Contract Attorney - Innovative Driven, LLP; Consilio Services; Legility Managed Review; Update Legal; Transperfect LLC; KL Discovery; Omnivere; Lexolution; Fronteo; DTI Global; Aud
(2007-04 - 2025-05)
- Conducted electronic document review of numerous cases for various issues. A few projects were paper document review. Worked in the discovery and ligation processes.
Reading Tutor - Kid Potential - Sarasota FL
(2024-04 - 2024-12)
Court Stringer - Robert Half Legal, ALM - Sarasota FL
(2023-08 - 2024-07)
- Perform research and analysis of civil cases filed in the Sarasota County Courthouse for client.
Temporary Court Clerk in Processing/Intake - Spehrion Staffing, Sarasota County Courthouse - Sarasota FL
(2023-03 - 2023-07)
- Worked processing both civil and criminal documents for the court as they arrived through various avenues.
Patent Law Attorney - Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC - New York, NY
(2007-08 - 2008-05)
- Practiced Patent Prosecution, U.S. and internationally; largely pharmaceutical and chemical patents.
- Managed docket and patent portfolios for numerous clients.
- Filed Patent Applications, provisional and non-provisional, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- Argued and prepared Responses to Office Actions for the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and abroad for foreign patent offices including Canada, Japan, Europe, India, Israel, Korea, Ukraine, and Mexico.
- Prepared Amendments, Preliminary Amendments and extensive Information Disclosure Statements.
- Conducted research on various current patent issues such as the "obviousness standard."
- Assisted Head Partner in due diligence and patent opinion work.
- Managed extensive interaction with the United States Patent and Trademark Office resolving issues, obtaining clarifications on procedures of the MPEP and overseeing client filings.
Intellectual Property Legal Externship - Gottlieb, Rackman & Reisman, P.C. - New York, NY
(2006-01 - 2006-04)
- Performed legal research and drafted memoranda on various intellectual property issues, including patent licensing and infringement.
- Participated in field investigation and research to determine counterfeiting and infringement upon client's trademark.
- Attended a deposition of plaintiff's witness in a design patent infringement suit.
- Conducted manual document review of various national and international patent and trademark documents.
- Organized U.S. and international patent and trademark applications, files and portfolios.
Law Intern - Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore - New York, NY
(2004-05 - 2004-10)
- Analyzed and summarized complex deposition transcripts.
- Reviewed medical charts and conducted manual document review.
- Researched and drafted memoranda on various legal and medical issues.
- Assisted in case preparation for trial and attended physician deposition.
- Refined technical issues for questioning witnesses at trial.
- Interviewed clients to obtain additional relevant medical information for cases.
Research Assistant (to Partner of firm) - Forizs & Dogali, P.L. - Tampa, FL
(2004-01 - 2004-04)
- Assisted in drafting, summarizing and editing chapters of Internet Pharmacy Law book for Food and Drug Administration.
- Conducted extensive research on national state laws governing internet pharmacies.
Law Clerk/Paralegal - Law Offices of Glenn Wurzel - Hempstead, NY
(2003-10 - 2004-03)
- Performed legal research and drafted legal memoranda for bankruptcy, civil procedure and medical malpractice cases.
- Filed court motions and legal court documents.
- Devised written correspondence to clients, the courts and other attorneys.
- Conducted manual document review.
- Prepared case complaints and answers.
Pharmacist
(1990-10 - 2011-10)
Practiced in various capacities and environments: Head Pharmacist, Pharmacist Manager, Retail Pharmacist, Relief Pharmacist, Hospital Pharmacist, and Home Infusion Clinical Pharmacist.
- Filled prescriptions, counseled patients, maintained pharmacy inventory and supervised pharmacy staff.
Drug Safety Specialist (Contract Position) - Schering Pharmaceuticals, Drug Safety Surveillance Department - Kenilworth, NJ
(1993-02 - 1993-06)
- Filed adverse drug reaction cases with Food and Drug Administration.
- Worked closely with legal department, in parallel to conducting extensive drug and drug interaction research via consumers, healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical companies domestically and overseas.
