Real Estate Customer Service

Steven M. Sikora, Esq. 917-***-****

*** *** ******* **** ( Bridgeport, CT 06605 (

******.******@*****.***

SUMMARY

ATTORNEY

Proficiencies: Negotiating and drafting procurement, service, technology,

real estate, affiliation, and corporate agreements; and developing and

administering compliance strategies and procedures.

Member of the Connecticut Bar, since 2003 - Juris Number 421523

Member of the New York Bar, since 2008 - Juris Number 4543633

Well-respected Attorney offering a robust career successfully managing

client engagements in real estate and advertising industries. Demonstrated

expertise in research and negotiating complex agreements, managing risk,

and ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal laws. Build

cooperative, valuable partnerships with individuals at all levels of an

organization and from diverse cultures by soliciting ideas from all

stakeholders and demonstrating commitment to quality and professionalism.

Recognized for meeting deadlines, and exhibiting sound reasoning and

accurate judgment in the decision-making process.

KEY STRENGTHS

Client Relations ( Consulting ( Contract Drafting /Negotiations (

Customer Service ( Dispute Resolution

Legal Research ( Project Management ( Legal Representation (

State & Federal Law Compliance

Strategic Planning ( Vendor Relations ( Market Analysis (

Internet Marketing ( Social Media

Needs Assessment ( Policy Development ( Product Marketing (

Staff Training/Development

Motivational Team Leader ( Workforce Planning

CAREER HISTORY

Steven M. Sikora, Attorney at Law, Bridgeport, CT; 06/03 - Present

Law practice specializing in litigation and transactional Real Estate.

Consult on major securities and real estate related litigation. Contact

Attorney and Real Estate Broker for multiple clients. Clients/Projects

include:

Contract Attorney

Update Legal (Grais & Ellsworth); 9/13 - 3/14

. Performed first pass, and second level review. Reviewed documents

for relevance, privilege, and confidentiality concerning Residential

Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) litigation.

Providus (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP); 09/11 - 01/12 and (Quinn

Emanuel); 06/12 - 05/13

. Performed substantive legal work for pending multi-billion dollar

litigation involving mortgage backed securities. Reviewed and

evaluated executed contracts and loan documents ensuring documents

were processed in accordance with applicable program guidelines and

requirements.

. Drafted findings into contractual breaches within an expert report to

be used as evidence at trial.

. Successfully completed project and selected to remain to edit other

attorneys' work and to perform quality control checks on the expert

reports generated.

Tower Legal (Richards, Kibbe & Orbe LLP); 05/11 - 09/11 and 04/12 - 05/12

. Reviewed correspondence/emails in connection with insider trading

investigation for relevance, privilege, and confidentiality.

Project Associate

Pomerantz, Haudek, Grossman & Gross; 06/08 - 01/09 and 11/06 - 05/07

. Performed independent contract work for lead plaintiffs in multiple

class action suits using Relativity.

. Project managed a variety of research matters, including deposition

prep, Lexis/Nexis research.

Contract Attorney

Constantine Cannon, 06/07 - 05/08

. Supervised several dozen contract attorneys working on a multidistrict

antitrust litigation involving key players in the supermarket

advertising industry.

. Trained and mentored new hires. Authored and edited sections of the

review protocol. Used iConect, aConcordance, DocHunter, and

Prevail/FIOS software to review documents for responsiveness,

privilege and confidentiality. Assisted with the Vaughn Index /

Privilege Log.

Hudson Global; 10/05 - 10/06

. Shearman & Sterling: ISDA document review of telecommunications

industry securities litigation. Performed second line review,

general QC of first line reviewers, privilege review, and trained

project new hires.

. Major Pharmaceutical Concern: Represented one of the world's largest

pharmaceutical companies in multidistrict litigation - including

securities fraud, consumer fraud, patent issues, ERISA, derivative and

personal injury claims - and several government investigations.

Practice included FDA and SEC filings.

Purdue Pharma; 05/05 - 09/05

. Performed electronic document review for multiple products liability

cases using CaseCentral software. Analyzed documents to determining

responsive/non-responsive aspects to a wide range of elements, and

privileged/non-privileged as attorney-client communication or work

product.

Hudson Global (Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood); 03/05 - 05/05

. 2005: Performed electronic document review for Second Request

production to the SEC; pertaining to the AT&T/SBC merger. Reviewed

documents to determine whether they were responsive/non-responsive,

and /or attorney-client privileged. Assisted in first-line review, and

follow up quality control of previously tagged documents using

Stratify Software.

Marketing Experience:

Real Estate Investor & Property Manager; 06/02 - Present

In2.com / TMP Worldwide, Online Media Planner/Buyer; 09/99 - 06/02

Performed two main functions: contract negotiator/buyer and media

planner. As contract negotiator I negotiated the terms of the media

buys scheduled. Performed contract review and due diligence to ensure

that the contracts for these buys properly reflected the terms as

agreed.

Negotiated agency rates and master agreements with preferred media

vendors. As Media Planner, I developed strategies for, planned for,

and executed marketing campaigns. Gathered research, competitive

landscape information, and trade intelligence for client media

strategy development. Maintained relationships with key vendors (i.e.

Search Engines, Content Sites, Opt-in E-mail providers, etc.), and

worked directly with Account Managers to deliver strategic media

recommendations that met client objectives.

. Successfully managed and won the renewals of marketing campaigns for

fortune 500 companies.

Recent CLEs

Documenting and Confirming Credit Derivative Transactions Conference

EDUCATION

St. Johns University School of Law, Jamaica, NY

Degree of Juris Doctor; 2001

Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, TN

Bachelor of Arts Degree - History cum laude; 1997

AFFILIATIONS

New York and Connecticut Bar Associations

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Amici

Casemaker

CaseCentral

CaseData

Case Map

Clearwell

Click Maps Concordance

DART

DocHunter

Deposition Prep Kit

Discovery Mining,

FIOS

Excel

iConect

Kroll/OntrackInview

LexisNexis

Lextranet

PowerPoint

Prevail

Privilege Log

Project Management

Relativity

Ringtail

Stratify

Summation

Vaughn Index

ViewPoint

Word

Westlaw

Zantaz

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