· Ardently defended employers and insurance companies with an eye towards cost-effective claim resolution.· Presented CLE seminars that incorporated simplified and actionable explanations of complex and thorny legal issues.· Collaborated with clients and set goals, identified issues, and formulated agreed plans of action.· Won two unqualified trial victories which defeated claims with over $150,000.00 of exposure.· Obtained a $176,000.00 award reimbursing years of benefit payments made to an allegedly injured worker.

· Handled all aspects of workers’ compensation claim defense from inception through to trial, arbitration, and appeal.· Conducted trainings at clients’ offices that improved their handling of litigated claims by equipping adjusters with practice insights and analytical tools.· Armed clients with crucial claim evaluation information including analysis and recommendations regarding exposure and reserves, litigation costs, and settlement value.· Triumphed over four medical providers in a single trial that disallowed lien claims for over $40,000.00 of expenses.

· Represented workers’ compensation defendants’ interests including at conferences and trial.· Negotiated and resolved liens both in and out of court by settlement or voluntary withdrawal.· Planned, drafted requests for, and analyzed discovery including payroll and Social Security earnings records.

• Reviewed and reported on terms of proposals, requests for proposals, and commercial contracts for company providing technology solutions such as programming, network infrastructure, cloud-computing and related services to corporate clients.• Prepared legal memoranda for submission to outside counsel regarding California trade secret and unfair competition law. • Drafted a comprehensive compliance memorandum on Canadian privacy law.

• Collaborated closely with Assistant United States Attorneys in both prosecution and defense of civil suits.• Drafted deposition outlines for use in civil discovery, including the creation of a case-history time-line.• Prepared legal memoranda regarding issues of novel applicability to the office, including juvenile standing to sue and consent to search based on non-verbal communication.