I help in-house departments and law firms manage the complex and often unanticipated demands of legal workloads while cutting costs. I partner with my clients to deliver high quality attorneys for substantive staffing gaps and special projects. My specialty is using my substantial legal practice background to understand my clients' specific needs (including subjective factors that can't be distilled down to bullet points) and deliver the right solutions supported by the absolute best match for… Show more I help in-house departments and law firms manage the complex and often unanticipated demands of legal workloads while cutting costs. I partner with my clients to deliver high quality attorneys for substantive staffing gaps and special projects. My specialty is using my substantial legal practice background to understand my clients' specific needs (including subjective factors that can't be distilled down to bullet points) and deliver the right solutions supported by the absolute best match for talent. Show less

Major, Lindsey & Africa's Interim Legal Talent group is designed to assist law firms and corporations in managing the complex and often unanticipated demands of legal workloads without adding permanent resources. We partner with our clients by delivering high quality substantive attorneys for special projects and staff augmentation. What sets us apart is our process to understand our customer's specific needs and deliver the right solutions supported by the absolute best match of… Show more Major, Lindsey & Africa's Interim Legal Talent group is designed to assist law firms and corporations in managing the complex and often unanticipated demands of legal workloads without adding permanent resources. We partner with our clients by delivering high quality substantive attorneys for special projects and staff augmentation. What sets us apart is our process to understand our customer's specific needs and deliver the right solutions supported by the absolute best match of talent.• Development and management of client accounts including introduction of recruiting services to clients, maintaining database of client intel, qualifying roles and requisitions from clients, negotiating search terms and agreements with clients, presenting candidates to clients, soliciting feedback and serving as liaison between sourcing team and hiring managers. • Management of a team of recruiters tasked with filling roles including review and feedback of pipelined candidates, providing hiring manager feedback, and setting timing expectations for filling client roles and requisitions, developing and sharing metrics of fill success, providing mentorship regarding candidate pipelines and relevant legal practice areas. • Diversity and Inclusion counsel responsibilities including developing corporate social responsibility programs, writing relevant published articles about the intersectionality of legal recruiting and diversity, and planning corporate wide service events. • Leading and organizing business development cohort meetings to create opportunities for cross pollination of intel amongst client management peers throughout the country. Show less

• Draft and negotiate commercial, technology licensing, and technology development contracts between Apple and hardware products suppliers. Draft and negotiate letter agreements, settlement agreements, and confidentiality agreements between Apple and hardware products suppliers. Develop deal negotiations with strategic partners within Apple (Global Supply Managers, Engineering Project Managers, Engineering Directors, finance teams) and advise on legal risks and benefits.• Update strategic… Show more • Draft and negotiate commercial, technology licensing, and technology development contracts between Apple and hardware products suppliers. Draft and negotiate letter agreements, settlement agreements, and confidentiality agreements between Apple and hardware products suppliers. Develop deal negotiations with strategic partners within Apple (Global Supply Managers, Engineering Project Managers, Engineering Directors, finance teams) and advise on legal risks and benefits.• Update strategic partners on legal issues through regular keynote presentations, train strategic partners on common commercial agreements, share legal best practices to engineering teams, and present on key issues to the legal department. Show less

• Conducted patent-mining sessions focused on developing broad and defensive patent portfolios for direct-to-consumer startups. Draft technology licensing agreements.• Managed patent litigation cases including discovery motions, document productions, expert reports, correspondence with opposing counsel, and coordination of assignments to junior attorneys. Litigation focused on the technologies of silicon doped lithium-ion batteries and smart cooking devices interfaced with IoT aggregators.

Lateraled with partner from Orrick• Managed trade secrets and breach of contract litigation cases and drafted writ of certiorari brief on behalf of Indian Institute of Technology.• Patent portfolio diligence and risk analysis for potential acquisition targets and technology cross-license agreements.• Pro Bono work on discovery and settlement negotiations on trial team for pro bono Felony Criminal Defense case.

• Prepared pre-trial (pleadings, motions practice, expert depositions, Daubert motions) and trial (cross-examinations and opening and closing statements) work in support of trademark litigation.• Drafted Inter Partes Review petitions and Ex Parte Reexamination requests regarding complex GPU hardware litigation.• First-chaired asylum merits hearing including drafting pre-hearing brief, delivering opening and closing statements, conducting fact witness direct and redirects and conducting… Show more • Prepared pre-trial (pleadings, motions practice, expert depositions, Daubert motions) and trial (cross-examinations and opening and closing statements) work in support of trademark litigation.• Drafted Inter Partes Review petitions and Ex Parte Reexamination requests regarding complex GPU hardware litigation.• First-chaired asylum merits hearing including drafting pre-hearing brief, delivering opening and closing statements, conducting fact witness direct and redirects and conducting expert witness direct. Show less

• Part-time patent prosecution while attending law school; earned summer associateship for 1L summer.• Drafted patents and office action responses including proposed amendments and full office action responses.

IP Summer Associate - Prosecuting Patents, Responding to Office Actions, Patentability Analysis, Infringement Analysis.

IP Litigation Summer Associate- Patent analysis, Legal research for motions such as change of forum and response to interrogatories, Memo drafting for various IP litigation related topics and research for client development.

• Performed schematic reading, hardware testing, schematic building, signal testing, surface soldering, through hole soldering, and solution designs for sensor aggregation devices.