University of Pennsylvania

Harvard Law School

Harvard University

Senior Counsel at PJM Interconnection

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Regional transmission planning, regulatory compliance, and employment law

PJM Interconnection

Senior Counsel

Design and teach graduate-level financial regulation, aid/accreditation, and student rights courses at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Drexel University’s School of Education.

Drexel University

Adjunct Professor

- Counseled multi-jurisdictional employers on compliance with federal, state, and local paid and unpaid leave, anti-discrimination, wage and hour, reduction in force, and background check laws •	Designed and implemented litigation, class action, and union avoidance strategies •	Drafted policies/handbooks, confidentiality, severance, and executive employment agreements, criminal history questionnaires, and strategic company-wide correspondence•	Conducted privileged investigations of discrimination/retaliation complaints and wage and hour audits•	Defended against misappropriation of trade secret, discrimination/retaliation, ERISA, wage and hour, and breach of contract claims in court, agency, and arbitral proceedings•	Took and defended depositions in employment discrimination cases•	Represented employers in union contract negotiations and the defense of unfair labor practice charges•	Represented a national employer in a multi-day NLRB representation hearing

Duane Morris LLP

Associate, Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group

- Represented employers in internal investigations and single plaintiff and class action litigation involving ERISA, False Claims Act, whistleblower, wage and hour, OSHA, discrimination, and trade secret claims•	Drafted dispositive motions, successful opposition briefing to class certification, appellate briefs, mediation statements, motions to compel arbitration, and class and collective action settlement agreements •	Negotiated Department of Labor (OSHA) settlements in fatality and process safety management cases

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Associate, Labor & Employment Practice Group

U.S. Courts

Law Clerk to Judge Stewart Dalzell, U.S. District Court for the E.D. Pa.

- Wrote research memoranda on search and seizure, sentencing, prosecutorial entrapment, and habeas corpus issues•	Drafted successful motion for summary disposition arguing no district court sentencing error

The United States Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Criminal Appellate Division Intern

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Summer Associate

- Amgen Associate Fellow (National Science Teachers Association award for classroom innovation)•	Taught chemistry to 120 students in low-performing, under-resourced high school; planned budget and teacher training •	Reviewed and edited Philadelphia’s high school chemistry and physical science curricula and standardized tests

Mark Stanisz