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Albany, CA, US

San Francisco Bay Area

• Oversee general practice handling cases in areas including high-exposure criminal practice, unlawful detainer/LLT, torts/PI, and administrative matters.
• Conduct all trials, hearings, alternative dispute resolutions, and other legal proceedings.
• Primary responsibility for caseload management; including intake, strategy/negotiation, and disposition of each case.
• Furnish fractional general counsel services to businesses in sectors including fiscal management, entertainment… Show more
• Furnish fractional general counsel services to businesses in sectors including fiscal management, entertainment, software development, and location-based entertainment.
• Negotiate and review contracts of varying complexity, especially service agreements, license agreements, NDAs, and marketing agreements.

Fremont, California, United States

• Provided day-to-day legal guidance regarding policy, operations, and legal compliance for a virtual-reality comedy club.
• Designed, built, scaled, and drove enterprise-wide legal strategies and initiatives to identify and mitigate risk.
• Formed strategic relationships with dozens of prominent executives working in virtual-reality hardware and software development.
• Performed as needed in the Failed to Render Comedy Club and its affiliates as the “Samurai-Lawyer,” both as emcee and… Show more
• Performed as needed in the Failed to Render Comedy Club and its affiliates as the “Samurai-Lawyer,” both as emcee and as comedian. Show less

Oakland, CA

• Took charge of a diverse high-volume civil litigation caseload including personal injury, premises liability, food adulteration, MVA, and other practice areas.
• Adapted quickly to service a wide variety of small businesses including malls, grocery stores, nail shops, COAs, restaurants, and property managers.
• Repeated wins at trial through clear and coherent presentation of scientific and technical information, empathy, and personal presence.
• Primary responsibility for answering,… Show more
• Primary responsibility for answering, issuing discovery, conducting depositions, making offers, preparing for mediation, and conducting trial.
• Enjoyed amicable, functional working relationships with a wide variety of claims adjusters, co-workers, co-counsel, judges, opposing counsel, experts, and others. Coordinated defense in multiple-coverage situations as.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Conducted evaluations of wildfire claims filed against Pacific Gas & Electric in catastrophic wildfires.
• Oversaw in-person inspection of claimant properties by experts in areas such as forestry, real property valuation, soil engineering, and movable property valuation.
• Reviewed each expert report in detail. Synthesized the most relevant findings into strategy documents and other mediation materials.
• Gained working knowledge of property appraisal methods, California flora, and… Show more
• Gained working knowledge of property appraisal methods, California flora, and soil engineering techniques. Show less

• Joint responsibility for oversight of all legal operations in a government-funded indigent defense firm.
• Primary responsibility for intake, strategy/negotiation, and disposition of felony and misdemeanor cases.
• Joint responsibility for all defense legal operations in Dept. 115, a high-volume criminal court.
• Successfully fended off “three-strikes” eligible charges at trial through mastery of evidence law and legal research.
• Procured reversal of client’s conviction at trial,… Show more
• Procured reversal of client’s conviction at trial, against monumental odds, through meticulous legal research and dogged advocacy.

• Primary responsibility for intake, strategy/negotiation, disposition and trial of felony and misdemeanor cases.
• Procured client’s acquittal and release from custody following breakdown of key witness under cross-examination.
• Procured client’s acquittal through recognition of opportunity coupled with execution of a carefully orchestrated plan.
• Procured client’s acquittal through superior understanding of scientific evidence and natural story-telling ability.

San Francisco, CA

Full representation of misdemeanor clients at each stage of representation from arraignment to settlement or jury trial.

Client intake; legal research and writing, written and oral advocacy.

Berkeley, CA

Teach basic criminal law to first-year law students.

• Supported a team of seven attorneys practicing high-level antitrust law in a boutique firm environment.
• Assisted with assembly and filing of Hart-Scott Rodino requests.
• Managed teams of temporary attorneys executing document review in support of completing Government “second requests.”
• Assisted in various acquisitions, including Cingular-BellSouth, GameStop/Electronics Boutique, OmniCare, and others.
• Gained working knowledge of merger and acquisition procedure, especially… Show more
• Gained working knowledge of merger and acquisition procedure, especially Gov’t oversight and approval process.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

* Received "Highest Honors" in Crime and Technology for authorship of "The Bradbury Principle;" which outlined a workable legal framework.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Religion/Religious Studies

Activities and Societies: * Princeton University Players - Musical Theater Performance and Production. Performed in various shows.