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Areas of Practice
Transactional Law • Real Estate law • Commercial Litigation • Administrative Law • Public Finance

Employment
Greene and Letts, Chicago, Illinois, 2004 to present • Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, Chicago, Illinois, 2001 to 2004 • Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 2001

Experience
Assists in providing clients with corporate, business and professional services, including the formation of appropriate business entities • Municipal finance • Drafting and responding to pleadings, discovery, drafting pre-trial and post-trial memorandums and engaging in settlement negotiations • Serves as counsel for real estate transactions such as property acquisition, disposition, and landlord/tenant matters • Advises clients on matters pending under the Administrative Review Law, litigates matters before administrative bodies, as well as the circuit court under petitions for writ of certiorari • Serves as counsel to client with respect to the administration of a government-funded subsidy housing program

Education
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, J.D., 2002 • Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, B.A., English, 1996

Seminars and Presentations
Presenter, “The HAP Contract: Understanding the Legal Relationship Between CHAC, Inc. and Private Property Owners,” November 2005, December 2005 • Presenter, “Untangling the Web of Higher Education,” The Human Development Center, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2004, 2005, 2006 • Panelist, Law Night: “Knowing Your Rights and Responsibilities Under the Law,” St. Luke Church, 2004

Publications
Author, “Internet Ads: An Analysis of an Attorney’s Use of the Internet as an Advertising Medium and its Relation to Current Ethics Rules Governing Advertising,” 19 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 4

Awards and Honors
Cook County Bar Association, Junior Counselor Award, 2007 • Cook County Bar Association Presidential Award, 2006

Memberships
Chicago Bar Association, 2006 to present • Cook County Bar Association, 2006 to present • Illinois State University Attorney Advisory Board, 2006 to present

Professional Activities
Cook County Bar Association, Co-Chair, CCBA News, 2005 to present • Cook County Bar Association, Journal of Law & Society, Editorial Board, 2007 • National Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Editor, YLD Newsletter

Community Activities
Campaign Volunteer, Illinois State Senator Barack Obama for United States Senator, 2004 • The Human Development Center, Inc., Advisory Board (Recording Secretary), 2004 to present • Connections to the Future, Inc., Board of Directors (Treasurer), 2007 • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Iota Delta Lambda Chapter, 1997 to present