Michael E. Secrist, Esq. Email & Phone Number

Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Founded in 1970, Finkel Law Firm LLC (the “Finkel Firm”) has been serving the people and businesses of South Carolina for over forty years.As a Litigation Law Clerk, I had the opportunity to provide research and work products for our Litigation, HOA, Residential & Commercial Real Estate, and Probate departments as well as assist with the drafting of expert opinions related to insurance defense, duty to defend, and bad faith.Finkel Law Firm LLC has developed into a full service law firm, handling all types of litigation, residential and commercial real estate, corporate, finance, bankruptcy, foreclosure, and taxation matters. With offices in Columbia and Charleston, we have the opportunity to service all of our South Carolina clients more effectively.All of the members of the Firm are dedicated to the practice of law in South Carolina. Several attorneys teach at the Charleston School of Law and have taught at the National Judicial College.In addition, the lawyers are active in continuing legal education and various attorneys participate in the committees of the American Law Institute, the American Judicature Society, the American Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, The South Carolina Association for Justice, the South Carolina Bar Association, the Richland County Bar Association and the South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association. By remaining active in teaching and continuing legal education, Finkel Law Firm LLC seeks to identify emerging trends in the law to serve our client’s interests.Our goal is to provide quality legal services in a cost efficient manner. Each person in Finkel Law Firm LLC is dedicated to this goal.

Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

Stark Law Firm is a sole-proprietor employment law plaintiff's firm.Drafted complaints, interrogatories, requests for production, demand letters, answers to discovery, brief sections, and other documents related to employment law, business law, and personal injury casesRedacted evidence as part of answers to requests for productionCreated, maintain, and catalog client documents via hard copy and electronic methodsAssisted in preparing clients for depositions including generating lists of likely questions and acting as opposing counsel in questioning clients during deposition prep sessionsCreated exhibition notebooks for mediation and arbitration meetingsReceived in-take calls from potential clients and act as an initial buffer between the caller and the attorneyConducted miscellaneous clerkship tasks such as running documents to co-counsel or opposing counsel, filing or retrieving documents from the court, preparing and sending communications via US Mail, and other such tasksParticipated in a three-day arbitration against a large hospital systemProvided observations, insights, and ideas to the attorney verbally and via written notes during the above arbitration, in a post-arbitration synopsis, and assisted with the written closing brief submitted to the AAA with case research

Arlington, Va

As a Senior Resource Management Specialist, my primary role was making sure my consultants found projects that ignited their passion and sparked their curiosity. I did this by interviewing my consultants to understand their skills and interests, and then matched those preferences with our available roles and projects.I also worked directly with my Leadership team to understand their needs and concerns, contributed my services and insight to help them push the larger strategy forward, and provided them with the reports and information they needed. Additionally, I acted as the Campus Hire Resource Management POC for Federal Technology. In this role I worked behind the scenes to make sure incoming Campus Hires were set up in our internal systems, and I worked to get them staffed prior to their start date if possible by advertising them to project leaders. I worked to make our incoming Campus Hires as successful as possible, and made them feel like a part of the family from day one. From time to time I also co-facilitated orientation sessions at Deloitte University and in the Arlington, VA office, and I have presented a segment on deployment to audiences (80 - 200) of incoming Campus Hires.

Arlington, Va

• Led and mentored a small team of recruiters, developed recruiting strategies, and tracked team metrics• Qualified new job requirements with hiring and program managers to determine priority, non-negotiable candidate skills, clearance level required, Statement of Work, and program information such as employee burn rates, length of contract, contract recompetes, and other necessary details• Recruited 50 new hires a year for a variety of software, engineering, and IT clients• Hit annual quota and performance metrics by setting and achieving individual and company goals on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis• Performed and instructed full life-cycle recruiting techniques• Managed numerous new and legacy accounts with a focus on small and large - government and commercial - engineering services firms, electronic product development companies, and software companies• Interacted directly with client stakeholders on a daily basis• Possess strong experience with technical government contracts in the following domains: engineering, electronics, naval architecture, software development (C++, Java, .NET), and cybersecurity• Able to speak at length with technical practitioners and translate technical jargon and requirements to non-technical team members, and vice versa• Networked with prospective clients and candidates at various events including AFCEA, Defense Contractors Coffee Club, and trade oriented conferences• Generated numerous leads of prospective electronics, engineering, and cybersecurity firms in support of the Business Development team• Participated in company strategy development regarding internal staffing requirements, and potential capture opportunities• Authored training documentation, position descriptions, client and program summaries, and blog articles

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

• Developed new member recruitment strategies• Mentored incoming and current members on topics including academic excellence, personal and organizational finance, interacting with University administration and city officials, house maintenance and repairs, and other related topics• Served as direct point-of-contact between the current members and the Chapter Advisor

Arlington, Va

SCOPE GROUP, Inc. is an SBA small business, government contractor, and full-service recruiting firm dedicated to providing customized staffing solutions for companies in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.We help our clients build high-caliber teams by providing qualified candidates for the federal services, technology, engineering, and energy industries. We are experts in identifying and placing engineering, IT, software, management, and executive professionals.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed and developed the internal email and social media strategy for the team• Created and maintained Facebook and Twitter accounts to enhance the team’s outreach to current and prospective members, alumni, local businesses, and the publicPotomac Athletic Club Rugby Team (or PAC for short) was the premier Division 1 Men's Club in DC. As a former founding member of the Super League in the US, PAC Rugby is an organization that strives for excellence in all that it does.Founded in 1988, PAC Rugby has been a premier D1 Men's team centered in our nation's capitol for a quarter of a century. In 1997, PAC became a founding member of the US Super League, a premier division of 14 teams set above the normal D1 bracket. After competing fiercely for 14 years, PAC withdrew from the Super League and rejoined the D1 Men's Bracket. http://bit.ly/18A7M6AIn August 2014, PAC Rugby and the Maryland Exiles merged to form the preeminent D1 club in the Capital region, the Potomac Exiles.

Juris Doctor, 3.48

Activities and Societies: Charleston Law Review, Associate Editor-in-Chief; Moot Court Board, Associate Justice for Business Affairs James.

B.A., Religious Studies; Foreign Affairs

Activities and Societies: Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity, UVA Men's Rugby Team, University Judiciary Committee