Experience

CHAPA LAW GROUP P.C.

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Attorney

  • May 2019 - Present

  I represent individuals in cases involving wrongful death, catastrophic injury, and products liability. We take a client-centered approach to ensure that our clients are rightfully compensated for the negligence of employers and corporations.



Ryley Carlock & Applewhite

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate

  • Sep 2016 - May 2019

  Phoenix, Arizona Area Member of the Litigation Practice Group, working with the firm's litigators on a wide variety of commercial and civil litigation matters. Notable projects have included working on civil racketeering, water rights litigation, and breach of contract litigation.

• Summer Associate; Law Clerk

  • Jan 2015 - Aug 2015

  Phoenix, Arizona Area • Assisted firm attorneys in research, memorandum writing, pleadings, and motion drafting in practice areas related to commercial litigation, employment law, environmental law, and corporate law. •Crafted memorandums relating to mercantile agency liability, state immunity involving tort claims, Arizona public records law, attorney’s fees recovery under Arizona law, and new statutory private rights of action.



United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

• Law Clerk

  • Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  Phoenix, Arizona Area •Researched federal and administrative case law and wrote legal inter-office memos relating to the adjudication of I-130 family based petitions and jurisdiction of the Board of Immigration Appeals. •Reviewed the Record of Proceedings of a petitioner’s denial and created a detailed evidence checklist used to supplement the government’s case against petitioner in federal district court.



Teach For America

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• New Mexico Corps Member; High School American History Teacher

  • Aug 2011 - May 2013

  Crownpoint, NM •Created objective-driven American History unit plans and lesson plans for 90 students, resulting in 61% growth as measured by the McKinley County District Test, based on New Mexico State Standards. •Selected as 1 of 4,500 from approximately 46,000 Teach For America applicants nationwide.