Areas Taught:
- Legal Methods
- Remedies
- Professional Responsibility
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Legal Ethics (paralegal program)
Education:
- Cornell Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1996
- Bates College, B.A., cum laude, 1993
State and Federal Bar Memberships:
- California State Bar, Admitted December, 1997;
- Northern District of California, Admitted December 1999
- Eastern District of California, Admitted December 1999;
- Maryland State Bar, Admitted December, 1996 (inactive)
Select Professional Experience:
MEDIATION:
- Owner/Mediator, Empower Mediation (formerly Mills ADR Services); Walnut Creek, CA- March, 2007- 2021
- Member of the ADR Panel for the Contra Costa Superior Court- 2012- 2018
- Volunteer Mediator, Conflict Resolution Programs, Center for Human Development; Pleasant Hill, CA- August, 2007- 2020
LITIGATION:
- Of Counsel, Garcia Law Group, APLC; Pleasanton, CA- June, 2004-Jan., 2007
- Associate, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP; San Francisco, CA- April, 2000-Feb. 2004
- Associate, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May; Oakland, CA- Jan. 1999-April, 2000
- Associate, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal; Washington, DC & Los Angeles- 1995, 1996- Dec. 1998
TEACHING:
- Chair, Legal Studies Programs & Core Faculty Law School, JFK College of Law- October, 2019- Dec, 2020
- Core Faculty Law School
- Adjunct Professor of Law, JFK College of Law- September, 2017- October, 2019
- Adjunct Professor of Conflict Resolution, University of the Rockies- November, 2010- Present
- Mediation Trainer, Center for Human Development; Pleasant Hill, CA- April, 2010; May, 2014