Kentucky-licensed attorney based in Portland, Maine, with Maine admission pending and litigation experience since 2021 across wrongful-death, personal-injury, insurance/UIM, criminal-defense, and related civil matters. Drafts pleadings, motions, discovery, affidavits, demands, and legal memoranda under supervising counsel; develops liability, damages, procedural, and settlement analyses; and brings an insurance-informed perspective from experience at a national property-and-casualty insurer.
Bar Admissions & Core Strengths
Kentucky — Active and in Good Standing · Maine — Admission Application Pending
Civil Litigation · Pleadings, Motions & Discovery · Legal Research & Writing · Wrongful Death & Personal Injury · Insurance/UIM · Client Interviews · Evidence & Record Analysis · Settlement Strategy
Litigation & Legal Experience
Tim Williams Law OfficeLitigation Law Clerk / Legal Consultant · Memphis, Tennessee
Draft filing-ready pleadings, motions, discovery requests and responses, legal memoranda, affidavits, demands, and other work product under supervising counsel in civil and criminal matters.
Analyze liability, causation, damages, defenses, jurisdiction, procedural posture, evidentiary gaps, and settlement considerations in wrongful-death, personal-injury, insurance/UIM, punitive-damages, and related matters.
Interview clients, review records and evidence, build chronologies, identify decisive factual and legal issues, and prepare counsel for negotiations, briefing, motion practice, and case milestones.
Recent work includes drafting a sur-response opposing intervention, disqualification, and substitution in a wrongful-death action, applying Tennessee Rule 24 and wrongful-death priority, control, and distribution law.
Shelby County Public Defender's OfficeLegal Extern — Criminal Defense · Memphis, Tennessee
Conducted client interviews, reviewed evidence, researched constitutional, criminal, and procedural issues, and drafted motions, memoranda, expungement petitions, and court filings under attorney supervision.
Analyzed recovery rights, liens, plan language, and claims documentation in healthcare-subrogation matters under self-funded ERISA and multi-jurisdictional benefit plans.
Managed enterprise third-party risk assessments within a regulated property-and-casualty insurer across legal, regulatory, cybersecurity, privacy, operational, resiliency, and reputational exposures.
Produced concise findings and decision-ready recommendations; partnered with Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Procurement, Technology, and business teams on remediation and risk acceptance.
Co-designed CSAA's third-party AI risk domain and assessment process, including an AI-focused vendor questionnaire and methodology addressing data use, model governance, security, privacy, regulatory, and operational controls.
Bar Admissions
Kentucky — Active and in Good Standing Maine — Admission Application Pending
Education
J.D., University of Memphis · 2023 CALI Award — Contracts II · Top 10 Oral Advocate · Mock Trial Semifinalist · Distinguished Pro Bono Service
B.A., History, Middle Tennessee State University · 2019 GPA 3.88 · Dean's List (four terms)