Member, Non-Dues Revenue Committee (Bar Year 2013-3014)● 16 member committee responsible for cultivating and maintaining sponsor relationships, and developing new revenue streams, to financially support Section services to members, the profession, and the community.__________________________________________Member, Council (Bar Year 2010-2013)● 36 member governing body of the Section, responsible for setting policy, approving budget, and considering proposals from Section… Show more Member, Non-Dues Revenue Committee (Bar Year 2013-3014)● 16 member committee responsible for cultivating and maintaining sponsor relationships, and developing new revenue streams, to financially support Section services to members, the profession, and the community.__________________________________________Member, Council (Bar Year 2010-2013)● 36 member governing body of the Section, responsible for setting policy, approving budget, and considering proposals from Section Committee Chairs, other ABA entities, and outside groups. __________________________________________Member, Advisory Committee (Bar Year 2010)● Five member committee responsible for recommending candidates for open Executive Officer and Council positions.__________________________________________Co-Director, Division IV – Procedure (Bar Year 2009-2010)● Responsible for overseeing and supporting direct reporting Committees, incl., among others, Class Actions and Derivative Suits, Expert Witnesses, Pretrial Practice and Discovery, Trial Evidence, and Trial Practice.__________________________________________Co-Vice Chair, Committee on Corporate Counsel (Bar Year 2009-2010)● Committee focuses on solutions to substantive and procedural corporate practice issues, and on methods of controlling the cost of litigation, through dialogue between its inside and outside counsel membership.__________________________________________Co-Chair, Minority Trial Lawyer (Bar Year 2005-2008)● Committee serves as a resource for litigation and business development strategies, and a network for the sharing of experiences and referrals, for minority litigators. Show less

Counsel to Customer Development (Sales) regarding antitrust and competition, contract negotiation, business objectives and customer relations, and related litigation.● Recipient of “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Award in recognition of extraordinary effort and achievement related to in-house transition of “legacy” imported premium chocolates, incl. Toblerone, Cote d’Or, and Milka, from third-party importation and distribution.

● Senior associate on team representing Capital One in dispute regarding intellectual property of a former joint venture. Developed legal arguments on capacity to sue and judicial estoppel related to plaintiff misrepresentations that led to settlement, on eve of summary judgment, of a billion dollar claim for little more than plaintiff’s litigation costs.● Managed trial advocacy training, instructing summer associates in mock depositions, motions hearing, and trial based on NITA materials.

● Deputy associate on trial team representing Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (B&W) in U.S. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., the Department of Justice’s suit against "Big Tobacco." After nine month trial, drafted section of proposed findings of fact related to B&W efforts to develop a less hazardous cigarette, fully adopted by U.S. District Court in its opinion.● Senior associate on team representing Auto Alliance in challenge to state greenhouse gas emission regulations potentially… Show more ● Deputy associate on trial team representing Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (B&W) in U.S. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., the Department of Justice’s suit against "Big Tobacco." After nine month trial, drafted section of proposed findings of fact related to B&W efforts to develop a less hazardous cigarette, fully adopted by U.S. District Court in its opinion.● Senior associate on team representing Auto Alliance in challenge to state greenhouse gas emission regulations potentially replacing a single, manageable national fuel economy schedule with several, disparate state schedules. (In May 2009, the White House, states, and Auto Alliance reached a compromise on new, national standards.)● Senior associate on team representing NL Indus. in Milwaukee suit seeking $100 million for government abatement of lead paint in private rental housing in lieu of landlord abatement. ● Senior associate representing Fortune 100 client in false claims investigation alleging over-billing of DC government. Developed legal arguments that led to DC’s rare withdrawal of administrative subpoena, and then prosecuted freedom of information complaint resulting in production of records undermining DC allegations and award of attorneys’ fees to client.● Senior associate on team representing Verizon and MCI in merger regulatory proceedings. ● Lead attorney for American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Comm. in freedom of information complaint challenging Homeland Security's withholding of nationality statistics of persons detained during 2004 “October Plan” surveillance and questioning. (After departure to Paul Hastings, Kirkland and Yale Law Nat’l Litig. Project, reached a settlement with Homeland Security for release of hundreds of records evidencing racial and religious profiling.)(before Kirkland & Ellis, and after the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, worked as a litigation associate for a regional Pennsylvania/New Jersey firm) Show less

State prosecutor responsible for managing docket of 30 to 40 criminal cases each day.● Conducted hundreds of criminal bench trials, motion hearings, and preliminary hearings (as it happens, several trials before a judge now a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and reporting to an assistant unit chief now the District Attorney of Philadelphia).