James W. Crowley, Esq. Ex-journalist, IT manager & attorney

Direct: 614-***-**** advrja@r.postjobfree.com 4149 Maystar Way Fax: 614-***-**** Hilliard, Ohio 43026-3012

Licensed in Ohio and before the U.S. Supreme Court Re: Ex-newsman/retiring lawyer renews writing and editing passion (2-pg. resume below) Dear Madam or Sir:

I can write concisely. I worked for 25 years as a newspaper reporter, copy editor and proofreader. I taught writing part-time at Columbus State community college. I trained 200 journalists on legacy computer systems at The Columbus Dispatch. I’ve been a generalized lawyer for 36 years. I’ve got courtroom experience, perform my own legal research, and keep letters to 1 page. I seek flexible wordsmith work. Working in media or law requires tact, precise communication and an ability to think dynamically. I began as a courts, government and investigative reporter. As a reporter in the Youngstown area, I asked ‘the tough question.’ At The Dispatch, I edited and wrote headlines for multiple editions every day. I am a self-taught publishing- systems engineer who did the first online newspaper in 1981. I was promoted to supervise 11 software and/or hardware engineers. We supported 7 computer rooms communicating in the 1980s from Downtown Columbus to a remote printing plant. Time management enabled me to work up to 60 hours a week – and attend night law school at Capital University. Judges and other attorneys compliment me on brevity and concise writing. As a college adjunct professor, I taught communications, beginning- writing and composition. As a lawyer I taught a real-estate ethics to Realtor trainees. Mark Twain said: “I’d have written a shorter letter if I had more time.” Most of my

‘clips’ are online through dispatch.com archives. https://dispatch.newsbank.com/ Email is my preferred method of contact. You also are welcome to call or text. My 2-page curriculum vitae is varied, solid and verifiable. With respect, I remain,

/s/ James W. Crowley

JWC/jwc (Resume attached/enclosed below)

Jim Crowley Digitally signed by Jim Crowley

Date: 2022.12.21 08:47:34

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James W. Crowley, Esq. CROWLEY LAW OFFICES

Direct: 614-***-**** advrja@r.postjobfree.com 655 Metro Place S., Ste. 600 Fax: 614-***-**** Dublin, Ohio 43017-3394

Licensed in Ohio and before the U.S. Supreme Court RESUME and CAREER SUMMARY

Former wordsmith, general-practice attorney and sole practitioner. Write ‘tight.’ Twenty- five years’ professional-journalism career in various roles. Concurrently run general-law practice in Ohio. Licensed before the U.S. Supreme Court. Experience mediating win-win consumer disputes. Experience in suing, probate, small business issues and other matters. EXPERIENCE Consumer-Law and Real-Estate Attorney, 1985-Currently

• Advocate, negotiator and specialist in Ohio's Consumer Sales Practices Act. Knowledge of various industries’ standards and concepts of expressed/implied warranties. Awareness of federal consumer-protective regulations.

• Solomonic resolutions of "unfair and deceptive," "unconscionable" acts and illegal practices per decided case law or the Ohio Attorney General’s Administrative Code.

• Decades of privately-hired representation of residential buyers or sellers across central Ohio. Knowledgeable of buy-sell contracts used daily by Realtors in 6- county metro area.

• Probate-avoidance estate planning, direct-asset transfers, Wills, durable general powers of attorney and advanced health-care directives. Family-benefitting property transfers that don’t violate fluid Medicaid “look-back” periods.

• Small-business representation. General civil work, some criminal defense.

• Formed separate company in mid-1990s to debunk the Y2K Millennium Myth. Use live-response to government or businesses; coordinate 6 on-site subcontractors.

• Pioneered skills in Ohio needed for court-admissible computer forensics in the 1990s. Helped imprison 7 child pornographers across Ohio. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Minor in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Kent State University, Kent 1977. Academic Scholarship, volunteer work at student newspaper and in KSU publicist office. Served for Ohio Hospital Association as public- relations intern at Ashtabula (OH) General Hospital. Juris Doctorate

Capital University Law School, Columbus 1985; also clerked, worked newsroom full time. Realtor, 2005-2012, (Judy) Minister Realty, Columbus, OH Graduated and licensed Hondros College, 1995. Also did flat-fee sales by owner. REPORTER, COPY EDITOR; PROMOTED AS NEWSROOM ‘IT’ BOSS 1979-2001: Three years covering city/county government for the Warren Tribune Chronicle. Later excelled at The Columbus Dispatch for 22 years as: copy editor; proof- reader; and development of newsroom editing system. Online archive of 1 million pictures/stories. Promoted to Publishing Systems Manager. Helped staff and converge multi-site computer rooms. Worked with color reproduction, imagery and typography. Mandate live-response via 11-engineer staff doing problem- solving 22 hours daily at The Columbus Dispatch. Nation’s first online newspaper, 1981; grew into12 major-newspaper online experiment nationwide for The Associated Press. COMMUNITY SERVICE

1981-Current: Night Prosecutors’ alternative-resolution training. Received consumer- law referrals for free consults and to give options via the Columbus Bar Association. Served repeatedly as requested on WSYX-Channel 6’s “Ask the Lawyer” public calls. Volunteer of the year twice at sons’ Hilliard grade school. Fourth-highest fund- raiser for mid-1990s Church expansion.

Free representation of Afghan, Iraq and older combat-wounded veterans. Represented local chapter of The Order of the Purple Heart. Helped lobby for commemorative marble Purple Heart monument at Columbus (OH) nationwide Veterans Memorial/Museum.

Donated free home-visits to the poor/elderly for Legal Aid of Columbus. Cleanup and general re-construction laborer along coastal New York after 2012 Hurricane Sandy. (Samaritan’s Purse charity).

Later was volunteer meal server and dishwasher feeding 400 homeless each week. Tutored transient inner-city students for 3 years at the Homeless Families Foundation. Unloaded/stocked food supplies and hygiene materials at Hilliard (OH) Food Pantry. PROFESSIONAL WRITER AND FREE-LANCER SERVING A WIDE AUDIENCE 1979-2001, Free-lanced 78 articles for The Columbus Dispatch. News and features for pre-teens. Wrote column for the Home department: "The Lawyer Next Door." Did weekly Capitol magazine features on many topics: Emergency room doctors; mid-1980s computer crime; and the skills of working while in night law school. Interviewed former Gov. Jim Rhodes as well an ex-ACLU official on the 30th Anniversary of the 1970 Kent State anti-war riots. Published never-before-seen ‘May 4’ images and once-embargoed evidence in 1974 civil trial of 14 National Guardsmen. An ultimate U.S. Supreme Court decision clarified Ohio’s governmental-immunity principles. REFERENCES: Subject-specific references on writing, editing, proofreading and the 36-year practice of law available upon request.

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