, objections to confirmation, objection to notice of mortgage payment changes, and objections to proof of claim• Researched, drafted, and filed on matters related to, including but not limited to, objections to motions to sell property, motions to withdraw the reference, objections to post petition fee notices, objections to notice of final cure payments, certificates for default, proof of claims for first and second mortgages, and negotiated solutions to objections to confirmation and objections to proof of claims

• Researched, drafted, and delivered before the court memoranda on a variety of bankruptcy issues including recent split of authority regarding lien stripping in Chapter 7 bankruptcy while observing trials, court motions, and meeting of creditors

• Collaborated with MCJ staff towards implementing and appropriating a landlord/tenant settlement terms agreement• Assisted homeowners with MHA Program, successfully modifying first and second mortgages• Performed variety of legal tasks including interviewing clients, analyzing documents, obtaining case facts, and preparing memoranda

• Investigated federal class action potential for ongoing landlord/tenant lawsuit related issues, including Low Income Tax Credit and property in contract for deed fraud, successfully concluded