Sales Assistant

David William Parnell Machemer

**** ***** ******** ******, ***. 3007, Chicago, Illinois 60616 • 269-***-**** (Cell) • abnm8w@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Member of the Bar, State of Illinois, November 2008

• Illinois State Bar & Chicago Bar Associations

WORK EXPERIENCE

Horwood Marcus & Berk, Chicago, Illinois

Staff Attorney / Full-time Clerk, November 2007 – Present

• Research and draft memoranda on legal and factual issues in the highly technical and complex practice area of

state and local tax involving sales and use tax, income/franchise tax, voluntary disclosure programs, and

economic nexus.

• Draft multi-state surveys on sourcing of companies’ sales, property and payroll factors.

• Conduct research and prepare summary write-ups of caselaw and other developments in state and local tax for

our client newsletters and in preparation of tax seminars and conferences.

• Draft discovery documents and pre-trial motions concerning a variety of commercial disputes.

• Engage in ongoing correspondence with state motor vehicle board representatives concerning the licensing of

vehicle manufacturers and resolution of dealership issues for closely-held corporations.

• Analyzed financial and tax-based incentives for businesses engaged in the retail and restaurant industries within

economically-deprived Chicago neighborhoods.

• Drafted an in-depth memorandum on the risks and challenges of brownfield development and the financing

opportunities made available through the E.P.A.’s brownfields and land revitalization program.

Power Rogers & Smith, P.C., Chicago, Illinois

Law Clerk, May 2006 – November 2007

• Afforded great responsibility while drafting pleadings, discovery requests, pre-trial motions, and appellate briefs

while clerking for a nationally recognized Plaintiff’s firm.

• Assisted attorneys in the discovery process and trial preparation by drafting motions to compel and motions in

limine to bar testimony and evidentiary matters at trial.

• Researched and drafted internal legal memoranda on the issues of principal/agent liability, the tort immunity

doctrine, the discovery rule and the statute of repose, the learned intermediary doctrine and others.

EDUCATION

The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois G.P.A.: 3.38

Juris Doctor, May 2008 Rank: Top 32%

• Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution Honors Board & Council

• Research assistant for Professor Timothy O’Neill, Fall 2007 & Spring 2008

• First Year Mock Trial Competition (Placed 5th out of approximately 30 teams)

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan GPA: 3.52

Bachelor of Arts in General Business Administration, Cum Laude, December 2004

• Attended the University of South Carolina for the 2001-2002 academic year (GPA: 3.85)

o Earned a varsity letter for participation on the men’s track team that finished ranked in the top 25 in NCAA,

Division I.

PUBLISHED WORKS

• Co-authored with partner Jordan M. Goodman “Electricity Tangible or Not? One State Changes Its Mind,” THE

JOURNAL OF MULTISTATE TAXATION AND INCENTIVES, July 2009.

• Co-authored with partner David A. Hughes “The FutureGen Project: The Rise and Fall of Mattoon, Illinois,”

THE JOURNAL OF MULTISTATE TAXATION AND INCENTIVES, June 2008.

VOLUNTEER ENDEAVORS

• Journeyland, Park Community Church, Chicago, Illinois, 2007 – Present

o Sunday school teacher for 3 year-old children.

• Joshua Center Women’s Shelter, Chicago, Illinois, 2006 – Present

• Organized charity drive for underprivileged children in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, 2003 – 2004

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