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Skills

  • Client relationship management
  • Dispute arbitration
  • Problem resolution
  • MS Office
  • Class action settlement negotiation
  • Complex contractual dispute resolution
  • Project organization
  • Client communication during ongoing litigation
  • Process improvement
  • Investigation skills

Work Experiences

  • Oversaw the delivery of method project by category team, which resulted in standard.
  • Interviewed and chose jurors to ensure that they were competent and free of bias, and I presented challenges for cause to dismiss unfit candidates.
  • Achieved dismissal through aggressive pre-trial motions.
  • Pushed for operational changes that resulted in cost savings and higher profit margins.
  • Achieved successful resolution for a client in Legal law by winning summary judgment in $18 dispute, averting extended litigation.
  • Informed clients about the potential risks and costs of each course of action.
  • Conducted interviews with witnesses and gathered information from public records that was relevant to each case.
  • Achieved a ruling in favor of the client.
  • Achieved a substantial ruling in favor of the client within 18 months, avoiding $3 in anticipated settlement costs.
  • Achieved a 28% reduction in potential damages.

Summaries

  • Adept at structuring settlements.
  • Credentialed legal professional with exceptional skills in arbitration hearings, consistently securing favorable outcomes and minimizing client risks in Legal matters.
  • Coordinated successful litigation across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Avoided costly trials.
  • Aligned litigation efforts.
  • Achieved favorable outcomes in litigation.
  • Achieved early dismissals of claims.
  • Mediation, arbitration, and settlement negotiation expertise.
  • Litigation Lawyer with 13 years of successful process improvement and strategic planning experience.
  • Conducted in-depth legal research on privacy laws.

Accomplishments

  • Delivered compelling and strategic opening and closing arguments, securing favorable verdicts in over 59% of jury trials.
  • Secured judgments worth over 10 in damages for plaintiffs in high-profile commercial litigation cases involving metric industries.
  • Argued before a state supreme court, setting a new legal precedent that protected consumer rights within the Legal sector.
  • Successfully mediated complex class-action settlements, reducing potential damages by 82% for the firm’s largest clients.
  • Worked closely with expert witnesses for 15 insurance defense cases, contributing to a 20% improvement in favorable judgments.
  • Defended corporate clients in Legal class-action lawsuits leading to a negotiated settlement with a significant 6 savings.
  • Achieved successful defense verdicts in 21% of cases tried before both state and federal courts in program.
  • Consistently achieved 81% reduction in annual corporate litigation costs by developing risk mitigation strategies and enhancing case settlements.
  • Conducted comprehensive legal research on privacy and consumer protection laws, which led to the defeat of a motion to dismiss a Legal-related class-action suit.
  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing.

Affiliations

  • Rotary International
  • American Marketing Association
  • Lions Club
  • American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation Section
  • Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), Litigation Technology Member
  • Federal Bar Association (FBA), Past Chair for Litigation Committee
  • International Council of Nurses
  • Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Litigation Committee Member
  • Appointed Arbitrator/Litigation Counsel, process
  • Association for Computing Machinery

Certifications

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Apple Certified Associate (ACA)
  • Certified Expert in Mediation and Dispute Resolution - process
  • International Arbitration Certification – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
  • ServSafe
  • Conflicts of Interest Training Certificate - category
  • ACAMS Certified Anti-Fraud and Compliance Professional (CAFCP)
  • Business Law Study Specialization Certification - program
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Advanced Legal Writing Certificate - National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA)

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