My Story
My private practice follows nearly two decades of public service experience with civil litigation, criminal defense, and appellate practice.
Federal Public Defender Experience
For nearly 10 years, I was employed as an Assistant Federal Public Defender and my experience included representing Alabama’s death-row inmates in their post-conviction appeals as well as defending the gamut of federal criminal cases. In the course of this practice, I have investigated and litigated a vast array of federal statutory, regulatory, and constitutional issues across the span of hundreds of federal criminal cases, numerous federal jury trials, and hundreds of federal appeals. My work as an Assistant Federal Public Defender spanned five districts in Georgia, Alabama, and Connecticut, and involved a diverse group of clients ranging from impoverished and disadvantaged individuals to investment brokers and advisers, bank officers, real estate developers, physicians, foreign government officials, and U.S. government officials.
Federal Court Experience
Following my experience as a federal public defender, I spent 8 years as the career law clerk for a federal judge in the Northern District of California. That position entailed performing all of the research and writing necessary for the preparation and composition of the court’s orders and opinions in a broad array of civil litigation matters including dispositive motions seeking either dismissal or summary judgment, administrative appeals from federal agencies, discovery disputes, matters relating to extraordinary relief, and post-judgment litigation. The areas of law involved ran the entire range that one might encounter in a busy federal court including intellectual property (patent, trademark, and copyright infringement cases), antitrust, product liability, civil rights cases, employment and labor disputes, class actions, prison litigation, suits involving the United States, suits against municipalities, suits involving Native American tribes, suits involving foreign parties, and suits involving state law issues where the parties were from different states or countries.