• Advise and counsel Fortune 500 companies, large nonprofit organizations, and public officials regarding all aspects of political, election, government ethics and campaign finance law, including but not limited to the Federal Election Campaign Act, Lobbying Disclosure Act, California’s Political Reform Act, and applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.• Assist large organizational clients with creation and implementation of political law compliance programs, including lobbying registration, campaign finance compliance, and rules governing conflicts of interest. • Represent clients before the Federal Election Commission, California Fair Political Practices Commission, and local ethics commissions.• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts, memoranda of understanding, and vendor agreements; draft research memoranda and advocacy letters; review and revise public communications, including press releases; analyze legislative policy proposals and administrative regulations.• Serve as treasurer and assistant treasurer of political action committees at federal, state, and local levels; serve as corporate secretary and legal counsel for nonprofit organizational clients.

Reviewed policy and legislative proposals; provided feedback and recommendations to committee members.

• Represented and advised public agencies, businesses, and private individuals at all stages of civil litigation.• Drafted briefs, pleadings, pretrial motions, research memoranda, discovery requests and responses; performed document review, managed document production, and made court appearances.• Regularly advised and counseled public officials on how to comply with the Brown Act, Political Reform Act, and conflicts of interest laws.

• Oversaw the Ethics Commission’s policy and legislative program; made legislative recommendations to improve the City’s lobbying and campaign finance laws; presented staff proposals at public hearings.• Analyzed City, state, and federal law and legislation affecting the Ethics Commission; advised the Executive Director of constitutional and statutory issues; drafted memoranda and ordinance language.• Reviewed the recusals of City commissioners for conflicts of interests; led staff studies and conducted outreach to the public and regulated community. • Successfully advocated for and secured unanimous passage of Ethics Commission's Audit Policy.

Research Attorney (Resource Policy & Planning)• Successfully advocated for the approval of renewable power purchase agreements before the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”) by drafting advice letters, briefs, and petitions to the Commission’s Energy Division and administrative law judges; submitted public policy comments on SCE’s behalf• Counseled and advised corporate client groups on how to comply with state regulatory law and policy (including how to protect market sensitive information) by researching and analyzing CPUC decisions, resolutions, recently enacted statutes, and applicable case law. • Managed and conducted compliance for SCE's Green Tariff Shared Renewables ProgramLaw Clerk (Commercial Litigation)• Formulated litigation strategy and propounded written discovery for the prosecution and defense of actions for enforcement of easement rights and contract rights with both commercial and governmental entities.• Drafted complaints, demurrers, motions to strike, reply briefs, research memoranda and advocacy letters to opposing counsel as well as a mediation brief that resulted in a favorable settlement for SCE.• Drafted a brief that resulted in a sustained demurrer and disposed of an action brought by a subcontractor for a mechanic’s lien against SCE for $119,000.

• Drafted bench memoranda, pre-trial memoranda, and case summaries, including an order to show cause for lack of subject matter jurisdiction concerning a notice of removal that is featured on Westlaw.• Conducted legal research and drafted research memoranda pertaining to matters both criminal and civil, including evidentiary issues, procedural issues, and substantive case law. •Attended and observed pre-trial conferences, motion hearings, and trials.

•Evaluated mortgage restitution claims and drafted memoranda advising Chief Assistant Attorney General on the appropriate amount of economic relief merited by each claim from an $18.6 million settlement fund.•Drafted interrogatories for state civil investigations and evaluated merit of state civil rights claims.

• Successfully opened, managed, maintained, staffed and oversaw the OFA-OH campaign office in Kent, OH.• Oversaw voter contact and volunteer recruitment operations in Portage County; organized and coordinated local campaign events.• Built relationships with public officials, community leaders and local activists.

• Facilitated and coordinated mediation services for the public at the DRC and local courts by working with the general public, judges, attorneys, and volunteers. • Managed the DRC's Bilingual Initiative by working with volunteers and professional organizations to recruit and train bilingual professionals to expand the DRC's Spanish language mediation services.