Robert Goodwin Email and Phone Number

Associate Attorney for a Civl Rights/Employment Law Firm in Denver.• Research complex legal issues pertaining to employment discrimination/retaliation, unequal pay, breach of contract, civil procedure, and discovery disputes. • Draft demand letters, discrimination/retaliation charges, rebuttals, mediation statements, complaints, protective/scheduling orders, discovery requests/responses, and legal sections in MTD/MSJ responses.• Prepare partners for litigation by interviewing witnesses, drafting affidavits, obtaining documents from clients, and reviewing discovery in preparation for depositions. • Settle cases with opposing counsel informally as well as formally through mediation. Played a large role in settling a highly compensated employee case for $175,000.• Communicate regularly with clients to provide updates, obtain information, and manage expectations.

Law Clerk for three judges writing draft orders and doing research in criminal law and civil law.

• Representing plaintiffs in wage theft and state personnel board disciplinary cases. • Drafting demand letters, discovery requests, and motions. • Successfully negotiated settlement with opposing counsel to pay my client’s unpaid wages.

• Researched legal issues in employment law, landlord/tenant law, and insurance law. • Drafted a memorandum on the admissibility of statistical evidence in systemic disparate-treatment cases.• Drafted various pleadings including a complaint and a response to a motion to dismiss.

• Researched legal issues in the areas of civil rights law, employment law, and criminal law. • Constructed arguments for a statutory interpretation issue in a brief submitted to the Colorado Supreme Court. • Drafted various pleadings including a complaint and a motion to waive arbitration.

• Drafted memorandum recommending whether to grant or deny petitions for certiorari.• Drafted memorandum recommending whether to affirm or deny cases before the Court for oral argument and assist law clerks with other general preparation for oral arguments. • Researched appellate-level legal issues in the areas of criminal law, contract law, securities fraud, and constitutional law.

• Drafted motions, affidavits, and letters for family, probate, civil, traffic, and bankruptcy law cases.• Handled conference meetings with clients and performed client intake. • Maintained office case files, scheduled appointments, and wrote email correspondence.

Assisted paralegals in copying documents, answering potential client phone calls, abstracting from depositions, answering interrogatories, and indexing case files.

I tutored students in logical thought and philosophical analysis.