Extensive experience in state and federal courts, including court
appearances for conferences, motions, and appeals, preparation of
pleadings, motions, affidavits, and briefs, conducting and defending
depositions, preparing discovery requests and responses, conferring
with adversaries, witnesses, and court personnel in complex commercial
civil matters, environmental matters, commercial real estate matters,
and land use and zoning matters.
1989-1992
LORD DAY & LORD, BARRETT SMITH
Litigation Associate
1987-1989
THE HONORABLE ROBERT D. POTTER
United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
Law Clerk
EDUCATION
Legal
THE NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL
J.D. June 1987, Magna Cum Laude,
4th in Class of 171
Honors: New York Law School Law Review, Research Editor; American
Jurisprudence Awards in Criminal Law, Federal Courts & Federal
Crimes, New York Practice II, and Wills; Awarded 3-Year Full Tuition
Academic Merit Scholarship; Activities: Student Advisor,
Retention Program; Student Tutor; Selected to appear in New York Law
School Perspectives; Student Internships with Judge George C. Pratt
(U.S. Ct. App., 2d Cir.), Judge Mary Johnson Lowe (S.D.N.Y.), and
Acting New York Supreme Court Justice William D. Friedmann (Sup. Ct.,
Queens County).
College
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
B.A. January 1984, Political Science (with extensive
study in Economics)
Honors: Dean's List 1982-1983; Selected for XXXVth Student
Conference on United States Affairs at U.S.M.A., West Point; Regents
Scholarship; Columbia College Lacrosse
Club.
Boundary Law in
New York (Oct. 2000, Dec. 2001 , Nov. 2002, Aug. 2003, and July
2004) (water boundaries and ethics)
Effective Boundary
Dispute Resolution in New York (Dec. 2003) (resolving boundary
disputes and ethics)
ADMISSIONS:
State of New York (Appellate Division, Second Department, June
1988)
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (June
19, 1990)
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
(June 20, 1990)
BAR ASSOCIATIONS:
American Bar Association (Member Litigation Section); Suffolk County
Bar Association;
Nassau County Bar Association; New York County Lawyers' Association
OTHER INTERESTS: Guitar, Music,
Martial Arts (Tai-Zen Jiu-Jitsu; Tae Kwon Do), Bicycling, Swimming,
Computers, Politics