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Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

• Manage and execute various litigation related matters with a focus on federal and state environmental enforcement litigation and stockholder rights litigation.
• Initiate, manage and coordinate the firm’s Clean Water Act enforcement practice, including drafting of all complaints, motion practice, and settlement documents.
• Effectively coordinate with various co-counsel in large multi-party litigations.
• Draft various pleadings and motion practice documents in federal and state courts.
• Negotiate various settlements in environmental litigation matters resulting in bringing dozens of industrial sites into compliance.
• Represent clients in state and federal court proceedings, and in arbitrations and mediations.

West Chester, PA

• Counseled clients seeking advice on investment issues in real estate property and various types of trusts
• Drafted a wide array of transactional documents including agreements for property sale, articles of incorporation, LLC articles of organization, and various other business organization creation documents.
• Obtained a working knowledge of various real estate, bankruptcy, and tax issues, including landlord/tenant matters, upset/judicial sale matters, zoning issues, and property acquisition issues.
• Experience with various levels of litigation including Magisterial District Court Judges, Bench Trials, Jury Trials as well as alternative dispute resolution proceedings such as arbitration.
• Worked directly with clients ensuring that they received effective legal representation and that they understood the issues in their case.

City Hall, Philadelphia

• Aided supervising Court Clerks and Judges in deciding upon and processing various motions and orders.
• Wrote opinions on a wide variety of matter pertaining to complex litigation, mass torts, and class action lawsuits.
• Effectively multi-tasked time and resources to achieve the highest possible turnout in a court system that consistently experiences some of the highest docket counts in the nation.
• Obtained Pennsylvania mass tort knowledge, as well as knowledge of other states’ mass tort laws, in order to better process work in a court system that saw litigants from every state of the union.

Montgomery County Courthouse, Norristown, PA

• Aided Assistant District Attorneys’ by drafting legal documents, motions, memoranda, and requests for court proceedings.
• Effectively researched pertinent legal issues to aid in the prosecution of several complicated cases, including homicides, economic crimes, and other major crimes.
• Gained an effective working knowledge of how a large-scale legal office operates.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Activities and Societies: Member, International Law Society; Member, Corporate Law Society, Deirdre L. Bailey Leadership Scholarship

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government; History, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Founding Member, Sonoma State Pre-Law Society; Delegate, Model United Nations Conference