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NORTON T. GAPPY

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EMAIL: adorkk@r.postjobfree.com

HOME: 248-***-**** * MOBILE: 586-***-****

PERSONAL SUMMARY: Driven, focused, and detail-oriented with two decades of experience. Excels at leveraging experience, legal research, close collaboration with colleagues and clients to avoid or win litigation at both the trial court and appellate court levels in either the state or federal systems. Able to expertly manage, prioritize, accomplish, or delegate tasks as a situation demands to ensure completion, clarity, efficiency, accuracy, and professionalism in all areas of work. Able to adapt to handle quickly, positively, and successfully resolve, or otherwise defuse stressful, unanticipated, or erratic situations. Well rounded, trustworthy, persuasive, and skilled in a variety of areas of law. Represents clients in civil, criminal, and administrative proceedings, and has successfully litigated, settled, or avoided multi-million-dollar burden positions. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Dates: September 2005 – Current.

Attorney, Norton T. Gappy, P.C., 3525 Rochester Road, Troy, Michigan 48083. DUTIES:

Successfully represents small to large size companies and corporate startups or growth projects, mergers, acquisitions, expansions, consolidations, and other related or similar projects.

Effectively represents clients in matters involving land acquisitions, planning, zoning, and development, and commercial litigation, and risk and issue assessments related thereto.

Proficiently counsels/advises clients on employment and tax issues or implications and risk issues.

Proficiently advises and counsels clients, attorneys, or personnel regarding complex legal issues, including, business/commercial/land/employment/ insurance/tax and compliance issues, and other potential burden or prevention issues, e.g., insurance, coverage (personal and collective liability), employee, contract and otherwise, including civil and criminal compliance issues, risk assessment, social media liability, contractual obligations, and multiple other litigation or client concerns.

Successful and effective development of company policies, procedures, and policy implementation, application, execution, and counsel as to legal and ethical duties/considerations or accountability.

Effectively supports and advises on compliance and issues related to state Blue Sky Laws, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1933 and 1934 (SEC Act(s)), the Family and Medical Leave Act

(FMLA), Whistle Blowers’ Protection Act (WPA), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Truth In Lending Act (TILA), Fair Credit Reporting Act

(FCRA), Bank Securities Act (BSA), the Unfair, Deceptive or Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP), Dodd-Frank Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Truth in Adverting Act, and other similar frameworks effecting individual or firm liability, risk, or compliance, as situationally applicable).

Effectively reviews or helps design/develop company policies, procedures, and policy implementation, application, execution, and counsel as to legal and ethical duties/considerations or accountability for social media guidelines on behalf of an organization or individuals, as necessary.

Proficiently and effectively able to gather, compile, organize, investigate, classify, categorize, prioritize, analyze, outline, define, defend, litigate, inspect, or develop, and present evidence or information on behalf of, or at the request of, or in defense of clients in criminal/civil/ administrative and regulatory proceedings and/or before corporation members and principals.

Effectively identifies, investigates, develops, explores, proffers, classifies, categorizes, delineates, scrutinizes, analyzes, and formulates case arguments, strategy with a comprehensive approach and presentation in civil/criminal/administrative and regulatory proceedings, whether at the negotiation stage, trial stage, or the appellate stage at both the state and federal levels. 2

Effectively and clearly presents, scrutinizes, analyzes, explores, predicts, and determines conceivable outcomes relating to case strategy, or project/land or business development with or on behalf of clients or as a risk assessment presentation to a governing tribunal or group, or others in interest.

Successfully negotiates, drafts, edits, interprets, clarifies, and translates a broad range of contracts, agreements, proposals, requests, bids, offers, arrangements, and other legal documents, writings, and filings or submissions, whether for purposes of statutory or legal doctrine compliance, implication, or oblations, duties, or rights of a party (for purposes of understanding, limiting or expanding any of the preceding, as a situation requires), and for ethical, moral, or other responsibility and accountability issues, concerns, or considerations that may affect firm, individual, or group interests.

Successfully represents clients throughout the legal system in either an adversarial or advocacy role.

Proficiently advises company management, and others in interest, on its legal affairs; liability, deficiencies, competencies, legal/ethical responsibility, and accountability issues, civil and criminal.

Proficiently helps, design, maintain, and update employment policies and counsels to ensure compliance with employment/employee/contractor issues from a legal, ethical, or moral perspective.

Proficiently aids/advises clients as to developing, sourcing, negotiating with contract management, bid processes, contractors/suppliers/vendors/developers, and similar employment relationship.

