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Practice

• Medical Professional Liability Defense
• Licensing and Disciplinary Actions
• Employment Liability Defense
• Civil/Business Litigation
• Premises Liability Defense
• Personal Injury Defense

Representative Cases

As a public defender, represented clients in 11 jury trials and 27 bench trials, most of them ending in acquittal of all charges.

Wrote, argued, and won over 30 dispositive motions, including:

   Motion to exclude essential witnesses for discovery violations,
   Motion to dismiss for failure to preserve physical evidence,
   Motion to dismiss for tactical abuse of judicial process,
   Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, and
   Motion to dismiss for violation of the First Amendment.

Briefed, argued, and won federal appeal that ended in reversal and remand for client to obtain new hearing. United States v. Wallace, 557 F. App’x 567 (7th Cir. 2014).

Education

• George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2011, summa cum laude
  Managing Editor, The George Washington Law Review
• Occidental College, B.A., 2002, Political Science

Admitted to Practice

• Washington
• New Hampshire
• United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Professional Experience

• ‍Fain Anderson VanDerhoef Rosendahl O'Halloran Spillane, PLLC, Associate, 2019 – Present
• New Hampshire Public Defender, 2014 – 2019
• Ellis, Boxer & Blake PLLC, Associate, 2013 – 2014
• Staff Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2011 – 2013

Selected Publications

• ‍Claims For Contribution Against Nonsettling Co-Tortfeasors, 26 CBA Record 40 (2012)
• Criminal Copyright Enforcement Against Filesharing Services, 15 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 101, 132 (2013) (with Benton Martin), cited by United States v. Vaulin, No. 16 CR 438-1, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 123084, at *26 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 4, 2017)
• Sex-Based Dress Codes and Equal Protection in Public Schools, 12 Appalachian J. Law 209 (2013), cited by Hayden v. Greensburg Cmty. Sch. Corp., 743 F.3d 569, 578 (7th Cir. 2014)

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