Melanie Cunningham Law Office PC is a boutique business and intellectual property law practice that provides legal advice to freelancers, entrepreneurs, and micro-and small business owners. We serve entrepreneurs in the following areas: * Business Formation & Maintenance* Contract review/Contract creation* Trademarks* Copyrights* Online Terms and Policies* Advertising Issues* Employee & Contractor Agreements* Estate Planning

• Global Investigations Unit SAR Team Lead – Manage a Quality Assurance team of seven, responsible for the coordination of the SAR filing workflow. Recommend edits to Suspicious Activity Reports to ensure detailed and effective communication to law enforcement; supervise the timely and accurate filing of SARs.• Provide assistance to investigative team during its preparation of SARs, including identification of suspects and positioning of narrative.• Provide training sessions and mentoring of new SAR team members. • Coordinate and oversee responses to law enforcement agencies requesting SAR support documentation.• Conduct proactive global relationship reviews for high risk clients with accounts with a substantial multijurisdictional nexus or with accounts across multiple business sectors.• Prepares investigation reports for each assigned high risk client documenting KYC/due diligence conducted for the client and all associated parties, judicious evaluation of negative news/media results, transactional activity reviews, analysis of expected versus actual transactional activity, and reviews of prior alerts and investigations.• Prepare Suspicious Activity Reports on a broad array of unusual activity including: suspicious wire transfers, shell and nesting activity through international correspondent bank accounts, structuring, suspicious credit card transactions in connection with possible human trafficking or other illegal activity, boiler room activity, layering, and funnel account activity. • Utilize Excel and Power Point for presentation of findings for each investigation, to support account closure recommendations, and to provide feedback to appropriate business units. • Managed and coordinated global name searches initiated by Legal and regional compliance units in response to significant negative news/media, information provided by law enforcement, or emerging AML typologies.

• Member of the Enforcement & Investigations unit within the Legal Department. Leader of a team of five. • Perform Quality Assurance of SARs written by members of the team, and recommending necessary edits prior to approval and filing with FinCEN.• Examined and assessed 20-30 incident reports per week submitted by Compliance department and all business lines within the bank; Identify suspicious or unusual activity and make determination of whether to file a SAR. • Conducted due diligence for suspects using internal systems, as well as open sources and Lexis in review and assessment of negative news.• Conducted monthly reviews and prpare SARs pertaining to correspondent banks for shell and nesting activity, suspected terrorist financing, and trending.• Independently prepared SARs filed with FinCEN on a broad array of suspicious activity including: FinCEN 314 (a) and 314 (b) investigations, check fraud, suspicious wire transfers, shell and nesting activity through correspondent bank accounts, suspicious cover payments, trending, structuring, mortgage backed securities, money laundering and terrorist financing. Ensured each report had sufficient supporting documentation.• Liaised with Legal Counsel, Relationship Managers and Corporate Security to complete investigations.

• Member of transaction surveillance team within the BSA/Anti-Money Laundering group. • Conducted the first level of review of all potentially suspicious activity generated by the automated surveillance system.• Reviewed suspicious transactions daily and followed-up with responsible business group for explanations. • Escalated unresolved unusual transactions to Suspicious Activity Report committee for possible SAR filing.• Requested background information and media alerts from approved vendors for new foreign clients.

Performed on-line document review during discovery portion of products liability case

• Conducted research to support various motions in the Family and Matrimonial Group. • Prepared memoranda for internal analysis and review. • Prepared detailed expense spreadsheet for child support cases. • Assisted supervising attorney at court hearings.