Kristofer Ostrom
**** ****** *** ***** ********* Ranch, Colorado 80126
518-***-**** acqes5@r.postjobfree.com
BAR ADMISSION
Colorado – March 2015, Colorado Supreme Court
New York – June 2009, Appellate Division, Third Department
EDUCATION
Albany Law School (Union University) Albany, New York
Juris Doctor, Concentration in Business Law May 2008
Dean’s List: Spring 2008
Upper Level Writing Requirement: Executive Compensation/ERISA
The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP – Albany, New York 2010 – 2015
Staff Attorney
Reviewed hundreds of documents daily while coding for responsiveness, confidentiality, and privilege.
Reported weekly to firm associates any significant or hot documents for use in scheduled depositions.
Researched numerous documents for specific criteria using custodian, metadata, and issue search terms.
Securities Arbitration Clinic (Albany Law Clinic & Justice Center) – Albany, New York 2008 – 2009
Graduate Law Fellow
Conducted numerous intake interviews of potential clients to determine, in consultation with supervising attorney, whether case merit and clinic resources allowed for representation.
Performed extensive research on broker duties and securities law issues for statements of claim and discovery requests filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority during client representation.
Researched background of twelve brokers and non-industry personnel during arbitrator selection process.
U.S. Department of Labor (Employee Benefits Security Administration) – Washington, D.C. Summer 2007
Law Clerk
Compiled numerous training materials (presentations, Federal code interpretations) for compliance investigators examining investment advisor fees, prohibited transactions, gratuities, and commission rebates.
Consolidated watch lists of hundreds of enjoined fiduciaries for investigations of employer welfare plans.
Researched and wrote a memorandum on the constitutional privacy concerns of convicted fiduciaries.
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. – Colorado Springs, Colorado
2000 – 2005
Financial Services Representative
Processed unsolicited trades in investment company shares as a Series 6 & 63 registered broker.
Coordinated cash ledger reconciliation and contributions for several pension accounts including daily dividend postings, employee stock purchases, insider trading (fully disclosed), and loan amortizations.
Audited pension accounts including reconciliation of balances for fiscal reporting to regulatory agencies.
ACTIVITIES/INTERESTS
Painting (acrylic and oil), photography (black and white)
Hiking, camping and traveling (Morocco, Egypt, East Africa, Scandinavia, Turkey, and Thailand)