Steptoe & Johnson

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Drafted and finalized employee handbook and drug-free workplace policy for mining company

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2011
  Steptoe & Johnson
• 2009-2011
  Judicial Clerk to The Honorable Thomas M. Burke, United States Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges
• 2007-2009
  Law Clerk, United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer, Western District of Pennsylvania

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AWARDS

• ABA & Bureau of National Affairs Award for Excellence in the Study of Labor & Employment Law (2009)
• CALI Excellence Award for the highest grade in employment discrimination, securities regulation and family law (2009)
• Order of the Barristers
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Semi-Finalist, Carol Los Mansmann Appellate Oral Argument Competition
• Womens Bar Association of Western Pennsylvania
• American Inns of Court
• Graduated magna cum laude, Duquesne University
• Graduated summa cum laude, Washington & Jefferson College

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Pittsburgh Young Professionals
• Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
• Defense Research Institute
• Washington & Jefferson College Alumni Association
• Duquesne Law Alumni Association

PUBLICATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Authored articles on such issues as associational discrimination under the ADA and the “reasonable factors other than age” defense under the ADEA
• Speaker, Panel on Judicial Clerkships, Duquesne Law 2009
• Duquesne Law Review, Volumes 46 & 47 2007-2009