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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Served as lead counsel on cases involving public law, land use, civil rights, and governmental tort liability with additional experience handling real estate, employment, and entertainment law matters. Defended public entities, including their elected officials and employees, in Tennessee state and federal courts.Managed a caseload ranging from ten to.

Nashville, Tennessee

Provided legal representation to a wide range of clientele, including state and federal criminal defendants, businesses, entertainers, and victims of crimes. Successfully defended a violation of probation hearing; served second chair at a trial and several preliminary hearings; regularly examined witnesses in court; engaged in business development.

Drafted and contributed to judicial opinions on various criminal and constitutional law issues, including habeas corpus relief, post-conviction proceedings, searches and seizures, and sentencing.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Drafted interoffice memoranda on several legal issues: civil procedure, utility regulations, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, national forest policy, and nuisance law; assisted with expert witness vetting, electronic document review for discovery, and client meetings.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

Drafted interoffice memoranda on a range of topics: regulatory enforcement, sovereign immunity, professional responsibility, water law, and air law; worked with technical staff and rule makers on research issues; learned to successfully research and analyze complex rules and regulations.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Helped with the legal needs of the indigent community; drafted interoffice memoranda, pleadings, marital dissolution agreements, client letters, motions, and orders; regularly communicated with clients to collect facts and relay legal information; networked with many members of the legal community including judges, lawyers, clerks, and paralegals; learned.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Recruited, developed, and managed a campaign team; delegated responsibilities for the campaign and oversaw key tasks; spoke publicly in front of hundreds of voters; identified key topics and wrote editorials for the local newspaper; and gave multiple interviews for state and local media increasing commitments and voters to my campaign.

Developed an extensive policy section for the website; issued press releases; successfully communicated with Congress to promote policies aimed to increase the production and consumption of organic agriculture.

I was responsible for my own research project that includes comparing floodplain forest vegetation dynamics in Ruellia simplex invaded and non-invaded land using a seed bank study. My responsibilities included, collecting field samples, working in a greenhouse, determining species composition, and analyzing statistical data.Works published:Comparing.

I analyzed budgets from various counties, and made recommendations to Alachua County on better budget guidelines and performance management practices.

I worked directly with the Executive Director of a new Florida not-for-profit corporation to develop first year, $80,000 budget. Completed state corporate filing for solicitation of contributions with the Division of Consumer Services. Reviewed other financial and regulatory documents including Internal Revenue Service form 1023 for recognition as tax.

I researched and compiled a report on the feasibility of new transit in Gainesville, Florida. My report was given to the City Commission for review and analysis.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Activities and Societies: Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, Managing Editor; National Environmental Moot Court Team; Environmental Law.

Bachelor Of Science And Bachelor Of Arts, Environmental Science And Political Science, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Tau Kappa Epsilon, Executive Board Member; Florida College Democrats, Executive Board Member; UF College.

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