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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I work across the 15 offices of a 600+ attorney law firm to find, create and share compelling stories.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I managed Answers On, the jewel in the crown of Thomson Reuters' owned channels. I worked across four worldwide divisions to find and create stories that illustrated the company's innovation, technology and human expertise, and then shared that content on the proprietary channel best suited to the tailored audience.Under my watch, yearly readership increased 25 percent and time-on-page by 63 percent.

Eagan, Minnesota

Managed 18,500-user social media community, including Twitter account, Facebook page, LinkedIn profile and presence on other social media outlets.Performed competitor and market research to provide value-driven analysis and insights.Generated white papers, blog posts, internal communications and client-facing collateral.

Minneapolis

Developed elegantly constructed written proposals and substantive, tailored RFPs that secured new legal business. Successes included: • Crafted proposal that won mission-critical work for a client in simultaneous district court, International Trade Commission and Patent Trial and Appeal Board actions. • Generated RFP that earned our team an overseas client’s first-ever offensive action in U.S. district court. • Supported creation of presentation that landed representation of the world’s largest maker of drones.Researched cases, companies and issues for marketing and litigation departments and developed appealing, powerful visual presentations for attorney use.Maintained database of past proposals and RFPs and compiled monthly and as-needed statistical reports on pitch activity, practice group experience and firm-wide case trends.Analyzed results of all litigation pitches and RFPs to help evaluate ROI, and routinely reported results to managers and executives.Created new and ongoing pitch materials on an ongoing bases that articulated the firm's most successful differentiators. Contributed to construction of a polished, refined image of the world's top intellectual property law firm.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed social media profile for Large and Medium Law, the segment representing Thomson Reuters' largest and most high-profile clients.Responsibilities included editing customer-facing blog, overseeing Twitter handle and creating content for internal and external internet/intranet presence.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Prepared fresh, innovative digital content for law firm clients on topics including: Business and commercial law; wills, estates and trusts; securities regulation; and criminal law.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Performed legal research and analysis for Best Buy corporate counsel on employment, contracts and environmental law matters.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Assisted practicing attorneys with drafting, research, document review and trial preparation.

Assisted Associate Professor of Law Elizabeth Schiltz with research regarding banking, finance and micro-lending research.

Researched environmental issues for nonprofit legal agency.Prepared executive summaries and presentations for legal staff.Facilitated communications campaigns.

Researched and wrote four to eight articles per week for daily newspaper.Conducted personal and phone interviews on a daily basis.Collaborated with newsroom employees to meet daily, weekly and monthly deadlines.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Worked with constituents and city officials to address comments and complaints.Managed database of constituent input and feedback.Researched and reported to the alderman on relevant issues (i.e. crime rates)

Greater Milwaukee Area

Contributed content to one of Milwaukee's leading sources for business news, statistics and information

Greater Milwaukee Area

Responsible for overseeing a staff of eight.Assigned articles once a week and copy-edited/proofread 12-15 articles per week.Required continuous exercise of news judgment and ethics

Greater Milwaukee Area

Generated informative, attractive content for multiple internal communications channels and fulfilled tasks in accord with overall information strategy.

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: School of Law News, Environmental Law Society, Law School AmbassadorsEditor of campus newspaper, student mentor.

B.A., Journalism

Activities and Societies: Marquette Tribune Student Newspaper, Tau Kappa AlphaGraduated magna cum laude.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism