Special Counsel, Austin, Texas 

Research Attorney, Contract

May 2015 - February 2016

• Research case law hyperlinks to laws ensuring they resolved to the correct documents and subsections in an online commercial legal database

• Perform quality assurance for 21 states and federal: statutes, court rules and regulations

• Collaborate with other research attorneys to identify complicated citation formats in case law

Special Counsel, Austin, Texas 

Research Attorney, Contract

May 2015 - February 2016

• Analyze SEC filings to determine the nature and intent of each document

• Classify filings by content and purpose to ease discovery in an online research database

• Identify common clauses in merger documents to support a new online research 

Special Counsel, Austin, Texas

Research Attorney, Contract

June 2014 - April 2015

• Analyze a variety of opinions including labor and patent cases to determine the significance of particular excerpts and the role they play within the case

• Classify various portions of legal opinions according to their legal purpose for usage in an online legal research database

• Evaluate legal citations and identify unique formats according to specified guidelines

 

Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin

Tarlton Fellow

Sept. 2012 – May 2014

• Provided in-person, email and instant messaging reference to patrons

• Guided patrons in the use of electronic and print legal resources

• Contributed to, updated and reviewed online research guides utilizing Lib Guides

• Publicized library services by providing tours and through promotional events

• Wrote blog entries to notify patrons of available services and events

• Taught administrative law and case law research in an advanced legal research course

• Evaluated cross-discipline journal collection and provided weeding recommendations

• Researched legal topics to support faculty instruction and scholarly endeavors

• Implemented improvements to the organization of the bound Supreme Court documents

• Provided collection management recommendations for the journal collection

• Contributed to online research guides utilizing LibGuides software

 

Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin

Digitization Intern

Jan 2014 – May 2014

• Created digital scans of 1960-1964 yearbooks to be preserved in a dark archive

• Edited images with Photoshop and performed OCR utilizing ABBYY Fine Reader

• Created digital collection in CONTENTdm to enable future online access

• Chose and applied appropriate metadata to each yearbook page

 

Information & Culture: A Journal of History, School of Information

Volunteer

Sept. 2013 - May 2014

• Copy-Edited 3 book reviews

• Page proof edited article directly before publication

 

Deloitte, Austin, Texas (previously IE Discovery) 

Discovery Associate

Intermittently 2010- Aug. 2012 

• Summarized transcripts to facilitate the client’s preparation for litigation

• Examined documents for legally privileged or work product information for withholding

• Analyzed legal documents to determine if they fulfill court production requests