Yezbak Law Offices PLLC represents employees in disputes against their employers. The firm primarily litigates federal and state wage-and-hour and discrimination claims.

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My position includes the following responsibilities: reviewing charge files and recommending the initiation of litigation; filing petitions for compliance with administrative subpoenas; seeking temporary injunctive relief; filing motions to obtain compliance with court orders, decrees, and pre-suit settlement agreements; prosecuting cases to ensure consistency with EEOC litigation policies and judicial precedents; conducting discovery for litigation in federal court; preparing and presenting motions, responses and oral arguments in federal court; preparing pretrial and post-trial briefs and materials; conducting all facets of trials in federal courts; and providing formal and informal legal advice and memoranda to agency personnel.

My practice was devoted to litigating employment disputes and ERISA matters on behalf of employers, plan fiduciaries, and third-party administrators throughout the United States. Our firm is nationally recognized for its expertise in handling claims recovery and ERISA matters.

I actively assisted the judge with adjudicating cases at all stages of federal civil litigation by utilizing my excellent legal research and writing skills.My primary responsibilities included participating in substantive discussions of legal issues; observing oral arguments; researching and composing bench memoranda; and drafting opinions and orders.

I actively assisted the judge with deciding and disposing of cases at all stages of federal appellate litigation by utilizing my excellent legal research and writing skills.My primary responsibilities included researching and composing bench memoranda; attending oral arguments; drafting opinions and orders; evaluating writing from other chambers and the Staff Attorney; making recommendations on motions, petitions for panel rehearing, and petitions rehearing en banc; and supervising law student externs.

I researched and composed a draft opinion; evaluated Rule 34 orders from the Staff Attorney; made recommendations for or against polls on petitions for rehearing en banc; and participated in post-oral argument discussions with the judge.Position dates were actually May to August 2012 as a for-credit extern and January to April 2013 as a volunteer intern.

Jointly authored a law review article on an issue of Arkansas state criminal procedure. Authorship responsibilities included: research, organization, writing, editing, citation creation, and citation checking. The Arkansas Law Review selected the piece for publication in November 2013.John N. Fogleman & N. Chase Teeples, The Forgotten Rule: Rule 16.2(e) of the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure, 66 Ark. L. Rev. 661 (2014).

Read large quantities of submissions and selected potential articles for publication; communicated offers to authors; primary editing responsibility for four articles; created and graded a portion of the Bluebook exam for Law Review write-on competition.

This position included a half-tuition scholarship. Researched all law student practice rules nationally and participated in drafting a student practice local rule for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

Researched and composed dispositive motions and memoranda in state and federal civil rights cases; answered and created interrogatories and requests for production; drafted legal opinions for organs of the City government.

Called alumni to solicit donations for the University Annual Fund.