Manage all legal aspects of corporation, including compliance with corporate law, labor law, and government regulations. Provide advice and counsel to company management, transact corporate contracts and rental agreements, and oversee risk management programs. Administer human resources and marketing departments.

Directed day-to-day operations and programs to support the volunteer service members of the California State Guard. Manage funds, organize marketing initiatives, and oversee volunteer staff.

Served as Deputy Director for External Affairs at the California State Guard (CSG). Experience included overseeing logistics for wildland fire-fighting response missions, managing property accountability programs for the C4 Directorate, and providing legal assistance as a JAG officer to National Guard and State Guard service members. Awarded The California Commendation Medal and The California Medal of Merit.

Founded Mayflower Law with a mission to provide affordable legal services to startups and small businesses, individuals with immigration matters, and veterans with benefit applications and appeals.

Part-time research attorney for intellectual property and complex commercial litigation firm. Assisted in litigation preparation, including drafting legal memoranda and briefs, researching case law and statutes, and responding to discovery requests.

Developed a business law practice with a focus on advising private companies on the formation and operation of business entities, intellectual property, employment, securities, franchising, and due diligence review. Expanded firm’s business practice group by cultivating expertise in advising clients regarding state and federal law and policy affecting the legal cannabis industry. Worked on immigration and refugee cases, including pro bono visa petitions and special immigrant visa applications.

Assisted supervising attorneys with housing rights litigation and policy advocacy. Projects included drafting legal research memos in the areas of foreclosure and loss mitigation, indexing responses to discovery requests, and assisting with client intakes.

Worked with Professor Katerina Linos on various editing projects. Assignments included preparing a book manuscript for publication, conducting line edits, cite-checking, creating terminology outlines, conforming manuscripts to the publisher’s style guide, and performing analyses of the consistency between theory and application sections.

Managed all regulatory agency compliance for on-road and off-road fleets. Generated various fleet and sales reports, processed all accounts payable for the equipment division and maintained files for corporate documents, administration and accounting. Organized action items, messages and calendar appointments for company owner. Administered the Mario Ghilotti Family Foundation, a 501(c)(3).

Assisted supervising attorneys in various civil litigation and transaction matters. Researched and wrote detailed memoranda on issues concerning trade secret misappropriation, corporate shareholder duties, and measure of damages in real property disputes.

Worked with deputy city attorneys to enforce San Francisco city ordinances. Researched and wrote detailed memoranda on issues concerning public nuisance abatement, including areas such as gang injunctions, receiverships, public foreclosure auctions and federal preemption of state and local laws.

Completed a summer internship within the Misdemeanor Unit. Assisted supervising attorneys with file work-ups, discovery, transcription, research and filing. Special assignments included sitting second chair for a jury trial and designing a training manual for use by future interns.

Assisted Associate Professor Emily Merriman in researching twentieth century British, American and Caribbean poetry, including cross-referencing citations, proofing bibliographies, indexing, locating articles and ordering books.