Sara Jo Dunstan Email & Phone Number

• Owner, operator, and sole employee of Texas limited liability company offering full-time, overnight, in-house petsitting services• Provides its services to clients preferring or requiring an in-home arrangement to other alternatives

Houston, Texas Area

• Take meeting minutes and maintain minutes book• Involvement in all shows: box office, technical assistance, costuming, acting, directing, musical directing, writing, and marketing• Wrote, directed, co-starred, and designed sound for a play to overwhelmingly positive reception

Houston, Texas Area

• Auditioning, memorization, research, and preparation for each project • Work closely with a wide variety of people under myriad circumstances • Utilize skills in verbal communication, dance, piano, voice, movement, and dialects • Organize rehearsals, production meetings, and performances• Supervise cast and crew

1919 W. Alabama St.

• Serve customers, take inventory, order office and other supplies, stock product, balance books • Coordinate with internet marketing firms • Negotiate advertising contracts • Maintain strong online presence • Organize and act as liaison to clients for events and fundraisers

Houston, Texas Area

5615 Kirby Dr. Ste. 900

• Defense Counsel, Primary – Litigation in the following fields: products liability; simple and complex commercial law; commercial vehicle accidents; construction defects; premises liability and inadequate security; workers compensation and non-subscriber; labor and employment; professional liability; and first- and third-party insurance• Defense Counsel, Secondary – Pre-litigation and litigation in the following fields: real property; probate; and credit card/commercial paper law• Issue quarterly reports to clients assessing factual, legal, and procedural case developments; liability and damages; early dispute resolution; and strategy from pre-litigation through trial• Interview witnesses; gather evidence; investigate claims; and identify material issues• Conduct depositions of fact and expert witnesses; prepare and present witnesses for deposition• Draft and respond to motions, pleadings, and other court filings• Attend court proceedings; prepare and present oral arguments• Draft and propound discovery in consideration of factual and legal claims; potential avenues of defense; and evidence material to the issues• Draft objections and responses to discovery; determine responsiveness of materials• Analyze discovery responses to identify avenues necessitating further investigation and anticipate case strategy of opposing counsel • Review and analyze medical/billing, personnel/payroll, scholastic, and public records, utilizing same for creating liability and damages assessments; developing questions to propound to witnesses; and identifying material and impeaching evidence• Retain appropriate experts to defend against opposing parties’ allegations, evidence, and expert opinions• Prepare for and participate in mediation and settlement negotiations• Author, develop, and create presentations for continuing legal education courses• Offer detailed and complex analysis of potential legal issues in accordance with each client's particular needs

1303 San Jacinto St. Houston, Tx 77002

• Researched legal issues in bankruptcy and commercial law with a focus on Ponzi scheme definitions, elements, standards, burdens of proof, and characteristics across the nation• Compiled research data and authored summary of controlling Ponzi scheme law in all federal circuits, as well as limited state court cases, and discussed similarities and differences in application of various Ponzi scheme laws to the factual circumstances of cases among the various jurisdictions• Resulting Publication: Dave R. Hague, Expanding the Ponzi Scheme Presumption, 64 DEPAUL L. REV. 867 (2015), available at http://via.library.depaul.edu/law-review/vol64/iss3/5 (credit provided in * footnote).

1303 San Jacinto St. Houston, Tx 77002

• Under the direction of Animal Law Professor, offered legal advice to client, a non-profit wildlife conservation organization, particularly with respect to its standing to bring suit against the City of San Antonio as part of its “Free Lucky!” movement, which seeks the release of Lucky, an Asian elephant, from the San Antonio Zoo to a wildlife sanctuary• Wrote legal memoranda addressing the client’s issues, and whether, to what extent, and under what laws the organization could proceed with its efforts

Houston, Texas Area

• Researched legal issues regarding federal government liens and its rights and restrictions related thereto, as well as the amended Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act• Researched and determined implications of Texas property rights––particularly with regard to disclaiming inherited property––as applied to federal asset forfeiture and financial litigation statutes, cases, rules, and regulations, including extensive analysis of federal tax laws to determine method and manner of calculating partial life estate value in Texas real property• Drafted motions, responses, pleadings, and memoranda involving amended Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, other federal asset forfeiture statutes, cases, rules, and regulations, and federal law related to and affecting application of asset forfeiture laws• Court room observation of criminal restitution, asset forfeiture, and financial litigation cases in federal district court

Houston, Texas Area

• Researched legal issues• Reviewed motions, pleadings, and memoranda• Drafted orders and orally presented to the judges for approval• Discussed evidentiary rulings and trial tactics with the judges• Participated in courtroom observation of federal civil and criminal cases, including motion hearings, jury selection, jury and bench trials, jury charge conferences, and jury debriefings following trial

Houston, Texas Area

• Performed research pertaining to the specific grant, as well as the theater company’s history and mission statement• Utilized skills in technical and persuasive writing • Coordinated with Board Treasurer and President• Met strict deadlines• Achieved monetary goal and received requested grant• Granting foundation commented that my grant was the most well-written it had received

• Sole employee charged with receipt of all new store product, performing in-house and outside research to determine categorization same• Utilized and refined 10-key typing skills to account for store's database, which required manual entry of all information with regard to new product, including but not limited to Artist, Title, Record Label, Record Company, Product Number, Product Type, Genre, Before/After Tax Pricing, Department, and UPC/SKU entry• Sole employee charged with ordering customers' special orders, determined product availability, communicated frequently with customers and maintained ongoing, positive relationships

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law, 4.02 - Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: • Editor, South Texas Law Review • Animal Law Society • Delta Theta Phi • Houston Young Lawyers Association •.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Theatre/Theater

Activities and Societies: Scene Shop Theater• Bachelor of Arts in Theatre - Acting/Directing, with a primary focus on Voice & Dialects •.