PARINI SHROFF

**** ********* **** • LOS ALTOS,CA 94024

650-***-****• acrx4u@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Experience

Littler Mendelson, P.C. Los Angeles, CA

Employment Litigation Associate, October 2009-May 2013

Research and draft dispositive motions, including motions for summary judgment, oppositions to certify/motions to deny class certification in wage and hour class actions; extensive experience in class action blitz interview strategy and execution; draft discovery objections and responses; defend and conduct depositions; and prepare witnesses for deposition and trial; oversee and conduct voluminous document review on various e-Discovery platforms.

Maa Ashapura School Bhuj, Gujarat, India

English Teacher, Summer 2006

Taught English to secondary students in earthquake-devastated region where 40% of schools destroyed

Education

University of Texas, Austin Austin, TX

MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction, May 2015

GPA: 4.0 Cumulative

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA

Juris Doctor, May 2009

GPA: 3.41 Cumulative

High Grades: Contracts (A); Business Associations (A); Criminal Procedure (A); Civil Procedure (A-); Entertainment Law (A-); Law of Sales (A)

University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Arts, Literature and Creative Writing, May 2006

Major GPA: 3.92

Honors: Dean’s List

Publications

“The Last Auspicious Day” published in Salamander Magazine in its Winter 2014 issue;

“Plumage” scheduled to be published in Southern Humanities Review’s 2016 issue;

“Grass Widow” scheduled to be published in Redivider later in 2015;

“Hollywood” published in Harvard Asian American Policy Review Journal in 2015;

“Blue Heat” published in The MacGuffin’s Winter 2015 issue;

“The Hijras” published in DesiLit Magazine in its Summer 2006 issue; and

Recipient of the 2014 Arvon Fellowship near Inverness, Scotland.

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