Summary :

After more than two decades in reportorial, research, editing and management experience in various professional media (broadcast [TV, radio & Internet], print [news dailies, weeklies and magazines], and Internet), I have moved into the legal arena.

Currently studying for the California Bar Exam.

Specialties :

Areas of California civil law, legal research, and federal civil rights: first, second, fourth, fifth, and eighth amendment law.

Reporting, writing and editing strengths are: Financial services, High Tech (hardware, software, Internet commerce, enterprise, media), venture capital, business model analysis, Mass Media Law, media trends (traditional and new media), entertainment, television, film.

Experience

Law Clerk / Paralegal

Law Offices of Donald Kilmer, APC

(Legal Services industry)

November 2004 - May 2010 (5 years 7 months)

Boutique law firm with practice in civil rights and family law.
Of Note:
* Worked as assistant to lead counsel in filing Ninth Circuit Appellate briefs for Nordyke v. King; Fisher v. San Jose
* Worked as assistant to lead counsel in preparation of amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States for McDonald v. City of Chicago.

Editor/Writer

Red Herring

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

June 2003 - 2004 (1 year )

Member, Board of Directors

Billy DeFrank Center

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2002 - September 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Financial Reporter

Silicon Valley Biz Ink

(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

November 2002 - 2003 (1 year )

Contract News Editor

E-trade

(Public Company; Financial Services industry)

August 2002 - November 2002 (4 months)

ETFN E-Trade Financial Network - Contract News Editor

Associate News Director, News Manager, Reporter

ON24

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

August 1999 - August 2002 (3 years 1 month)

Assignment Editor

KRON-TV

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

August 1998 - August 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Assignment Editor

Granite Broadcasting

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; GBTVK; Broadcast Media industry)

January 1996 - August 1998 (2 years 8 months)

WPTA-TV, Fort Wayne, Indiana Jan. 1996-Sept. 1997
KNTV, San Jose, California Sept. 1997-Sept. 1998

Editor/Reporter

All Printing and Publications Inc.

(Publishing industry)

May 1992 - January 1995 (2 years 9 months)

Editor at Churubusco News - 1994 – 1995: Editor of Weekly small-town newspaper;
Reporter at Albion New Era - 1992 – 1993: Worked as a photographer/reporter for weekly small town newspaper.

Community Relations Intern

WBST-FM

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

1990 - 1991 (1 year )

Internship for WBST-FM, the flagship station for Indiana Public Broadcasting.

Education

Lincoln Law School

J.D. Law

2006 - 2010

* Best Written Brief: Moot Court
* Academic Excellence Highest GPA: Property
* Recipient: Pamela Lee Thagard Memorial Scholarship: Awarded to the student who having qualified and participated in the William Ingram Inn of the American Inns of Court has shown skill in the study of law, and commitment to the highest professional ethics in the search for justice.

De Anza College

Certificate (A.A.) Paralegal Studies

2004 - 2006

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Ball State University

B.S. Journalism, Business and Organizational Communication (Speech Communictaion), Art History

1986 - 1991

* Founding member of the Ball State University Lesbian and Gay Student Association, now called Spectrum.
* First openly LGBT member of the BSU Student Senate.

WebSites

• My Blog