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I am a State Certified Appellate Specialist.. I have practiced appellate law continuously since 2012 when I got my start serving as a law clerk to the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. As Judge Noonan's elbow clerk, I prepared bench memoranda on a wide array of issues including civil rights, employment discrimination, and tort law and worked on over 25 different federal appeals. Since then, I have briefed and argued many civil and criminal appeals in both state and federal courts. All told, I have worked on approximately 50 separate appeals that have included both serious criminal felonies and civil cases involving multimillion dollar judgments. I am also a proud graduate of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College in Wyoming and am committed to the cause of being a people's lawyer.. My prior successes include favorable settlement of decades-old prison litigation originating from an inhumane, year-long lockdown at a California prison; dismissal of an action that reunited a wrongfully accused Native American woman with her children; and a total reversal on appeal of a criminal conviction based upon a faulty plea agreement.. I graduated from New York University where I double majored in mathematics and history. After law school, I worked as a waiter, a high school math teacher, and a computer programmer at a fintech firm in New York City and San Francisco. Later, I received my law degree from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in Los Angeles. During law school, I was an extern to the Honorable Robert H. Henry of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Oklahoma City.