Legal Intern Research Fellow

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Education

Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, Michigan. (Fall 2018 – Spring 2021)

Juris Doctor 2021

Licensed to practice law in Kentucky, Indiana license pending.

Recipient of the Best Brief Award and semi-finalist in oral argument competition for MSU Advocacy Competition

GPA 3.11

University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. (Spring 2016 – Spring 2018)

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a specialization in Law and Public Policy (3.85 GPA), a degree program that is designed to develop students’ capacity for critical thinking, oral and written communications, data analysis, and the use of information technology.

Rhodes Scholar Nominee – One of two students nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship to study International Relations

George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia (Summer 2017)

Earned credits for a certificate for Special Topics in Leadership

University of Oxford, Somerville, Oxford, United Kingdom. (Summer 2016)

Studied Politics with Oxford Summer Courses, participated in both intense tutorials as well as demanding seminars.

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. (Fall 2015)

Studied Humanities, Politics, and Philosophy (3.6 GPA), wanting to find a subject of study that both challenged me and enabled me to develop my analytical reasoning skills.

Undergraduate Mock Trial

Presentations

Presenter at The Heritage Foundation (Washington D.C., USA)

Presentation Title – Study in National Security and Counter Terrorism to Klon Kitchen (Senior Research Fellow) and Nile Gardiner (Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom)

Presenter at The Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington D.C., USA)

Presentation Title – Analysis of the Progress of Health Care and Economic Development to Romina Bandura (Senior Fellow for the Project on Prosperity and Development)

Presenter at Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing, China)

Presentation Title – Introduction of American Politics to students and Professor Zhai Zheng Ph.D

to Romina Bandura (Senior Fellow for the Project on Prosperity and Development)

Presenter at Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service (Vladivostok, Russian Federation)

Presentation Title – Introduction to the American Capitalist System to Russian students of Management

Completed the Harvard Law School Negotiation Workshop (Louisville, Kentucky)

Administered by Michael Fowler, J.D., author of Mastering Negotiations and expert in negotiations, international relations, drug trafficking law, and U.S. Foreign Policy

International Experiences

Japan Study Abroad, Kyoto, Japan. (Summer 2019)

Studying courses in International Business Transaction and International Commercial Arbitration and Litigation at Doshisha University Law School

International Scholar Laureate Program, The Delegation of International Relations and Diplomacy,

Beijing/Xi’an/Shanghai, China. (Summer 2017)

Analyzed Chinese policy regarding America and Europe within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Shanghai Institute of International Studies

Hogan Lovells, LLC., Louisville, Kentucky. (Winter 2021 – Summer 2022)

Attorney

Worked primarily on large due diligence projects for corporate clients in Mergers and Acquisitions deals.

Required excellent organizational skills, time management, and planning. I collaborated with team members in creating and organizing excel and word documents to present large quantities of data regarding technical legal issues.

Gained experience working in a high-intensity position

The Port of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. (Summer 2015 – Winter 2021)

Director of Technology

Process incoming commodity packing lists, ensure intermodal availability, and organize outbound commodities.

Constant communication between the consignee and consignor of commodities to ensure materials are transported efficiently and correctly.

Created a new, interactive website that allows prospective partners to easily learn about and contact managers.

Current obligations include:

o maintaining the domain and servers linked to the Port of Louisville system, ensuring that communication mechanisms always run smoothly and the company continues to evolve with the ever-changing technological demands that entrepreneurial companies face.

oProcessing incoming and outgoing commodity lists.

oOrdering intermodal transport types to ensure commodities are able to be moved.

oReview dozens of contracts each week for the Port.

oCommunicate with customers, vendors, etc.

oCommunicate with upper management concerning incoming and outgoing volume.

oParticipate in economic development planning with the City of Louisville

oIf there is a problem, figure out a cost effective and efficient solution to ensure no lost business.

Goldman and Associates (Fall 2020 – Winter 2020)

Legal Intern working primarily on Divorce, Child Custody and Support, and Temporary Restraining order cases, but have experience with criminal cases and International Divorce proceedings.

Gained experience working in a medium to large firm, which requires excellent communication and cooperation in order to ensure client satisfaction and efficient processing of cases.

Shafer & Associates, P.C. (Fall 2019 –Spring 2020)

A law firm which specializes in First Amendment protections, I worked there as a Legal Intern with a focus on constitutional protections for adult entertainers and sexually oriented businesses. A research intense position, I spent much of my time developing effective arguments to challenge ordinances, statutes, and laws which abridge First Amendment rights.

Participated in writing the brief which was awarded a national injunction by the Sixth Circuit court of Appeals against enforcement of PPP loan restrictions against sexually Oriented Businesses as wrongfully adopted by the SBA. See DV Diamond Club of Flint, LLC v. SBA, 960 F.3d 743 (6th Cir. 2020).

Licensures

Licensed to practice law in Indiana and Kentucky

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