EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW SCHOOL

Juris Doctor Candidate, May 2003

WHITTIER LAW SCHOOL

Outstanding First Year Grades: Torts (95), Constitutional Law I (93), Contracts (92), Real Property (91)

First Year Rank: Top 3%, 2/71

Honors/Awards: CALI Excellence for the Future Award

Invited to join the Whittier Law Review.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Journalism Program, 1987-1988

Law Clerk                                                                 November 2000-present

Member of three-man legal department: work with Vice President and General Counsel/Corporate Secretary on corporate governance.  Roll out employee stock program.  Research states’ regulation of the utility billing industry.  Developed company affirmative action policy.  Answer multi-state agency inquiries about the methodologies employed by the Company.  Respond to consumer disputes by drawing up letters that explain the public policy and legal justification of their utility bills. 

LAW OFFICES OF RALPH F. HIRSCHMANN              Los Angeles, CA

Legal Assistant                                                  March 1998-November 2000

Drafted discovery requests.  Interviewed clients and drafted answers to discovery, memoranda, and correspondence.  Conducted legal research: structured and assembled evidence to support a major legal defense to be interposed at trial in a transit bus products liability lawsuit.  Maintained legal calendar.  Developed law library and participated in all aspects of case management. 

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP       Los Angeles

Legal Assistant Clerk                                            January 1997-March 1998

Worked for partner with West Coast litigation practice.  Maintained files.  Coordinated trial preparations, including assembly of trial binders and demonstrative exhibits.  Coordinated productions.  Supervised court filings.  Assisted attorneys in depositions. Shepardized cases; proof read, edited, cite checked briefs; and maintained calendar. 

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP       Los Angeles

Library Research Clerk                                     August 1994-December 1996

Provided research assistance to attorneys in all departments. 

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP       Boston/L.A.

Office Services Clerk                                                   July 1990-August 1994

General office service support, including faxes, distribution, and photocopy operations.   

INTERESTS

Published film critic and freelance journalist