Research and briefing
Research substantive and procedural questions; draft pleadings, motions, memoranda, affidavits, and other filing-ready work under supervising counsel.
Litigation
Understand the record.
Find the point that matters.
My experience spans civil and criminal litigation, with a focus on the preparation that gives counsel and clients a clearer view of the case.
Core work
Substance, structure, and a reliable record.
Discovery and factual development
Interview clients, review records, build chronologies, develop discovery, and identify evidentiary gaps and decisive issues.
Liability and damages analysis
Assess causation, damages, defenses, jurisdiction, procedural posture, and settlement considerations in injury and insurance matters.
Criminal defense
Review evidence and research constitutional, criminal, and procedural questions; prepare motions, memoranda, and expungement petitions under attorney supervision.
Representative experience
Cases shaped by facts
and procedure.
These descriptions summarize the type of work performed; they do not imply first-chair responsibility or independent courtroom experience.
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Wrongful death and personal injury
Develop the record before drawing conclusions.
Prepared pleadings, discovery, affidavits, demands, and legal memoranda; analyzed liability, causation, damages, punitive-damages issues, and insurance-related theories.
FocusEvidence · elements · exposure
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Motion practice
Separate procedural questions from factual disputes.
Drafted a sur-response in a Tennessee wrongful-death matter addressing intervention, disqualification, and party substitution under Rule 24 and related state law.
FocusProcedure · record · requested relief
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Criminal defense
Pair close client work with careful legal research.
At the Shelby County Public Defender’s Office, interviewed clients, reviewed evidence, researched constitutional and procedural issues, and drafted motions, memoranda, petitions, and filings under attorney supervision.
FocusClient facts · evidence · procedure
All casework described here was performed under supervising counsel.
Related experience
Insurance insight,
kept in perspective.
Insurance/UIM and healthcare-subrogation work, together with experience in enterprise risk at a regulated insurer, adds a practical view of coverage, recovery, and risk. Litigation remains the center of this profile.
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