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EXPERIENCE
SMITH AND HERRINGTON
New York, NY
2013-Present
Associate, Litigation Department
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Represent clients in various stages of civil litigation. Draft briefs, complaints, pretrial motions, memoranda anddiscovery requests and responses.
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Second-chaired white collar crime trial involving an alleged moneylaundering scandal.
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Team member on class action lawsuit brought on behalf of homeless persons in the city of New York.
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Serve on pro bono committee.
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
Boston, MA
2012-2013
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Law clerk to Justice Arthur D. Stewart. Assisted Justice Stewart in all aspects of appellate practice, includingpreparing pre-argument memoranda, attending oral arguments, reviewing trial records and researching, editingand evaluating the legal analyses in drafts of written opinions.
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Assisted Justice Stewart in all aspects of appellate practice, includingpreparing pre-argument memoranda, attending oral arguments, reviewing trial records and researching, editingand evaluating the legal analyses in drafts of written opinions.
NOW LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND
Washington, D.C.
Summer 2011
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Assisted in pending federal district court litigation over the creation of an all male public education school inMichigan.
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Researched applicable state and federal law, drafted pretrial argument memoranda and filed adiscovery motion with the District Court.
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Drafted portions of an amicus brief for Supreme Court case involvingstate infringement of abortion rights.
CRABTREE, DEWEY AND DUNN
Palo Alto, CA
Summer 2010
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Summer associate in twenty-person firm specializing in venture capital work.
JAMAICA PLAIN LEGAL SERVICES
Jamaica Plain, MA
2010-2011
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Worked on appeals of landlord-tenant cases to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and assisted inrepresenting indigent clients in housing matters before the Rent Control Board.
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Appealed welfare benefitterminations.
WORLD WILDLIFE FEDERATION
Kenya
Summer 2009
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Helped establish joint U.S.-Kenya venture with private industry to fund wildlife preservation.
EDUCATION
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
J.D.
June 2012
Honors:
cum laude
Activities:
“Women and the Law,” Undergraduate Teaching Fellow
Harvard Women’s Law Journal, Articles Editor
Alliance for Public Interest Alternatives
DUKE UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Public Policy
June 2009
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
B.A. in Women’s Studies
June 2007
Honors:
cum laude
Activities:
Outward Bound, Team Leader
Edward Brooks Homeless Project
PUBLICATION
Women’s Legal Rights in the Workplace
journal paper
12 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 351 (2011).
BAR
Admitted to New York Bar in 1999. Member of American Bar Association Committee on Affordable Housingand Homelessness and New York Bar Association Pro Bono Task Force.
