Areas of Practice

• Criminal Defense
• International Law
• Business & Commercial Law
• Arbitration
• Business Organization
• Child Support
• Civil Rights
• Communications & Media Law
• Constitutional Law
• Consumer Protection
• Contracts
• Copyrights & Trademarks
• Custody & Visitation
• Debtor/Creditor
• Discrimination
• Divorce
• DUI/DWI
• Family Law
• Immigration & Naturalization Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• Internet - Cyberspace
• Landlord/Tenant
• Litigation & Appeals
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• State, Local & Municipal Law
• Traffic Violations
• Wills

Bar Admissions

• Virginia, 1995
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 2005
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2000

Education

• Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany, 1998
  LL.M. Eur, with Honors
  
  
• George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 1995
  J.D.
  Law Review: George Washington Law Review, 1993 - 1995
  
  
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 2002
  International Business Certificate
  
  
• College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1990
  B.A.
  Major: History
  Minor: Government, French
  
  

Published Works

• A Balance of Interests: The Concordance of Copyright Law and Moral Rights in the World Wide Economy, 11 Fordham IPLJ (Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal), 3, 2001
• Note, The Citizenship as a Weapon in Controlling the Flow of Undocumented Aliens: Evaluation of Proposed Denials if Citizenship of Undocumented Aliens Born in the United States, 65 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 551, 1995

Representative Cases

• Sydnor v. Conseco Financial Servicing Corp., 246 F.3d 668 (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 2001)
• Goff v. J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, 68 Va. Cir. 382 (Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Richmond 2005)
• Goff v. J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, 65 Va. Cir. 479 (Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Richmond 2004)

Languages

• German
• French
• Spanish

Fraternities/Sororities

• Sigma Nu

Birth Information

• 1968, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America