Landlord Representation Practice Group. Sidney Washington is a member of Offit Kurman’s Landlord Representation practice group representing landlords and property managers in various residential and commercial real estate matters.

Proficient as a competent and effective attorney managing a caseload of approximately 60 active cases. Acted as second chair for felony jury trial. Argued pretrial motions. Reviews legal discovery and researches legal issues to draft motions to suppress, dismiss, and vacate. Attends arraignments, draft pleadings, negotiate pleas, reviews warrants and affidavits to determine probable cause, and argue motions for pretrial release/bond. Conducts numerous misdemeanor cases.

Law Clerk:Research and draft memoranda on board matters and other various legal healthcare matters, assist in reviewing and proofreading response letters and documents, prepare transactional documents.Litigation Paralegal: Managed approximately 14-17 major medical malpractice defense cases. Assisted associates and directors by reviewing and analyzing medical records, developing medical chronologies, researching and identifying expert witnesses to assist in developing defenses, preparing discovery responses, selecting and preparing trial exhibits, preparing closing and opening presentations, jury instructions, daily trial reports, researching case law on Lexis Advance and Westlaw, conducting potential juror research, and assisting in trial preps with clients, fact witnesses, and expert witnesses.

Completed research projects on corporate governance principles and practices and other various topics.

Provide legal services to low-income taxpayers in disputes with the IRS. Engage in interviewing, counseling, research, drafting, and negotiation with the IRS calendar and the disposition of the cases taken.

Responsible for researching and drafting memoranda, primarily on criminal trial issues for state and federal court.

Provide direct services, including abuse prevention orders and divorce and custody cases, to clients who have experienced domestic violence. Responsibilities included client interviewing, factual development, legal analysis, drafting of pleadings, discovery, motions, briefs, oral advocacy, and settlement negotiations.

Processed and organized spreadsheets from large mortgage banks to distribute to team and be inputted into office database. Worked closely with attorneys to create presale package for foreclosure. Created training manuals for new employees on systems and how to create a file for attorney to review. Assisted team members in producing errorless files.

Processed and organized spreadsheets from large mortgage banks. . Worked closely with attorneys to create presale package for foreclosure. Run bankruptcy and pacer checks. Assisted team members in producing errorless files.

Acted as legal assistant for single attorney. Assisted with case and trial preparation. Created excel spreadsheets for accounting purposes. Picked up and dropped off documents at court.

Created and edited formal security policies, and security documents. Helped plan first annual IT Security Training conference. Presented weekly presentations on numerous findings. Researched different IT security databases online and tour sites. Used word processing, spreadsheets, and other databases to create projects and analysis. Retrieved information from presentations or meeting notes,