Represents and negotiates contracts for professional football players in the National Football League (NFL). Provides comprehensive guidance and support to clients throughout their careers inclusive of contract negotiations, endorsement deals, legal counsel, and post-career planning. Develops personalized strategies to maximize client’s earning potential and long-term success in the NFL. Maintains strong relationships with team executives, scouts, and other industry professionals to stay informed on league scouting trends and potential opportunities. Advocates for client’s interests in contract disputes, grievances, and other legal matters both personal and professional.

Represents clients in family law matters including child support, child custody, divorce, and protective orders through trial. Runs child support guidelines in accordance with Maryland state law. Conducts legal research using WestLaw and MDFastCase. Drafts family law pleadings such as memorandums, motions, petitions, complaints, pre-nuptial/post-nuptial agreements, marital separation agreements, wills, deeds, etc. Files pleadings on MDEC. Prepares guardianship petitions and sees guardianship matters through trial. Prepares clients for trial proceedings. Negotiates settlements and develops litigation strategies. Maintains regular communication with clients. Collaborates with senior associates, paralegals, and support staff to ensure effective case management.

Files and maintains company trademarks with the USPTO, explains legal agreements to company executives, drafts and reviews licensing agreements, drafts talent agreements, reviewing commercial agreements, prepares form agreements, reviews and negotiates all contracts prior to engagement, reviews

Filed and maintained company trademarks with the USPTO, explained legal agreements to company executives, reviewed marketing and talent partnership proposals and contracts.

Completes client intake, drafts discovery and responds to discovery from opposing counsel. Performs legal research. Drafts motions, briefs, and memorandums. Prepares client correspondence. Counsels and represents clients in Courts of the law.

Identifies, collects, and produces electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a request for production, discovers relevant facts to lawsuits assigned, identifies evidence, witnesses, and privilege, and codes all information according to protocol.

Responsible for football-related activations, partnerships, and marketing.

Draft client letters, file trademarks with USPTO, revive trademarks, draft music agreements to music publishers seeking rights to compositions and lyrics, draft karaoke licensing agreements, exclusionary agreements, and artist management agreements.

Researched Florida statutes, reviewed case files, reviewed motions, complaints and exhibits, performed legal research and provided opinions to the judge, drafted memorandums for review, drafted court orders.

Performed legal research on creating non-profit companies, including international/national sports federations. Prepared demand letters, reviewed conflict of interest policies. Reviewed athlete endorsement and employment contracts.

-Drafts Notices of Production, Subpoena Duces Tecums, Certificates of Non- Objection, and Responses to requests for copies for attorneys.- Files documents with the circuit civil court e-filing system.-Corresponds with medical, insurance, pharmaceutical, employment, and educational providers to secure records requested.-Corresponds with auto insurance claims professionals regarding information on cases settling.-Creates medical notebooks to send to medical experts for review.-Calculates totals on medical bills to create and/or update medical bills summaries from medical providers, auto insurance providers, and health insurance providers.-Drafts authorizations to send to out of state entities in order to obtain records.-Corresponds with the opposing attorney’s office regarding authorizations and records production.-Processes invoices from providers and drafts bill requests.-Analyzes records responses from providers to ensure that responses comply with the Subpoena Decus Tecum sent.-Corresponds with processors to have subpoenas delivered in a timely fashion.-Corresponds with courier services to set up retrieval times and delivery time for medical notebooks.

-Assists in preparation for court appearances by reviewing documents of Discovery (RPDs, RFAs, Depositions, and Interrogatories) and organizes exhibits within the documents.- Files, organizes, and prepares client folders .- Handles potential client intake for the firms as well as client correspondence.- Requests and ensures reception of documents from opposing counsel, clients, courts, doctors, and/or medical experts.- Files documentation at courthouses.- Researches advertising options and curates firm ads.- Performs legal research.- Cross check attorney calendars and schedules office meetings, depositions, etc.- Conducts in office client meetings.- Schedules in office and telephone conferences between attorneys and clients, witnesses, and/or the opposing counsel.- Maintains client database.- Assists in ensuring clients and attorneys complete necessary legal forms.- Retrieves and records information for interrogatories from clients and prepares documentation final drafts. - Observes client/attorney in office meetings as well as court litigation.- Works closely with clients to ensure all needs are met regarding their cases.

-Assists in preparation for court appearances by reviewing documents of Discovery (RPDs, RFAs, Depositions, and Interrogatories) and organizes exhibits within the documents.- Files, organizes, and prepares client folders .- Handles potential client intake for the firms as well as client correspondence.- Requests and ensures reception of documents from opposing counsel, clients, courts, doctors, and/or medical experts.- Files documentation at courthouses.- Researches advertising options and curates firm ads.- Performs legal research.- Cross check attorney calendars and schedules office meetings, depositions, etc.- Conducts in office client meetings.- Schedules in office and telephone conferences between attorneys and clients, witnesses, and/or the opposing counsel.- Maintains client database.- Assists in ensuring clients and attorneys complete necessary legal forms.- Retrieves and records information for interrogatories from clients and prepares documentation final drafts. - Observes client/attorney in office meetings as well as court litigation.- Works closely with clients to ensure all needs are met regarding their cases.

Interned with this agency for the Summer months of 2012 as well as 2013.-Researched extensive statistics, general information, and background information on potential clients.-Obtained valuable experience ranking players in order of importance to our agency. -Gathered information on special talents and skill sets that correlate with what the company is looking for this recruiting season.-Created draft prospects lists throughout the internship according to prospect’s interactions and engagements with the agency.-Pioneered relationships with potential clientele by using social networking to initiate and maintain contact.-Sent emails and placed phone calls to college athletes, college coaches, as well as player personnel, scouts, and coaches associated with NFL teams. a. Attended the NFL combine and shadowed the lead agent in her activities and meetings with a few players as well as fellow agents and player personnel. (February 2013, February 2014, February 2016, February 2016)

-Establish and draft copy for the Twitter account.-Assist in the operation of the Facebook page.-Handles print marketing.-Establishes relationships with clientele.-Preparing copy for and placing advertisements in local Bar Association publications.-Assists in building additional websites for the firm.-Handling client concerns as a problem-solver on a one-to-one level.-Ensures expeditious responses to clients via email and telephone calls.-Reviewing through Discovery documents (RPDs, RFAs, Depositions, Interrogatories)-Filing and organizing client files/documents.-Sitting in on trials/court appearance with the firm's founder and associates.-Sitting in on client meetings at the office.