ISLN:  912884507
Of Counsel

Practice Areas
Employment Law; Wrongful Termination; Employment Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Retaliatory Discharge; Whistleblower Litigation; Wage and Hour Law; Family and Medical Leave Act; Executive Employment Law; Employment Contracts; Covenants Not To Compete; Civil Rights; Constitutional Law; First Amendment Law; Fourth Amendment Law; Privacy Law; Libel, Slander, and Defamation; Intentional Torts; Civil Litigation; Trial Practice; Appellate Litigation

Admitted: 1997, Maryland (inactive); 2000, District of Columbia; 2003, New York; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; U.S. District Court, District of Columbia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second and Fourth Circuits

Law School: Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., magna cum laude, 1997

College: Princeton University, A.B., cum laude, 1990; Vanderbilt University, M.Ed., Social Studies, 1992

Member: New York State Bar Association; New York City Bar Association; Brooklyn Bar Association; Federal Bar Council; Eastern District Association

Biography: Assistant U.S. Attorney, Civil Division, Eastern District of New York, 2004-2008; Associate, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, 2002-2004; Associate, Covington & Burling, 2000-2002; Law Clerk to Hon. Catherine C. Blake, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, 1998-1999; Law Clerk to Hon. Paul V. Niemeyer, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1997-1998; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School; author, “Gilmer, the Contractual Exhaustion Doctrine, and Federal Statutory Employment Discrimination Claims,” 19 Labor Lawyer 285 (2004); “Turning the Supremacy Clause on its Head: Bell Atlantic Maryland, Inc. v. Prince George’s County,” 51 Catholic Univ. Law Review 191 (2001); “Ellerth and Faragher: Towards Strict Employer Liability Under Title VII for Supervisory Sexual Harassment,” 2 Univ. of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 303 (1999); “Opposing Jury Nullification: Law, Policy, and Prosecutorial Strategy,” 85 Georgetown Law Journal 191 (1996); Associate Editor, Georgetown Law Journal; Order of the Coif; National Merit Scholar