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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name , ESQ.EMAIL AVAILABLEEMAIL AVAILABLEPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEBAR ADMISSIONS: District of Columbia; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, DC Bar # Street Address 7; Pennsylvania (ret). PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association (ret.).I. CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION EXPERIENCEAttorney, Private Practice: Concentration in Federal and Private Sector EEO Administrative Proceedings, 2000 to 2013. Contract Attorney (2000-2013) for various law firms and national EEO contract firms in the conducting of EEO Investigations on and off the record; wrote Reports of Investigations (ROIs) and Final Agency Decisions (FADs) for 25 Federal agencies; wrote Letters of Determination (LODs) for the Government of the District of Columbia; deposed witnesses on the record; wrote interrogatories; represented clients before administrative tribunals and the EEOC. Focus: Title VI and Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1975, Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Bilingual Education Act of 1974, as codified in Equal Education Opportunity Act of 1974 and Title VI.Attorney-Advisor, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C., 1993-2000. Wrote legal memoranda and Attorneys Opinions for Assistant Secretary of Army on various issues including section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; served as EEO Counselor from 1993-2000; participated in settlement negotiations in dispute resolution of informal employment discrimination complaints; assisted Agency EEO Officers with developing and implementing proactive measures to improve the agencys compliance with civil rights laws and objectives.Attorney-Advisor, Louisville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville, Kentucky, 1989-1992. Represented Army personnel in Title VII administrative hearings. Conducted major research for Agency compliance with laws requiring program access for individuals with disabilities, Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; wrote agency position paper on complaint filed by one of Candidate's Name , ESQ.Corps lessees at Wax Marina at Nolin Lake, Kentucky, with the U.S. Architectural & Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, Washington, D.C. Presented subject position paper at the Division Counsel Conference, 1992, Cincinnati, Ohio., II. APPELLATE EXPERIENCEAppellate Counsel, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Washington, D.C., 2008 to 2013. Member of Criminal Justice Act Panel, prepared appellant briefs and oral arguments before court. This appointment enabled me to utilize my specialized ability to analyze, interpret case law, apply regulations, agency orders, and to utilize electronic and manual legal research tools, writing, and oral communication skills. I functioned independently as cases were assigned.Attorney-Advisor, Board of Veterans Appeals, Bureau of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C., 1987. Researched legal and medical issues necessary to draft appellate decisions for the Board regarding veteran claimants entitlement to veterans benefits; reviewed evidentiary record to determine the proper appellate issues; noted and responded to disposition of appellate issues, formulated Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law; rendered a judgment; participated in administrative hearings. Law Clerk, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., May-August 1984. Clerked in the Commissions Bureau of Competition/Antitrust Division, which dealt with regulating the professions, exclusive of healthcare. Researched and analyzed extensively: (1) the issue of whether the attorneys striking for higher pay in Superior Court Trial Lawyers Association, Dkt.9171, as members of a learned profession, committed potential anti- trust violations involving Section I of the Sherman Antitrust Act; and (2) whether the attorneys, as members of a learned profession, were exempt from regulation, a point of law grounded in Footnote 17 of Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar, 421 U.S. 773, 781-85(1975). FTC Litigation Experience: assisted the trial team write and verify findings of fact in Dkt. 9171.III. INTERNATIONAL.Education: School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT. Graduate studies in Masters Degree Program of International Administration. Focus: economic, agricul- tural, natural resource issues in developing countries; fulfilled international internship requirement working in Brussels, Belgium.Participated in Department of Nuclear Studies Program, American University, Wash- ington, D.C., 2011-2017: traveled to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Tokyo led by Professor 2Candidate's Name , ESQPeter Kuznick, Head of Americans Nuclear Studies Institute, and co-author with film director Oliver Stone, The Untold History of the United States (2012, 2019); 3 trips to Russia to celebrate and march in their WWII Victory Parade where, as US ally, they helped to win WWII with their loss of 78 million lives. University-Brussels School of Management, Brussels, Belgium. Focus: organizational management and behavior, statistics and international business. Experiment in International Living, Brattleboro, VT. Outbound Exchange Program to Brazil for 4 months. Credits earned in Portuguese and Cross-cultural studies. Foreign Languages: Spanish, French, PortugueseIII. EDUCATIONJuris Doctor, Howard University School of Law, Washington, D.C., May 1985. Admitted to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bar, Nov. 1985; DC Bar Admission Dec. 2005. Bachelor of Arts, Spanish, English and the Humanities, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.Graduate Courses for ESL (English as a Second Language) Certification: The Catholic University of America and Trinity University, Washington, D..C. 2001-2002..References and Writing Samples upon request.3 |
