Insurance Real Estate

MARK D. KLEINE

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The Colony, TX 75056 Email: ******@*******.***

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Kilo, Flynn, Billingsley, Trame & Brown, P.C., St. Louis, Missouri

Attorney at Law, July 2009 - March 2011

Area of Concentration: Commercial Litigation, Legal Drafting and

Appellate Practice

- Provided Commercial Litigation, Drafting and Appellate legal

services in Missouri and Illinois.

- Represented business clients damaged by improper transactions to

ensure a proper remedy was secured through negotiation and/or

lawsuit.

. Performed legal research; prepared petitions, motions and

supporting memorandums of law; took and defended depositions;

represented clients at court hearings; and engaged in

settlement negotiations with opposing counsel/parties.

- Advised clients in business transactions and prepared business

documents to achieve desired results, minimize legal exposure, and

ensure compliance with local, state and federal laws.

. Prepared service contracts, asset purchase agreements,

employment contracts, deeds of trust, general warranty deeds,

promissory notes, corporate resolutions, bylaws, and operating

agreements.

- Represented clients in the Missouri Supreme Court and Missouri

Court of Appeals.

. Prepared Appellate Briefs, Motions and Supporting Memorandums

of Law.

- Advised clients in Estate Planning and prepared Trusts, Wills, and

Powers of Attorney.

Shostak & Shostak, L.L.C., St. Louis, Missouri

(Contractor) Attorney at Law, March 2009 - August 2009

Area of Concentration: General Civil and Criminal Litigation

- Contracted to assist in a gender employment discrimination case.

- Issued and responded to pre-trial discovery, performed legal

research and drafted legal memorandums of law relevant to

pregnancy/gender discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil

Rights Act of 1964 (TitleVII), Missouri Human Rights Act, and

Family Medical Leave Act. A confidential settlement was negotiated

and obtained.

Bryan Cave, L.L.P., St. Louis, Missouri

(Contractor) Attorney at Law, November 2007 - January 2009

Area of Concentration: Litigation

- Contracted to assist in organizing and responding to issued

discovery in suits involving large corporate clients.

- Analyzed corporate clients' business communications, documents and

materials for responsiveness and privilege objections to discovery

requests in various federal antitrust, class action, tort and

breach of contract actions.

Riezman Berger, P.C., Clayton, Missouri

Attorney at Law, February 2006 - October 2007

Area of Concentration: Insurance Litigation

- Oversaw an extensive insurance subrogation caseload from case

inception to disposition for an extensive list of national

insurance companies.

- Regular duties included legal research; drafting petitions in

various actions of tort and contract; drafting and arguing various

procedural and substantive motions; issuing and responding to

discovery; taking and defending depositions; engaging in settlement

discussions; preparing witnesses for trial testimony; and

litigating such matters at trial.

- Represented two large lending institutions and their creditor

rights in breach of contract and replevin actions.

- Maintained constant client interaction through regular case status

updates and recommended courses of action.

- Tried over twenty-five tort and contract actions throughout the

circuit courts of Missouri and Illinois.

Dunn & Miller, P.C., St. Louis, Missouri

Attorney at Law, October 2004 - February 2006

Area of Concentration: Commercial Litigation and Drafting

- Oversaw a large creditor's rights caseload for two global financial

institutions from case inception to collection.

- Regularly researched and drafted pleadings, motions and memorandums

of law concerning various commercial and general litigation

matters.

- Researched and drafted a winning appellate brief on a DWI appeal in

the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

- Researched and drafted the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

for a commercial litigation case tried in the Circuit Court of St.

Louis City.

- Tried several cases in various Missouri circuit courts.

- Regularly attended status and motion hearings in numerous Missouri

and Illinois circuit courts.

- Drafted various commercial and real estate agreements for business

clients such as asset purchase agreements, lease agreements,

licenses and easements.

- Drafted, amended and maintained corporate documents, including

articles of incorporation/organization and bylaws/operating

agreements, for numerous local corporations and limited liability

corporations.

- Drafted wills, trusts, and powers of attorney.

FINANCIAL EXPERIENCE

BearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting, Inc.), St. Louis,

Missouri

Management Analyst, September 1999 - July 2001

- Held Secret Level Security Clearance.

- Deployed in the Government/Public Services Sector.

- Identified and implemented management strategies to capture process

improvement opportunities and increase employee efficiency and

output quality.

- Audited and reconciled contracts of the Army Materiel Command's

(AMC) subordinate commands' (TACOM, CECOM, etc.) with Defense

Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) payment systems to ensure

that proper accounting procedures were followed.

- Resolved accounting discrepancies between AMC's Standard Operation

and Maintenance Army Research and Development System (SOMARDS) and

DFAS payment system records.

- Trained new personnel in SOMARDS.

- Participated in weekly meetings with AMC personnel and issued

weekly status reports on team progress.

Honors: Received Great Performer Award from the Army Materiel

Command for

exceeding contract goals.

EDUCATION

University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri

- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Dual Emphasis:

Finance and Economics), May 1999

Honors: Omicron Delta Epsilon National Economics Honor

Society, Treasurer

and Member.

Saint Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri

- Juris Doctor, May 2004

- Certificate of International and Comparative Law, May 2004

BAR MEMBERSHIP

Missouri Bar Association

Member, September 2004

Illinois State Bar Association

Member, November 2005

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