Experience

Dworken & Bernstein Co., LPA

• United States
• Legal Services

• Associate Attorney

  • Oct 2013 - Present

  Class action responsibilities include developing potential cases, making determinations as to the legal and financial viability of these complex, high-stakes actions, typically valued in seven- to nine-figure range. Have developed, filed, and had active hands-on litigation role in dozens of class cases in dozens of state and federal jurisdictions. Occupy a front-end role geared towards developing and filing class actions; and then substantively facilitate all stages of class litigation, including drafting pleadings and briefs, discovery and discovery responses, research memoranda, investigatory projects, hearings, mediations, and the like. Identify and vet potential experts (consulting and/or testifying) for class cases. Routine, hands-on management and training of legal staff including paralegals, secretaries, law clerks, research attorneys, and research assistants, all done in order to ensure completion of daily tasks and execution of big picture strategy and operational litigation responsibilities, all across diverse substantive areas of our class action practice. Have written, reviewed, and edited dozens of pleadings and briefs, including complaints and all motion practice relevant to class action practice (briefs in opp to MTDs/MSJs/mots. to compel arbitration; mots. for class certification, court of appeals briefs both on behalf of appellant and appellee, amicus briefs, mediation briefs, settlement demands, settlement agreements, motions for preliminary/final approval, etc.). Practice area involves consumer protection law (fraud, warranty, UDAAP, etc.), the TCPA, employment law, ERISA/benefits law, tax law, insurance law, and everything in between.



Jones Day

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contract Attorney

  • Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

  Short term project. Reviewed corporate communications, accounting instruments, departmental policies and procedures, and SEC filings of a publicly-traded billion-dollar company in response to regulatory inquiries related to corporate disclosures, accounting practices, and compliance. Promoted to quality control management team, which involved QCing attorney work with an eye on reducing error-rate and managing first-level attorneys tactfully and effectively. Extensive eDiscovery experience.



The Law Office of Schwartz and Associates

• Attorney

  • Feb 2013 - May 2013

  Ensured proper service, prepared civil pleadings and motions, coordinated with opposing counsel, advocated at MDJ, MSJ, Pre-Trial, CMC, and Mediation hearings, and timely managed a litigation portfolio, working each case from inception through and to judicial disposition or settlement, all in a high-volume practice. Ensured proper service, prepared civil pleadings and motions, coordinated with opposing counsel, advocated at MDJ, MSJ, Pre-Trial, CMC, and Mediation hearings, and timely managed a litigation portfolio, working each case from inception through and to judicial disposition or settlement, all in a high-volume practice.



Beckmen, Cherkassky, Dean & Assoc.

• Attorney

  • Oct 2011 - Jan 2013

  Examined, interpreted, and reviewed real estate instruments to determine nature of property ownership, and advised corporate energy clients on the associated legal and regulatory risk of their development operations on said property. Analyzed the substantive legal issues pertaining to formation, enforcement, and interpretation of these instruments. Drafted/Reviewed hundreds of opinions for corporate clients, all in compliance with Ohio and Federal Law and Regulations. Asked by management to conduct training sessions for newly hired attorneys and review opinions, which involved evaluating, editing and giving constructive feedback to drafting Attorneys, all as a final level of review before the opinions were submitted to the clients.



Orange Energy Consultants, LLP

• Senior Landman

  • Sep 2011 - Jan 2013

  Investigated, created, and reviewed land title reports in fast-paced, goal-driven title operation. Promoted to review title agent work and give constructive feedback to ensure accurate and efficient completion of company goals. Conducted training of newly hired abstractors and title agents. Investigated, created, and reviewed land title reports in fast-paced, goal-driven title operation. Promoted to review title agent work and give constructive feedback to ensure accurate and efficient completion of company goals. Conducted training of newly hired abstractors and title agents.



O'Neill for Congress 2010

• Deputy Director of Field Operations

  • May 2010 - Nov 2010

  My role involved selling the candidate to voters and crafting a narrative of the candidate's platform that would resonate with and motivate potential donors, volunteers, and voters. Created and implemented a strategy to effectively identify likely donors, track big-picture and individualized donation development, and grow the donor base. Conducted training sessions with volunteers, whom I managed, on canvassing and phonebanking techniques, all according to targeted voter reports we developed through voter database management. Steady contact with diverse constituencies, professionally accommodating their inquiries in line with campaign goals. Planned, coordinated, and attended all field events.



University Hospital/Case Western Reserve University

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Grant Writer

  • Sep 2007 - Mar 2008

  Under the supervision of the research psychiatrist Dr. Maria Pagano, researched, prepared, and wrote a $900,000 grant request, which will be used to fund a three-year longitudinal addiction recovery research program. Researched, wrote, and edited several drafts of the grant and a scholarly journal article, including a theory of social change, longitudinal cost-benefit analysis, downstream media dissemination plan, and methods/measures sections. On May 4, 2009, it was announced by Case Western Reserve University that the John Templeton Foundation awarded this grant to Dr. Pagano in the amount of $942,307.