Successfully assists, negotiates, and advises clients regarding interim financing loans, lines of credit, leasing, bridge financing, real property and equipment, construction and long term or consolidated loans prior to the start of a project, during the project development phases and after.

Experienced insurance coverage/liability litigation and risk assessments, counseling, and advice.

Experienced and effective negotiating, drafting, preparation, review, scrutiny, interpretation, editing, and counseling clients concerning various financing documents, and a broad range of other contracts/agreements, including underlying obligations, risk assessments and otherwise.

Effectively acts as a liaison between a company’s directors/managers or other personnel, including shareholders for purposes of updates, changes, ratifications, dispute resolution, and otherwise.

Successfully aids in implementation, negotiation, securing, and maintaining institutional financial lines for long- and short-term business planning and risk assessments related thereto.

Successfully defends or prosecutes matters on appeal, including the necessary posttrial motions, appellate briefing, and effective trial/tribunal and appellate court arguments (state and federal).

Effective office/business staffing, management, delegation, counseling, scheduling, dispute resolution, reviewing, and budgeting for attorneys/non-attorneys/contract attorneys/vendors/supplies and others, and implementation of successful workflow processes.

Successful office budgeting, and execution of day-to-day operations under typical and extreme pressure situations/circumstances, e.g., deadlines, or erratic events, e.g., sickness and otherwise.

Effective mentoring, educating, counseling, training, and advising of junior attorneys and others. Dates: November 1998 – August 2005.

Appellate Attorney, John P. Jacobs, P.C. – Detroit, Michigan (Appellate practice and trial support).

[Student associated from 1998-November 2002].

DUTIES:

Effectively and regularly accomplished detailed, and complex legal research, briefing and other tasks.

Functionally effective transcript review, summary, issue identification, argument development, identification, implementation, outlining, and issue assessments. requirements.

Effectively drafted a wide variety of briefs and trial court motions, pre- and post-trial.

Effectively drafted a wide variety of appellate court motions, applications for leave, appellate briefs, reply and response briefs, and interlocutory briefs on appeal at both the state and federal levels.

Successfully conducted oral arguments in both the sated and federal trial courts and appellate courts.

Successful second chaired trials for litigation support in anticipation of appeal (issue identification, development, and preservation, strategy, planning, preparation, and advice to counsel and client. 3

Effectively conducted client meetings, case updates with clients, and strategy consultations regarding both a trial court matter, appellate court matters, or a trial court matter being prepared or positioned in anticipation of appeal and other pre- and post-trial event(s).

Effectively and efficiently managed daily operations of the office, its staff, contractors/contract attorneys/contract staff, suppliers, vendors, office billings and a wide variety of other duties, obligations, responsibilities, in lieu of the managing partner, in addition to meeting requirements for billable hours as an attorney and maintaining the timeliness of obligations of an assigned caseload. EDUCATION:

JURIS DOCTOR:

University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Detroit, Michigan- degree earned: May 12, 2002.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION:

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan- degree earned: December 17, 1998. LANGUAGES SPOKEN FLUENTLY:

English.

Chaldean.

ADMISSIONS:

State Bar of Michigan- admitted: November 12, 2002.

Supreme Court of the United States- admitted: July 22, 2013.

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit- admitted: June 4, 2003.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit- admitted: July 24, 2003.

United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan- admitted: May 27, 2003.

United States District Court, Western District of Michigan- admitted: May 30, 2003.

United States Tax Court- admitted: July 21, 2003.

United States Court of International Trade- admitted: July 21, 2013. HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS:

2020- Lawyers of Distinction, Excellence in Appellate Law.

2020- Lawyers of Distinction, Excellence in Corporate and Transactional Law.

2017- Lawyers of Distinction, Civil Litigation, Top 10% in the USA.

2016- Michigan Top Lawyers, Achievement and Success in Business Law.

2012- Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, Excellence in Practice.

2007- Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama, Certificate of Appreciation.

2005- Order of the Barristers, Excellence in Courtroom Advocacy.

2004- Michigan Lawyers Weekly, Up and Coming Lawyers. CORE SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

A willingness and ability to work hours other than standard business hours and extended hours.

Experienced, proficient, skilled negotiator with sound judiciousness.

Experienced and proficient public speaking skills; cogent and persuasive.

Experienced and proficient investigative and problem-solving skills.

Experienced and proficient legal writing skills, and strong analytical abilities.

Proficiency in prioritizing and executing several complex tasks simultaneously.

Focuses in extreme stress situations and adapts effectively to a situational crisis until resolved.

Experienced and skilled legal research, writing, and argument skills, and abilities.

Excellent interpersonal skills; sound, honest judgment, trustworthy, and reliable.

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