▪ Manage New Business Department, ensuring daily operations for new business intake, conflicts identification and resolution, client engagement agreements, outside counsel guidelines, and lateral conflicts clearance align with process standards and guidelines. ▪ Conduct internal risk audits and develop strategies to address potential risk issues.▪ Draft written submissions for the professional liability insurance renewal application, quarterly claims reports, expense tracking, and pre-audit submissions in preparation for an annual onsite audit.▪ Maintain the firm’s risk guidelines and policies, ensuring up-to-date and accessible documentation.▪ Develop and/or coordinate risk presentations, increasing risk management awareness among attorneys and staff.▪ Conduct risk management orientation training for all new employees, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of risk protocols.▪ Collaborate with systems users and software developer to identify and test upgrades, continually improving system functionality and efficiency as part of the department's commitment to continuous improvement.▪ Manage departure processes for departing timekeepers, ensuring a seamless transfer of clients and firm property.

▪ Provide guidance to attorneys and firm personnel regarding any current or potential conflict of interest issues, including business, positional, subject matter and playbook conflicts.▪ Consult with partners to facilitate quick resolution of conflict issues and draft appropriate screening memoranda, engagement agreements and various waiver/disclosure documents to resolve conflict issues. ▪ Review and analyze outside counsel guidelines and non-standard engagement agreements to identify potential issues and assist with drafting exceptions as required.▪ Conduct independent corporate and legal research as necessary to identify and resolve conflicts.▪ Keep abreast of new developments, rules and/or court decisions governing conflicts of interest and professional responsibility issues.▪ Identify potential conflict issues to support the firm’s business developments efforts, as needed.

▪ Reviewed and analyzed conflict of interest reports and provided guidance to attorneys and firm personnel regarding any current or potential conflict of interest issues, including business, positional, subject matter and playbook conflicts.▪ Consulted with responsible partners to facilitate quick resolution of conflict issues and draft appropriate screening memoranda, engagement letters and various waiver/disclosure documents to resolve conflict issues. ▪ Reviewed and analyzed outside counsel guidelines and non-standard engagement letters to identify potential issues and assist with drafting exceptions as required.▪ Reviewed and revised new matter paperwork and drafted engagement letters to ensure compliance with firm policies and jurisdictional rules and regulations. ▪ Conducted independent corporate research as necessary to identify and resolve conflicts.▪ Worked closely with the Professional Responsibility Counsel/Conflicts Director, members of the firm’s Committee of Professional Responsibility, and the firm’s Deputy General Counsel to escalate and resolve any risk management issues.▪ Kept abreast of new developments, rules and/or court decisions governing conflicts of interest and professional responsibility issues.▪ Identified potential conflict issues to support the firm’s business developments efforts, as needed.

▪ Oversaw all risk management efforts for the firm including managing the firm’s business intake, conflicts, calendar and records departments.▪ Conducted research and analyzed conflict issues for all new firm clients, matters and lateral hires.▪ Conferred with attorneys and clients to resolve conflicts and obtain necessary waivers.▪ Drafted conflict waiver and disclosure letters.▪ Analyzed requests for new clients and proposed client engagement letters to ensure consistency and compliance with firm policies.▪ Identified risk management issues and developed strategies and firm policies to address concerns. ▪ Provided quality assurance through internal risk compliance audits and reviews.▪ Oversaw transition of clients and client files to/from the firm.▪ Managed a team of 13 direct reports.▪ Provided regular reports to the firm’s Executive Director and Executive Committee.

▪ Substantial experience in all aspects of civil litigation from case intake through final disposition at trial, including managing all aspects of discovery and motion practice.▪ Researched and composed legal memoranda to support motions; drafted pleadings, including complaints, answers, motions and discovery requests and responses.▪ Conducted depositions; attended case management conferences and discovery hearings. ▪ Highlights: Sat 2nd chair for a federal jury trial and two state court bench trials, presented two cases at arbitration, briefed successful arguments in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

▪ Drafted discovery requests, deposition notices, FOIA requests, and subpoenas for actions pending in state and federal courts; cite checked legal briefs and memoranda. ▪ Assisted with electronic document review and production for product liability actions involving pharmaceutical and asbestos defendants; prepared privilege logs. ▪ Assisted in trial preparation.▪ Highlights: Served on Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals, 2000; served as Publisher of The Forum, a bi-monthly newsletter publication which is distributed to the Philadelphia Association of Paralegal’s organization’s 500 members 2000 – 2001.