Legal Skills and Experience

Project Manager in E-Discovery for Large E-Discovery Vendor - 4 yrs.

• Handle all aspects of e-discovery and investigations for over fifteen large, multi-million dollar cases for AMLAW 50 law firms and Fortune 100 corporate clients. Work as liaison between clients, technical, legal, marketing, IT and product management staff to successfully accomplish case goals. Requires exceptional project management, technical, legal and organizational skills to balance needs of clients against tight deadlines. 

Attorney - 5 yrs.

• Ten-million dollar bank fraud case involving multi-jurisdictional representation, complex financial transactions, computer forensics, very involved interrelated legal theories, e.g. tort, criminal, business, privacy, real property, banking, fiduciary duty, administrative law, and case management of thousands of interrelated paper and electronic records. 
• Multimillion dollar dissolution of partnership of thirty years.
• Six million dollar conservatorship and elder abuse case involving partition sale, real property and fiduciary law.
• Eight hundred thousand dollar lease and real estate contract agreement breach and misrepresentation case.
• Two hundred thousand dollar tax appeals case argued all the way to California’s top tax court (Appeals Board of State Board of Equalization).
• Million dollar probate cases.
• Various family law cases. 

Financial Investigator for Large Consulting Company - 1 yr.

• Financial investigations and e-discovery. Aided in the reconstruction of financial records using database and forensic tools. Prepared electronic evidence for hundred million dollar lawsuits. 

Criminal Appellate Project Panel Attorney - 3 yrs. 

• Handle criminal appeals for convictions, sentences, parole/probation violations.

Published Appellate Cases (as attorney-of-record)

• People of the State of California vs. Mark Anthony Colbert (2007) (157 Cal.App.4th 1068).  

Digital Evidence and E-Commerce Legal Experience
(this experience is essential to civil and business law cases that involve evidence that is technical in nature)

• Editorial Board Member, Digital Evidence Task Force (2002 - 2008):
  Information Security Committee of the ABA
  
  Preparing document that covers digital evidence as may be used by in-house counsel and
  litigators.
   
• Member, Certificate Services Agreements Workgroup (2001 - 2005):
  Information Security Committee of the ABA
  
  Write certificate policies, certificate practice statements, subscriber, relying party and other
  PKI business agreements for a document that will be released for public comment at a later
  date.
   
• Legal Consultant, Large Information Security Company - 2 years
  
  Provided legal research and advice as to the law of e-commerce and general application of
  the law regarding design and use of software products. Emphasis was in information security
  law and e-commerce law. Wrote software license agreement disclaimers and content.
  Provided general advice to technical support staff, documentation and other personnel.