Respected and tough litigator with a reputation for tenacity and knowledge of the law.

• Represent clients in family law matters ranging from pre- and post judgment issues.
• Allocation of of parental responsibilities, child support, interstate and international custody, step-parent adoption, dependency and neglect, show cause and enforcement matters
• Petitions for magistrate review, and all levels of appellate work.
• Practice ranges from high asset dissolutions to tangential family law criminal practice.

Maintained a caseload of highly contested family law matters in the Denver Office of Cordell and Cordell, a national domestic firm with 100 offices across 36 states.

• Oversaw matters relating to Dissolution, Child Custody and Support from the intake stage through permanent orders including, but not limited to reviewing and analyzing financial documents, drafting, filing pleadings, implementing discovery plans and conducting discovery and working though, and all aspects of pre-trial litigation.
• Conducted settlement conferences, emergency hearings, restriction hearings, protection order, contempt, and temporary and permanent orders hearings.

Represented clients seeking criminal defense and maintained active civil litigation practice.

• Defended clients charged with felony and misdemeanor offenses and negotiated favorable plea deals or took the matter to trial.
• Managed civil caseload such as contract disputes and managed the case from prelitigation demand letters through trial or through mediation and successfully resolved the matter in an amenable manner to the client. Negotiated favorable settlements or went to trial.
• Oversaw Intellectual Property practice and worked on copyright related matters.

Led transactional practice and represented individuals in civil litigation and criminal defense matters.

• Advised business clients on entity formation, governance, and dissolution. Negotiated, drafted, and interpreted contracts, licensing, trademark, complex technology, and SaaS agreements. Resolved contractual issues, developed contracts, terms of use, and privacy agreements.
• Represented plaintiffs and defendants in civil matters from intake through trial at both the state and federal level.
• Provided criminal defense representation to those charged with felony and misdemeanors.

Managed cases from pre-suit to judgement in a commercial litigation firm dedicated to areas of business and commercial law, civil litigation, collections, creditors’ rights, construction law, contract, and judgment enforcement.

The Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization providing customized research services such as information technology services, applied social research, scientific polling, and rigorous program evaluation, on policy issues for both public and private clients.

• Developed software and web applications, managed hardware, oversaw licensing agreements, ensured adherence to terms of service. Drafted center’s HIPAA,  HITECH-compliance and privacy policies.

• Developed the Wyoming Drug Court Supervised Treatment Information Management System (WyCST), an online software application designed to assist drug courts manage data, workflow, and generate comprehensive reports for state-level oversight.

Assistant Research scientist at FCRR, a multidisciplinary research center focused on child literacy and early development for pre-K through 12th grade children, operating in a politically charged atmosphere subject to government, media, and public scrutiny.

Academics, Competitions, and Student Leadership

• Hirst Applegate Trial competition, Client Counseling competition, Voir Dire, and Moot Court competitions. Intellectual Property Club, and Faculty Recruitment Committee.

Practical Skills Training

• Prosecution Assistance Clinic: Briefed cases, appeared and represented the State in the First and Second Districts. Argued before the Wyoming Supreme Court. McGarvey v. State, 2014 WY 66, 325 P.3d 450 (Wyo. 2014).
• Summer Trial Institute: Graduated from an intensive summer trial skills course led by national litigators.
• Innocence Project: Reviewed cases, testimony, evidence, and drafted pleadings.

Major: Political Science

Minors: Psychology and Computer Science.