Real Estate Workers Compensation

Tina F. Cowen, Esquire

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Ambler, PA 19002

215-***-**** email: **********@*****.***

Bar Admissions: NJ, including the District of NJ; PA, including the Eastern District of PA

Career History

Associate Counsel

Deb Shops, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2000-2010

• Review, negotiate and prepare for execution: contracts, leases, construction exhibits,

subordinations and estoppels; draft range of range of type of documents.

• Serve as member of real estate committee, dealing with site selection and economic

issues.

• Negotiate accounting/lease administration issues and potential defaults.

• Ensure compliance with import, consumer and corporate practices.

• Assist in hiring/promoting issues and employment related issues as well as enforce

policies.

• Team with outside counsel on legal issues, billing and case management.

Attorney

Dessen, Moses & Sheinoff, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1995-1999

• Handled significant caseload for general practice firm, including practice with real estate,

landlord/tenant, workers compensation, domestic relations and criminal law matters, with

substantial client contact.

• Performed such duties as: real estate closings and preparing complaints, motions,

petitions and demands.

• Conducted depositions; analyzed documents; negotiated settlements; successfully tried

bench trials; tried a civil jury case; prepared wills, living wills and powers of attorney.

• Appeared before Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Judicial Clerk to the Honorable George L. Seltzer, JSC

New Jersey Superior Court, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1994- 1995

• Researched and analyzed civil motions.

• Drafted legal analysis and made recommendations regarding civil motions; researched

statutes and analyzed case law for court cases at bar.

• Served as liaison for judge, attorneys and litigants and mediated small claims cases.

Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Norman Shinkle

Michigan Tax Tribunal, Lansing, Michigan 1993 -1994

• Assisted Judge in researching statutes and case law; drafted court orders for motions

seeking judicial relief and prepared memoranda.

Education

J.D., THOMAS M. COOLEY LAW SCHOOL, Lansing, MI 1994

B.S. in Education, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA 1990

PROFESSIONAL and CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS

American Bar Association. Pennsylvania Bar Association. Philadelphia Bar Association, Real

Property division. ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers).

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