William C. Penn

**** ** *** ******, ********, Oregon 97202

(h) 503-***-****, (c) 503-***-****

abp657@r.postjobfree.com

P RO F I L E

Oregon State Bar Member, District of Oregon Bar Member, Admitted before the Tax Court, Mediator, and Background

in Science and Engineering.

EXPERIENCE

Attorney, Clarke Balcom, PC, Portland, Oregon 2006-Present

Responsible for all aspects of case preparation and litigation.

Super vise paralegals and sta .

Case Types: Chapter 7 and 13 Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Adversar y Proceedings, Federal Tax (O er in Compromise and

Installment Agreements), Fair Debt Collections, Fair Credit Reporting, Estate Planning, and Probate.

Mock Trial Team Coach, Grant High School & Classroom Law Project, Portland, Oregon 2002-Present

Educate students about criminal and civil trial advocacy, rules of evidence, and criminal and torts law in preparation for

regional and state competition.

Second place in state 2003 and 2006.

Traveled to Croatia in conjunction with United States Department of Education and CIVITAS to conduct Democracy

Camp and teach Croatian students and teachers about the American legal system 2006.

Member Attorney, Penn & Lane, LLC, Portland, Oregon 2003-2006

Started up and managed all aspects of law rm nances and operations, creating pro t within two months.

Case Types: Bankruptcy Filing, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business Formations, Business Contracts, Wage & Hour Litiga-

tion, Eviction, Employment Discrimination Litigation, Creditor Collections, and Tenant Litigation.

Mediator, Multnomah County Small Claims and FED Courts, Portland, Oregon 2001 to 2004

Mediated small claims and evictions cases to settlement using transformative mediation, and recorded settlement con-

tracts.

Legal Intern, Lewis and Clark Legal Clinic, Portland, Oregon 2001

Performed case preparation including client inter views, creation of court documents and IRS lings.

Case Types: FED, Bankruptcy, FDCPA, and Federal Income Tax (Innocent Spouse and O er in Compromise).

E D U C AT I O N

Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon JD Cum Laude & Tax Certi cate 2002

Honors: Phi Delta Phi, International Business Law Scholarship, 2001 & 2002 Pro Bono Honors Award.

Activities: Co-President of ACLU Student Group,Web Master of Environmental Law Caucus.

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California BS Astronomy 1998

Honors: Gnome Club.

Activities: President and Vice President of Blacker House, Co-Chairman of ASCIT Movies.

SKILLS

Internet Research: Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, Lois Law, and Casemaker.

Software Pro ciency: Word, Word Perfect, Excel, OpenO ce.org, iWork, Outlook, Time Matters, Best Case, and

Google Apps.

Operating Systems: MS-Windows MacOSX, Linux and UNIX.

Special Skills: HTML programming, C programming, Shell scripting, System Administration, Web Ser vices with

Apache, Mailing lists with Mailman, Streaming audio with Dar win Streaming Ser ver, Web Mail with Squirrel mail,

WU-IMAP, Webmin, sshd, rsync, VNC, and some hardware and networking experience.

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