Practice focuses on complex litigation matters with emphasis on patent and intellectual property.

 
Relevant Experience

• Extensive experience in electronic discovery, collection, review and production of documents.
• Substantial experience in State and Federal Appellate Courts
• Prior experience in office management and client relationship development
• Extensive Trial experience to include:
  • Trial Paralegal - Patent holder in infringement litigation involving cable television technology. Obtained successful ruling following week-long trial on licensing issues leading to $72 million dollar settlement in favor of our client.
  • Trial Paralegal - In a civil RICO action litigation resulted in groundbreaking legal precedent relating to the use of racketeering laws to respond to union corporate campaigns.
  • Trial Paralegal - Patent Litigation involving hearing aid technology. The jury returned a verdict for client ETG, finding willful patent infringement and awarding damages of $31 million against two defendants.
  • Trial Paralegal for Patent Litigation and after obtaining summary judgment of non-infringement on majority of products at issue, settlement reached resulting in dismissal before trial.
• Assisted in development of firm’s Paralegal Handbook

Education
Paralegal Certificate, Paralegal Studies, University of Richmond, 1996

AAS, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, 1994