• Trial lawyer• Litigates high exposure cases to successful conclusions• Acts as lead attorney on catastrophic personal injury, complex commercial litigation, products liability, premises liability, transportation, and dram shop lawsuits• Regularly drafts and argues motions and attends hearings, depositions, and mediations

• Negotiated a shareholder's dispute over eight tracts of developed commercial real estate in Manhattan and resolved other associated tax, trust and estate issues• Litigated plaintiffs' personal injury lawsuits• Performed oil & gas mineral right title searches and rendered legal opinions thereon• Advised business founders on business structures and intellectual property and formed their new businesses• Formed and negotiated contracts for products and services• Worked with… Show more • Negotiated a shareholder's dispute over eight tracts of developed commercial real estate in Manhattan and resolved other associated tax, trust and estate issues• Litigated plaintiffs' personal injury lawsuits• Performed oil & gas mineral right title searches and rendered legal opinions thereon• Advised business founders on business structures and intellectual property and formed their new businesses• Formed and negotiated contracts for products and services• Worked with municipalities to acquire building permits and condemn abandoned properties Show less

• Coordinated a five-employee team that prevented class action litigation following an extensive data breach• Established policy for outside counsel's billing guidelines and drafted the company's template retainer agreement• Reviewed and analyzed real property and asset acquisition contracts of nursing facility• Drafted a best practices guidelines for the company's executives regarding the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure

• Mediated over 100 civil lawsuits, including civil harassment suits and debt collections, on behalf of the Superior Court of Riverside County, and was recognized with the highest performance-based honors during that term

• Exonerated a wrongfully imprisoned individual who served 24 years of a life without parole sentence• Analyzed and summarized thousands of pages of trial transcripts and other case materials, interviewed free and incarcerated witnesses, collaborated with deputy district attorneys, & drafted and filed a habeas petition

• Drafted a Freedom of Information Act response through research and briefing that successfully defeated a request for compulsion of trade secrets and other proprietary information• Authored a report on energy-related authorizations granted to the Department of Energy through public laws since 1975, cited by Sen. Lisa Murkowski in a U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing• E-published and presented original research on the legislative potential and legal obstacles… Show more • Drafted a Freedom of Information Act response through research and briefing that successfully defeated a request for compulsion of trade secrets and other proprietary information• Authored a report on energy-related authorizations granted to the Department of Energy through public laws since 1975, cited by Sen. Lisa Murkowski in a U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing• E-published and presented original research on the legislative potential and legal obstacles for Property Assessed Clean Energy financing, an energy retrofit-financing tool • Prepared a contract for retention of subcontractors on energy efficiency projects, overseen by White & Case, LLP• Compiled a stock index of the Alliance to Save Energy’s publicly-traded associate members and tracked market-based performance trends Show less