Insurance District

JACQUELINE V. GAINES

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LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Sebaly Shillito + Dyer, Commercial Litigation Associate, September

2008-Present

. Represent clients in state and federal courts, administrative

hearings, mediations, and arbitrations

. Prepare motions to dismiss; motions to compel arbitration; motions

for summary judgment; motions to compel production of documents

. Draft complaints and answers

. Assist with employment investigations

. Compose and respond to interrogatories, request for admissions,

requests for production of documents; and subpoenas

. Prepare, take, and defend depositions

. Prepare for and take perpetuation depositions

. Select trial exhibits

. Negotiate settlement agreements

Faruki Ireland & Cox, P.L.L., Commercial Litigation Associate, August

2004 -2008

. Researched and prepared dispositive motions; appellate briefs;

pleadings; opinion letters; and legal memoranda

. Prepared initial disclosures and witnesses

. Found experts and selected arbitrators

. Took depositions

. Prepared and analyzed discovery

Law Office of the Montgomery County Public Defender, Intern, Summer

2006

Selected by Faruki Ireland & Cox partners to participate in Public

Defender Internship

Program

. Represented indigent criminal defendants at preliminary hearings;

status conferences; trials; suppression hearings; and scheduling

conferences

. Conducted client conferences

. Conducted direct and cross examinations

. Negotiated plea agreements

Honorable John D. Tinder, U.S. District Court, Southern District of

Indiana, Clerk, Summer 2003

. Drafted social security benefit decisions

. Prepared bench memoranda

Hill Fulwider McDowell Funk & Mathews, P.C., Indianapolis, Indiana,

Summer 2002

. Research insurance law

. Drafted interoffice memoranda and pleadings

EDUCATION

. Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, J.D.

2004

Sherman Minton Moot Court finalist winning best oralist and best

brief writing distinctions, 2002-2003; Sherman Minton Moot Chief

Justice, 2003-2004

. DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, B.A. Political Science

2001

Studied Racial Reconciliation and Economic Development in Durban,

South Africa and wrote a primary research paper entitled "If These

Streets Could Talk: The Process of Renaming Streets and Monuments

Named for Apartheid Leaders"

BAR ADMISSIONS

. State Bar of Ohio, 2004

. U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, 2005

. U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 2010

. State Bar of Missouri, 2008

. U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, 2008

HONORS AND AWARDS

. Ohio Rising Star Super Lawyer, 2009 and 2007

. Order of Barristers

. DePauw University Presidential Scholar

. Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honor Society

. Mortar Board, National College Senior Honor Society

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