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Both as a law firm associate and solo practitioner I have drafted a diversity of complaints at law and in equity, including requests for injunctive relief and declaratory judgments, as well as answers, affirmative defenses, and counterclaims to such complaints. Where one of the parties has contested, say, an insurance policy’s coverage of the plaintiff’s losses for a certain event, or has threatened to simply breach the agreement at issue, drafting in the complaint a request of the court for declaratory judgment on such issues can be quite useful in establishing the litigants’ respective legal obligations before a trial or even a lawsuit commences.

I have also written trial briefs for court cases and in arbitration, and I am adept at combing through the record to find that obscure point of law or crucial admission buried in testimony that refutes, challenges, or affirms the case’s dominant narrative.

In postjudgment proceedings, I have researched and drafted motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and other motions, such as a motion to vacate, requesting that the verdict be set aside for reasons of defect. Whether you seek to deny or secure a JNOV or other posttrial judgment reversing the trial court verdict, you will find in me a learned and zealous advocate of consummate skill for your position.

Taking depositions has deepened what I bring to the art of deposition outlines, summaries, and abstracts—a not-uncommon request from focused but busy counsel to the legal writing quarter.

In the non-litigative realm, I have years of experience performing general legal research and writing on specialized topics that became large tracts of nonfiction work by an author on subjects as disparate as an online database on antisemitism in customs and law throughout human civilization, the history of Second Amendment law, Bush II’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 and Abu Ghraib, and researching and creating a history of United States Supreme Court cases involving sitting presidents.