Legal/Academic Work

June 10th, 2010
Of Counsel, Salloway Law Group, P.C. [www]
April 2009 -

Advising clients on potential claims and defenses. Conducting legal research in substantive areas including copyright, trademark, contracts, and real estate. Assisting out-of-state counsel with New York State procedural requirements. Evaluating strategic needs of the firm for acquisition and retention of clients, and expansion of business.

Litigation Associate, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP [www]
September 2005 – January 2009
Summer Associate, May-August 2004

Substantive areas included trademark disputes, internal investigations, complex financial and accounting litigation, securities litigation and contract arbitration. Conducted and defended depositions. Developed and implemented litigation strategies in collaboration with senior attorneys. Drafted pleadings, discovery requests and responses, motions, memoranda and correspondence. Analyzed documents, transcripts and other materials relating to clients’ claims and defenses. Individually represented pro bono clients in personal legal matters, such as Social Security appeals, asylum, divorce and child custody.

Representative matters included:

  • Defending international accounting firm in complex, large-scale fraud litigation arising from massive corporate bankruptcy
  • Investigating and seeking to shut down a wide-ranging products counterfeiting and distribution network on behalf of consumer products manufacturer
  • Conducting an internal investigation arising from allegations of stock options backdating at a medical services company
  • Evaluating potential claims and litigation risk arising from misrepresentations discovered after the conclusion of a merger agreement on behalf of major healthcare products manufacturer
  • Defending a major investment bank against a claw-back claim arising from large, complex bankruptcy, resulting in a favorable settlement.
  • Engaging in research and strategy on behalf of major consumer electronics manufacturer in contract-based arbitration.
  • Advising commercial real estate developer on options arising out of threatened default by major tenant.
LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law, Fordham Law School [www]
August 2009 – May 2010
Honors:
  • Staff, Volume XX, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal

J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School [www]
August 2002 – May 2005
Honors:
  • Articles Editor, Volume 7, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
  • Associate Editor, Volume 6, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
  • James Wilson Fellowship in Law and Technology

Co-curricular:

  • Criminal Law Research Group (Drafted and edited a new penal code, rules of criminal procedure, sentencing guidelines and prosecution guidelines for the Republic of the Maldives, a constitutionally Islamic nation, in addition to other projects as part of a faculty-supervised working group)

Public Service:

  • Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Economic and Cyber Crime Unit (Spring 2003)
  • ALI/ABA, Publications Office (Fall 2004)
  • National Constitution Center, Educational Office (Spring 2005)
A.B. in Public and International Affairs (Woodrow Wilson School), Princeton University [www]
September 1998 – June 2002
Senior Thesis:
  • Fences Rather than Walls: Targeting Policy as a Solution to Global Internet Jurisdiction Disputes (Assessed policy approaches to jurisdictional issues posed by the Internet)
Publications:

  • Copyright Enforcement in the Cloud, 21 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. — (forthcoming 2011)
  • Co-author, Codifying Shari’a: International Norms, Legality and the Freedom to Invent New Forms, 2 J. COMP. L. (UK) 1 (2007) [pdf]
  • Comment, A Vintage Conflict Uncorked: The 21st Amendment, The Commerce Clause, And The Fully-Ripened Fight Over Interstate Wine And Liquor Sales, 7 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 279 (2004) [pdf]

Bar & Court Admissions/Professional Affiliations

  • New York, admitted 1/2006
  • New Jersey, admitted 12/2005
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • American Bar Association [www]
  • New York State Bar Association [www]
  • New York City Bar [www]
  • New Jersey State Bar Association [www]
  • Copyright Society of U.S.A. [www]
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