Experience

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  Georgia department of audits and accounts

  Sept 2001 - Jun 2005

  Auditor

  Implemented several cost report adjustments which led to the Department’s recovery of over $45 million from Medicaid providers and developed new initiatives used throughout the Department to improve employee morale.

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  Ernst & young

  Jun 2005 - Aug 2007

  Auditor

   Researched appropriate authoritative literature to provide an effective audit of Fortune 500 clients across healthcare, telecommunications, and financial services industries.

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  Christian & small llp

  Aug 2010 - Oct 2014

  Litigation associate

  • Substantial experience in all aspects of civil litigation from case intake through final disposition at trial. Handled heavy caseload at a busy litigation practice, often managing several cases in active litigation at one time.• Significant writing experience includes: drafting pleadings and motions practice such as drafting Daubert motions, summary judgment motions, motions to compel and for sanctions and motions to dismiss.• Case management and development skills include: initial client interviews, researching potential claims, developing case strategy, and advising clients on likely outcomes. Discovery experience includes taking expert and fact witness depositions, propounding and responding to interrogatories and document review.• Assisted clients in avoiding potential federal and state income tax controversy by analyzing proposed contracts, audited and unaudited financial statements, and recommending potential changes; which when implemented, significantly reduced the client’s federal and state income tax liability. • Oral advocacy and courtroom experience includes: arguing successful Circuit Court brief in favor of upholding summary judgment in breach of contract matter, examining fact witnesses in breach of the peace case, divorce case, and unlawful detainer case; and leading negotiations in mediations and settlement conferences.• Lead counsel on pro bono case prosecuting section 1983 claim against both the U.S. Marshalls Service and the Jefferson County Sherriff’s Department.• Broad range of substantive experience acting as both defense counsel and plaintiff’s counsel, representative cases including defending healthcare management company in breach of contract, negligence and accounting related fraud action; defending landlords and business owners in premises liability actions, defending car dealerships in breach of peace action; prosecuting unlawful detainer action against holdover tenant. Amounts in dispute range from $25K to $105 million. Show less