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Los Angeles, California, United States

Deputy General Counsel at Cornerstone Research, an economic and financial analysis consulting firm that provides support in all phases of litigation and regulatory proceedings. Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and General Counsel, responsibilities include: managing growing legal team; primary responsibility for conflict of interest analysis; primary responsibility for, and oversight of, most corporate and client agreements; providing guidance on legal and business issues to senior management; ensuring company compliance with applicable laws and regulations; risk management; overseeing outside litigation counsel and managing litigation matters, including collections; and training corporate groups and consultants regarding legal issues.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Reported directly to the Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Responsibilities included: primary responsibility for most corporate and client agreements; providing legal guidance on issues impacting corporate groups and on client engagements; ensuring company compliance with applicable laws and regulations; risk management; overseeing outside litigation counsel and managing litigation matters, including collections; overseeing responses to subpoenas, legal holds, and ethical walls; training corporate groups and consultants on legal issues; and conducting general legal research.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Reported directly to the Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Responsibilities included: providing guidance on legal matters and potential legal problems across corporate groups and on client engagements; ensuring company compliance with applicable laws and regulations; reviewing and revising corporate and client agreements; overseeing outside litigation counsel and managing litigation matters; and conducting general legal research.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Associate in the Litigation group in Sidley Austin LLP’s Los Angeles office. Successfully represented both individuals and businesses in complex commercial litigation in both state and federal court. Wide range of matters included partnership and real estate disputes, contract disputes and business tort matters, California and federal class actions, and labor and employment litigation, including collective actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Also represented clients in connection with white collar investigations.Representative matters include:- Representing a global investment management firm in a complex business dispute concerning a motion picture slate; - Obtaining a favorable settlement for limited partners seeking to extricate themselves from a real estate partnership; - Representing a professional services firm in multijurisdictional class and collective actions, challenging its alleged misclassification of tens of thousands of employees; and - Representing a a media company in connection with an internal investigation. Actively engaged in pro bono matters. Successfully represented numerous clients seeking legal guardianship, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (“SIJS”), domestic violence restraining orders, and Combat Related Special Compensation (“CRSC”). Recipient of Bet Tzedek Pro Bono Attorney of the Year award in 2013 for successful representation of clients seeking legal guardianship of their granddaughter, which culminated in a bench trial with multiple witnesses.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Performed legal research and analysis for then Dean of the UCLA School of Law, Michael Schill.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science And Government

Pi Sigma Alpha; Dean's List