Experience

Law Clerk, Mergers & Acquisitions (Sep. 2022 – Present)

• Performs audits of royalty financings, debt financings, and asset purchase agreement provisions.

• Develops commercial contracts and purchase agreements to facilitate everyday business transactions.

• Assists with the facilitation of closing deals by managing checklists, monitoring and sending signature pages, assisting with diligence efforts, and performing close evaluations of contract terms.

Summer Associate, Technology & IP Transactions (May 2021 – Aug. 2021)

• Performed audits of royalty financings, debt financings, and asset purchase agreement provisions.

• Developed commercial contracts and purchase agreements to facilitate everyday business transactions.

• Assisted with the facilitation of closing deals by managing checklists, monitoring and sending signature pages, assisting with diligence efforts, and performing close evaluations of contract terms.

Student Attorney, Intellectual Property Patent Clinic I & II (Aug. 2020 – Present)

• Conducted interviews with clients to screen prospective clients for the patentability of their ideas.

• Performed research of prior art and potential bars to patentability for clients unable to obtain paid patent representation using Google Patents and the USPTO database.

• Compiled findings into Search Reports to be communicated with clients for the purpose of assessing clients' ability to proceed with a patent application.

• Served as the Patent Clinic's Representative to the CLC Executive Board.

Legal Intern, Ethics & Compliance (May 2020 – August 2020)

• Conducted an extensive review of the Foreign Corrupt Policy Act to create a proposal for improved readability of the company’s anti-corruption policies.

• Developed a spreadsheet formula in Excel to automatically detect policy provision violations for the purpose of proposing data-driven policy language modifications.

• Assessed the business risks and meaning of becoming a “real party in interest” during an inter partes review for the patent litigation team.

User Experience Specialist (Dec. 2017 – Jul. 2019)

• Led user behavior research and created data-driven proposals, mockups, and prototypes for user interface improvement on websites, information systems, and web applications. 

• Established conversational design for the implementation of a chatbot using secondary research which successfully alleviated call center traffic.

• Worked remotely alongside vendors to assist in drafting business needs documents, aiding in internal process improvement, collecting data, and managing end user issue tracking in Jira.

Digital Marketing Intern (May 2016 – Dec. 2017)

• Regularly created graphics using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to accompany training materials, social media posts, and company presentations for other internal departments.

• Regularly curated and revised written media content, ad copy, and internal communications.

• Assisted in user testing for an organization-wide system conversion as part of the Product Development team.

Product Development Intern (Sep. 2016 – Jan 2017)

• Conducted primary research using interviews and Qualtrics surveys to monitor demographic preferences and behaviors with regard to group work and collaboration.

• Used secondary research to report industry trends in online learning within a postsecondary setting.

• Created wireframes and curated research as part of an award-winning proposal for the creation of a web application to assist business law students in achieving academic success in online courses.

Sales Associate (Nov. 2017 – Feb. 2019)

• Worked closely with customers to determine needs and recommend solutions while maintaining the orderliness of assigned work areas in the store.

• Served as a college brand ambassador to promote stronger relationships between the J. Crew brand and undergraduate clientele.

• Frequently managed transactions and assisted in balancing drawers while assigned as cashier.

Sales Associate (Apr. 2015 – Jan. 2017)

• Managed fitting rooms to monitor and increase customer satisfaction while supporting loss prevention, maintaining area cleanliness, and encouraging customer engagement.

• Used outstanding customer service skills to assist in improving loss prevention and increase sales.

• Maintained up-to-date knowledge on products, pricing, and promotions as a means of cross-selling and upselling merchandise to customers.