LEGAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Contract Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed bankruptcy documents, e - discovery files and Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 filings by companies seeking to attach creditors’ properties on a privately-owned bankrupt for use in trustee recuperation action.
• Drafted contract provisions and negotiated various clauses within purchase agreements, merger agreements and settlement agreements. Also drafted amendments to indemnity agreements, revised Agreement and Plan of Mergers and other to proposed regulatory changes under antitrust, privacy and financial disclosure laws.
• Drafted and revised merger agreements and independent contractor agreements in addition to MSA Forms and negotiated price percentage changes on market derivatives.
• Drafted memos and reports for clients and partners detailing research findings, client liabilities and parties’ culpability in pending federal and state court cases.

Confidential, New York, NY

Contract Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed 1st, 2nd, and QC level documents for healthcare & telecommunication clients. Conducted privileged reviews, redactions, & analyzed client liability and risk assessment based on clients’ prior negotiations & mergers.
• Worked on healthcare merger documents, reviewed e-discovery and exchanged dialogue with attorneys, staff on time sensitive materials based on review of culled relevant, privileged and hot documents on Axcelerate.

Confidential, New York, NY

Contract Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed 1st, 2nd, and QC level documents for healthcare & telecommunication clients.
• Conducted privileged reviews, redactions, & analyzed client liability and risk assessment based on clients’ prior negotiations & mergers.
• Worked on antitrust, employment law, liability and discrimination claims within the health insurance framework.

Confidential, New York, NY

Contract Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Used Relativity, Westlaw and LexisNexis to conduct legal research and draft legal memos to inform senior counsel of case outlook in M&A transaction; Reviewed e-discovery for litigation potential and culpability of clients in order to calculate settlement negotiations and likelihood of trial for Fortune 100 communications client & partners.
• Reviewed commercial contracts, licensing agreements, company portfolio and tax documents for discovery production Drafted briefs, internal legal memos and spreadsheets outlining liability for partners review in trial preparation and settlement negotiations.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Contract Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed PHARMA client and third party vendor chemical compounds, nucleosides, and elements to determine pharmaceutical patents, copyrights and intellectual property rights for clients in pharmaceutical and sales industry.
• Reviewed Confidential patent applications, company press releases, vaccination composition structure and IP for use in determining client’s stake of claim in litigation.
• Performed 1st and 2nd level discovery review of patent contracts, whistleblower agreements and e-discovery documents for clients in insurance, securities, L&E, tax, commercial litigation and tort law practice areas.

Confidential, New York, NY

Contract Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Drafted and reviewed 1933, ’34 Securities Act filings, note offerings, Form 8-K and SEC Filings for tax clients preparing due diligence audits in discovery.
• Prepped briefs and memos in defense of client in a whistleblower accusation/employment law case. Drafted reports to attorneys detailing comparative liability/fault each party.
• Reviewed legal documents, coupons, structured finance asset pools and mortgage backed-security packages from investment bank clients on the secondary mortgage market to determine volatility of MBS bought and sold by (client) lenders. Produced relevant MBS documents for discovery in RMBS defense litigation.

Confidential, Garden City, NY

Associate Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Conducted hearings, conference calls with EEOC Admin Law Judges; drafted written replies and appeared for oral replies before government agencies (including DCMA, VA, IRS, CBP, ICE) on behalf of clients.
• Served as advocate of clients before Admin Law Judges in the EEOC and MSPB panels.
• Prepped clients in advance of government hearings and arbitration proceedings on discrimination claims. Drafted discovery (affidavits, notice to admit, requests for admissions) in furtherance of litigation.

Confidential, New York, NY

Associate Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of pre-trial discovery including depositions, motion practice and court conference appearances in asbestos law and general litigation cases.
• Reviewed medical records, interrogatories, contracts and exposure cases involving plaintiffs in NYCAL. Appeared in Court for compliance, preliminary and settlement conferences.
• Conducted legal research to prep pre-trial defense for partners.
• Contested evidentiary hearings and complex motions under the CPLR. Drafted opinion letters and status reports assessing client liability before trial.
• Handled general litigation cases including: insurance defense, toxic torts, administrative and regulatory matters, breach of contract analysis and product liability defense.

Confidential, New York, NY

Contract Attorney

Responsibilities:

• Worked with litigation support staff to research, e-track and process of opposing counsel’s DNI and e-data
• Reviewed summons and motions for use in organizing interrogatories and requests for admissions.

Confidential, New York, NY

Litigation Associate

Responsibilities:

• Used Relativity, Citrix, Westlaw/Lexis, Pub Med and MS Access databases to assist BDO accountants and senior attorneys in tax litigation and review of client tax filings.
• Drafted advisory tax opinions for BDO clients based on my analysis of individual and small business tax filings of 1040, 1099, 944, W-2 forms.
• Analyzed prior individual and small business tax returns, filings, employee and independent contractor business expenses in conjunction with most recent tax filings to provide tax accountants and tax attorneys with an assessment on gains/loss due to natural disaster.

Confidential, New York, NY

Finance Research Associate

Responsibilities:

• Input financial reports of Confidential & corp bonds. Supervised auction rate securities (ARS) team and informed clients of interest rate changes in Libor/NYSE backed bonds; Worked as underwriter and evaluator liaison.
• Worked with underwriters on bond pricing and market changes on ratings, derivatives and ARS bonds. Used Bloomberg terminal to analyze and gauge price point of OTC/bond market changes in accordance to TRACE.