Steptoe & Johnson

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Wrote the summary judgment and appellate briefing for a municipal client’s defense of wage & hour claims by several employees resulting in near seven-figure savings for this public employer
• Defended city, county, and state police departments in civil rights cases
• Obtained writ of coram nobis to secure expungement of records in client's family member's immigration proceeding
• Assisted with pleadings, briefing, and complicated discovery issues on claim by client against a former manager accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the client
• Drafted indemnity provision in city's civic center performance contract

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2002
  Steptoe & Johnson
• 2000-2001
  Clerk, Honorable Robert C. Chambers, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
• 2001-2002
  Clerk, Honorable Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• 1985-2000
  Sole proprietorship, providing computer programming and laboratory consulting for pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing companies

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AWARDS

• 2008 Alumnus of the Year, West Virginia University Institute of Technology and the College of Engineering and Sciences
• National Moot Court Team
• Virginia Bar’s Environmental Law Digest
• Chairman, White Book (honor system) Review Committee

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Co-Chair, West Virginia University Institute of Technology Computer Science Advisory Council