My present practice focuses on consumer fraud, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and the Americans with Disability Act, as well as some labor law. This has involved considerable motion practice, which has given me the invaluable learning opportunity of honing my craft against highly skilled attorneys at preeminent national law firms representing major corporate defendants (such as Apple and Samsung), often defeating their motions to dismiss notwithstanding that I was on my own up against teams of lawyers able to draw on the superior resources of a big firm. I’ve also done some appellate work in the Second and Ninth Circuits. My brief prevailed in the Second Circuit’s recent Duran v. La Boom Disco decision, which one major law firm highlighted as “interrupt[ing] the emerging consensus around the definition of ‘autodialer’ in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.” Prior to my present position, I worked at a firm that focused on the emerging field of bitcoin law, developing innovative theories to deal with the novel problems presented by bitcoin.Academia was my first career track. I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University and taught the subject at a number of colleges while authoring several peer-reviewed publications, including a book, Two Orientations Toward Human Nature, published by Routledge. Indeed, I remained at Stanford after law school on an academic fellowship to pursue research in constitutional law. While academia ultimately proved to be too cloistered for my taste, this training has left me with powers of logical persuasion that have been readily transferable to the legal context. Temperamentally analytic with a passion for nuance, ambiguity, and complexity, I have a background that positions me to tackle thorny legal problems without obvious solutions.
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