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Experience

• Successfully represented the appellant before the Supreme Court of Virginia in a personal injury case. Rascher v. Friend, 689 S.E.2d 661 (Va. 2010)
• Successfully represented the appellants before the Supreme Court of Virginia in a breach of contract action. Dunn Construction Co., Inc. v. Cloney, 278 Va. 260, 682 S.E.2d 943 (2009)
• Successfully represented an appellant before the Fourth Circuit in a products liability case involving mining equipment. Kennedy v. Joy Techs., Inc., 269 Fed. Appx. 302 (4th Cir. 2008)
• Successfully represented an appellant before the Supreme Court of Virginia in a case concerning the scope of the intermediate appellate court's ability to sanction litigants. Switzer v. Switzer, 273 Va. 326, 641 S.E.2d 80 (2007)
• Persuaded the Supreme Court of Virginia to reverse a trial court's dismissal of a wrongful death action in a case resolved by unpublished order
• Won a plaintiff's verdict for a contract mining company on breach of contract and fraud claims after an eight-day jury trial
• Represented a stockholder in a breach of contract suit against the corporation in a multi-day bench trial (result pending)
• Represented a real estate consortium in a suit for specific performance of a commercial sale and purchase contract. Resolved the litigation by closing the commercial real estate transaction
• Represent a defendant local government in simultaneous lawsuits regarding a plaintiff intensive livestock facility operator's ability to expand its intensive agricultural operations
• Successfully represented a manufacturer of chemical products in a products liability action
• Helped represent an international financial institution in connection with simultaneous multilateral government and other investigations
• Assisted with a bankrupt energy company's spin-off of its portfolio of international project-financed assets
• Associated with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP before joining Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore

Education

• Harvard Law School: J.D. cum laude, 2002
• College of William and Mary: B.A. magna cum laude, 1999