UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF LAW

• Juris Doctor, Cum Laude 5/94
  
• Active Member BALIF, Womens Law Association, National Lawyers Guild
  
• Research Assistant - Nina Rivkind, Professor of Law.
  
• ASP Program Tutor - Contracts
  

MILLS COLLEGE

• B.A. Communications, 5/86
  
• McAuliffe Honor Society
  

ATTORNEY AT LAW, San Francisco, CA, 12/94 to Present

Pro-bono and self-employed contract legal work in General (civil) practice, including wills, landlord/tenant law, family law, business contracts and partnership agreements.

LAW OFFICES OF MULLIGAN & HERNANDEZ, San Francisco, CA, 8/94 - 6/95

Civil Litigation. Research Associate responsible for legal research, drafting and preparing memorandum and briefs, assisting with discovery, meeting and corresponding with clients and opposing counsel, fact gathering, online and manual research.

NINA RIVKIND & STEVEN SHATZ, San Francisco, CA. Summer 1993

Law Clerk; Legal research and writing, drafting points and authorities for death penalty appeal, and compiled an appendix of currentcapital punishment statutes from all states.

BAYSIDE LEGAL ADVOCATES, San Francisco, CA. Summer 1992

Civil Rights Law Clerk. Legal research, interviewed witnesses and potential litigants for class action law suit.

USF CRIMINAL LAW CLINIC 8/92 - 5/93

Represented misdemeanor clients in all aspects of criminal case. Responsible for legal research, drafting and preparing motions and briefs, contacting and interviewing witnesses. Prepared case for hearing, attended pretrial conferences, prepared client and witnesses for trial. Wrote and argued Pitches Motion.

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO 8/92-5/94

Academic Support Program Tutor - CONTRACTS. Prepared and presented weekly tutorials for first year contracts students. Lectured to groups ranging from 7 to 20 students.

Cafe DuNord, San Francisco, CA 7/98-Present

Office Manager - Create and manage client database for local nightclub and restaurant. Monitor print and online media exposure. Create and post in-house marketing materials. Maintain weekly online listserv for clientele and press. Answer press and public telephone and online inquiries. General office management.

Stormy Leather, San Francisco, CA 8/96 - 6/98

Manager, Shipping Department - Duties include managing the daily operations of a shipping department, moving over $100,000 worth of goods per month. Responsible for creating and tracking department budgets, reconciling department accounts, hiring, training and supervising employees, and liaison with other managers. Created and updated job descriptions, training materials and an on-line training manual. Over saw computerization of department. Manager also conducts and reconciles monthly inventories and oversees receiving and allocation of all goods produced.

Self-employed, San Francisco, CA 5/90 - 8/91

Independent Accounting Services and Bookkeeping - Clients included: Body Manipulations, Travel One, Bel Tempo Travel, Xela Imports, Van Klee Imports

Global Travel Too, San Francisco, CA 2/89 - 5/90

Full Charge Bookkeeper - Duties included preparing Financials, Reconciling Accounts, ADP Processed payroll for all employees, Tracking sales and commissions for each employee, Preparing and reconciling Airline Industry Reports,Generating and auditing monthly and quarterly accounting department reports.

Rough Trade, Inc., San Francisco, CA 4/87 - 2/89

Bookkeeper - AP/AR, Manual and computer bookkeeping, Account reconciliation, Manual payroll, State and Federal tax payments, Quarterly royalty computations and payments, Tracking multiple department budgets.

IBM and Macintosh proficient (Mac OS, DOS and Windows); Proficient Internet user (Netscape, Explorer, Eudora); Experienced with Lexis, Westlaw. All major office systems, word processing and spreadsheet software (Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint; ClarisWorks; Lotus; Word Perfect. Various Accounting Software (Quickbooks, Peachtree, Solomon ); DBase; FileMaker; knowledge of HTML (able to construct web pages). Knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping. 10 Key by touch. Law school focus in Entertainment/Copywrite law.