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Oak Brook, Illinois, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Facilitate all ongoing claims and litigations including dictating strategy, drafting and reviewing all foreign and domestic pleadings for the firm, and any needed legal research.
• Led the negotiating and arranging of all elements of insurance policies and coverages for the firm.
• Negotiate and manage the relationships related to lending and financing agreements as an executive in the business strategy team including two significant revolvers to support business growth.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Led the successful negotiations of licensing agreements and 100+ other types of contracts with multiple large well-known private and Fortune 500 public companies.
• Drafted more than 150 transactional vendor and supply agreements including terms and conditions, distribution, production/manufacturing, employment, direct hires, independent contractors, product brokers, and.
• Led the recovery of revenue owed to the company and extinguished debts valued at more than $300,000 in the first year of employment.

Chicago, IL, US

• Executed end-to-end legal service through negotiations for more than 150 complex commercial contracts with customers and vendors resulting in a higher than 90% customer retention rate.
• Managed multiple concurring lawsuits with outside counsel to ensure a strong set of case tactics, strategies, and pleadings, while representing the company in court resulting in over 75 positive outcomes of lawsuits.
• Launched three company-wide projects including terms that apply to all transactions, expanding operations into foreign nations, and drafted contracts in compliance with foreign laws.
• Reviewed, revised, and negotiated hundreds of complex commercial agreements relating to transportation, warehousing, IT, and others.
• Led the litigation of cases without assistance on behalf of the company involving cargo loss and damage, property damage, and collections matters resulting in over $500K recovered.
• Managed the cross-functional litigation with counsel appointed by the company’s insurer, which included dictating the strategy and direction of the lawsuit.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Represented more than 100 clients in civil court regarding contractual and other disputes and drafted and negotiated settlement agreements.
• Established a repeatable process for writing pleadings, and motions, and known for responding to discovery timely as well as appeared in Federal and State Courts to defend clients.
• Led the legal research and legal memorandum creation for 100+ cases focused on breach of contract, personal injury, and insurance coverages.
• Managed a high volume of cases and disposed of numerous lawsuits and breach of contract claims, collections, and personal injury through settlement, alternative dispute resolution, negotiation, and court order.
• Key resource of the firm leveraged in depositions, trials, and drafts of pleadings, motions, discovery, demands, and coverage opinions based on terms of contracts.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Provided comprehensive client service in over 150 cases as a pro bono attorney for people with disabilities from initial consultation through final resolution.
• Conducted negotiations and mediated civil rights cases with the city of Chicago, federal government agencies, and private housing providers with a 90% success rate for clients.
• Led communications and negotiated with opposing counsel while drafting pleadings, arguing in court, and ensuring settlements were fair for the clients.

Saint Louis, MO, US

• Researched and authored over 25 memorandums for St. Louis University School of Law’s head Professor of Employment Law and International Law, Marcia McCormick, on European countries' constitutions and judicial systems.
• Created the syllabus for Employment Law and International Law taught at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania which is a sister school of St. Louis University School of Law.
• Led extensive research in the Swedish language, and the Swedish tax code while writing more than five additional sections for St. Louis University School of Law Professor Henry Ordower’s article: "Schedularity in U.S..

Frankfurt Am Main, DE

• Drafted over 15 additional sections and updated sections of FPS Rechtsandwälte & Notare handbook regarding Germany Intellectual Property laws that was distributed to all current and prospective clients.
• Executed more than 50 memoranda regarding European and United States border seizure proceedings in intellectual property matters focused on international sales agreements.

East St. Louis, Illinois, US

• Judicial Extern for United States Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Williams, East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.A.
• Conducted research and delivered opinion and memorandum documents for civil lawsuits focused on prisoner complaints and medical malpractice that Judge Stephen C. Williams leveraged.

Master Of Laws (Llm), International Business And Commercial Law

Juris Doctor (J.D.), International And Comparative Law & Business Transaction Law Certificate

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), (Triple Major) History, Political Science & Scandinavian Language And Culture (Imp)