Real Estate High School
Resume:
F. J. MURPHY PEPPER
Midlothian, VA 23113
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
J.D., Magna Cum Laude, May 1998. Upperclass G.P.A.: 3.7; overall G.P.A.:
3.53
Scholarship: $10,000 for outstanding credentials
Activities: Christian Legal Society, Vice President - Ministry
Moot Court Competition
Federalist Society
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
B.S. in Commerce, concentrations in Finance and Management Information
Systems; minor in History, May 1995
Honors: Echols Scholar
Virginia Scholarship, $3000 yearly for high school merit
Dean's List: Fall 1992, 1993, Spring 1994, 1995
F. J. Murphy Pepper, P.C.
Richmond, VA 2000-Present
Engaged in solo practice of law as a full-service law firm, with heavy
emphasis on real estate transactions, including residential, commercial,
and investment properties. Clients include or have included real estate
agents, real estate companies and lenders, real estate investors, a
homeowners' association, a timber company, an investment advisor affiliated
with a major brokerage firm, an entrepreneur in the fiber optic cable
industry, an sports-gear distributor, a Northern Virginia-based limited
liability company, an engineering firm, restaurants, credit solutions
providers, buyers and sellers of real property, various small business in
Virginia, and numerous parties involved in assorted types of litigation.
Practice consists of conducting closings; drafting and review of contracts,
leases, and other deal documents; purchase and sale of entities;
organization and counseling of start-up companies; and litigating diverse
claims in various courts throughout Virginia.
Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins, P.C.
Richmond, VA 1999- 2000
Associate in the Securities and Capital Formation section of the Business
Department. Practice concentrated in corporate capitalization and
securities transactions. Work involved registration of employee benefit
plans and accompanying securities law research and analysis of blue sky
requirements, securities exchange obligations, insider trading, prospectus
delivery, and resale restrictions. Other responsibilities included
preparation and review of private placement memoranda; securities
compliance and related research; obtaining venture capital; ensuring
compliance with new audit committee requirements; drafting timetables for
clients' proxy obligations; acting as trustee's counsel for conduit
financings; research of recent takeover legislation; organizing LLCs;
advising a client with respect to participation in a distributorship
network; and general corporate practice, including due diligence and review
of corporate proceedings.
Hunton & Williams
Richmond, VA 1998-1999
Associate in the Business Practice Group and member of its Asset
Securitization Team. Practice focused on residential and asset-backed
securitization and corporate and securities transactions. Assisted in six
securitizations for two major clients. Responsibilities included reviewing
opinions, coordinating distributions, receiving comments, drafting
securities, researching the recordation of assignments of mortgage, and
revising closing documents. Other work included conforming a Base
Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement to Plain English requirements,
performing Blue Sky research, updating the Virginia section of the Aspen
Limited Partnership Law Reporter, creating a Special Purpose Vehicle,
substituting mortgage collateral for notes, and filing an S-3 amendment.
NON-LEGAL
EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
INTERESTS
Department of Justice
Falls Church, VA Summer 1997
Specialist assisting the Board of Immigration Appeals at the Executive
Office for Immigration Review. Composed weekly summaries of the most
recent immigration cases to update Board members and staff attorneys.
Indexed immigration-related holdings of U.S. Courts of Appeals and Supreme
Court decisions. Revised Issues Index to reflect two new Congressional
acts.
Leonard, Ralston, Stanton & Remington, Chartered (Dissolved)
Washington, DC Summer 1996
Summer associate for Thomas J. Stanton, former U.S. Trustee. Played active
role in six matters. Researched lien subordination agreements to determine
likelihood of rescission in the case of fraud. Drafted Brief in Support of
Motion for Rehearing of Lift Stay and Brief in Support of Opposition to
Summary Judgment Motion in a lien adversary case in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Composed Motion to Dismiss Appeal in D.C. Court of Appeals. Reviewed
corporate documents. Performed discovery.
Wil Cul Holdings, LLC 2009-Present
Managing member of bar and grill, trading as Cullen's Cove in
Mechanicsville, Virginia. Restaurant competes through live entertainment,
events, and various promotions.
Virginia Elite Mortgage Company
2008-2010
sole owner of Central Virginia-based mortgage company specializing in
brokering residential mortgages.
Virginia State Bar, Supreme Court of Virginia, U.S. District Courts for the
Eastern and Districts of Virginia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit
Indoor rowing, history, fiction, puzzles, spending time with family, and
Nebraska football
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