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Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Evaluate proposed or recommended legal strategies to identify significant underlying legal issues, analyze the legal adequacy of these legal positions, and determine possible consequences of actions on current Agency and Administration policy. • Oversee administrative matters of the Office of General Counsel including approval/disapproval of employee leave, payroll, and travel. Establish deadlines, and ensure they are met. Recommend hiring, disciplinary action, and other personnel actions.• Edit letters, opinions, decisions, regulations, and other documents for signature of the General Counsel or Chair of the National Indian Gaming Commission. • Recommend approval or alternatives to the General Counsel, and, when delegated, exercises final authority when in an Acting capacity.• Review and analyze proposed opinions, rules, regulations, and decisions that may be considered controversial or precedent setting.• Staff the Chair/Commission at conferences/speaking engagements and sit on panels.• Attend and participate in Federal, state, and tribal meetings with various Agency divisions and the Commission.• Liaise with the Department of Justice regarding potential or active litigation in which the positions and actions of the Agency are challenged.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Review and recommend the approval or disapproval of tribal gaming ordinances and management contracts. Review transactional documents submitted with management contracts, such as loan agreements, security agreements, promissory notes, and consulting agreements, to determine their compliance with federal law. Develop recommendations to the Associate General Counsels, the General Counsel, the Chair and to the Commission. Deliver advice in the form of oral opinion and written memoranda, draft regulations and procedures, draft letters in response to inquiries from outside agency, including offices on congressional, state, and tribal officials, and verbal presentations to groups of varying sizes.

Phoenix, Arizona

Practice area: Tribal Governance and Constitutional Reform. Assist tribal governments with constitutional revisions and/or amendments.Draft Resolutions and legislation addressing various governance matters including but not limited to (election laws/amendments, enrollment policy, due process, recall, voter registration). Draft Council Procedures and legislative orders. Advise on budgetary processes and communications.

Madison, Wi

Conducted client intake. Drafted briefs and comments. Edited CAFO toolkit. Attended weekly environmental law seminars regarding citizen suits, the Clean Water Act, environmental justice, lobbying, and building grassroots coalitions.

Washington, D.C.

Clerked in the Office of International & Tribal Affairs (OITA). Engaged in policy analysis and strategic planning regarding Executive Order 13175 (Tribal Consultation). EPA Seminar Panelist - Achieving Environmental Protection with Our Sovereign Nation Partners in Native American Tribes (broadcast nationally via webinar and CLE accredited). Coordinated a Native American Bar Association (NABA) luncheon at the EPA American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO).

Madison, Wi

Milwaukee, Wi

Performed legal research, drafted briefs and memos in the areas of excessive force,foreign service of process, apportionment of negligence, and subrogation. Attended depositions, worker's compensation hearings, and scheduling conferences.

Worked at the direction of the litigation paralegal manager and several experienced attorneys at the firm. Collected and organized research for attorney use, including reports, opinions and case law. Supported in the preparation of pleadings, including complaints, answers, affidavits, motions, and petitions. Cite checked briefs utilizing Westlaw and Lexis Nexis applications. Facilitated the gathering and organization of documentation for use as exhibits either in depositions, or trial as well as maintaining control thereafter. Maintained and updated privilege logs. Attended trial as requested.

New York, Ny

Prepared visa petitions for temporary non-immigrant classifications, including a review of the foreign national’s qualifications and employment history abroad. Drafted detailed support letters for petition applications setting forth employment history and duties to be performed by the beneficiary in the United States. Submitted final petitions to the regional service center of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science