• Researched and prepared memos, Answers, Responses, Petitions, medical audits, correspondence, settlement brochures, discovery, and legal briefs in probate, land use, landlord tenant, contract, property, personal injury, and partnership matters.

• Prepared responsive pleadings including: answers, demurrers, and motions to strike.
• Conducted discovery including: propounding written discovery, preparing discovery responses, attending and taking depositions.
  § Order, review and summarize medical records, employment records, and insurance records.
• Met and confered with opposing counsel, and prepared correspondence to carriers and clients.
• Prepared Mediation Briefs.
• Attended case management conferences, trial setting conferences and ex parte hearings.
• Prepared trial documents including: expert designations, witness and exhibit lists, stipulated facts, motions in limine , trial briefs, jury instructions, and trial exhibits.
• Prepared and argued motions for summary judgment, motions to strike, and motions to compel.

• Researched and prepared bench memos for Motions for Summary Judgment
• Observed jury selection and trials

• Handled a caseload of thirty to forty misdemeanor cases, compiled and updated Post Conviction Relief outline and appendix to be published for Montana county attorneys
• Prepared affidavits, complaints, arrest warrants, and subpoenas, plea agreements, witness lists, exhibit lists, briefs in response to petitions for post conviction relief, motion to dismiss for lack of a speedy trial, and motions to suppress
• Performed plea negotiations, conducted three bench trials and two complete jury trials including voir dire, opening and closing statements, and questioning of all witnesses

• Class Rank: 30% Honor’s A: Land Use
• Legal Writing Teacher’s Assistant 2005-2007

• Cum Laude, President’s List, Dean’s List
• Gonzaga-in-Florence, Academic Year Abroad, 2001-2002

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