• Representing private equity firm in a putative antitrust class action alleging Section 1 violations in joint bidding for acquisition of public companies in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
• Representing building products supplier against alleged supply reduction and price-fixing conspiracy in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
• Representing multinational provided of food and facilities services as plaintiff in a breach of contract action in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
• Defended world's leading marketer of horticultural products against alleged vertical conspiracy to allocate markets and fix prices that resulted in summary judgment in favor of client and the award of costs in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Defended national trucking company against allegations of price-fixing and other antitrust violations in multiple federal district courts, including proceedings before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, that resulted in consolidation and dismissal of all claims in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
• Defended world's largest pork processor and hog producer against patent infringement claims that resulted in summary judgment in favor of client and the award of costs in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
• Defended telecommunications company against Robinson-Patman claims that resulted in summary judgment in favor of client in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
• Defended pharmaceutical corporation against patent infringement claims in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
• Defended multinational provider of food and facilities services against medical malpractice claims in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
• Represented pro bono clients in civil and criminal matters before various circuit, general district, and juvenile and domestic relations courts in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Appellate Experience

• Authored brief in appeal that resulted in unanimous opinion affirming summary judgment in favor of client in an alleged Section 1 vertical conspiracy case.  U.S. Horticultural Supply Co. v. The Scotts Company, No. 09-1231, 2010 WL 729498 (3d Cir. Mar. 4, 2010). 
• Appointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia to represent an inmate in a declaratory judgment action; briefed and argued the appeal before the Supreme Court.  Spivey v. Bass, No. 080869 (Apr. 3, 2009 & June 12, 2009).
• Authored and drafted briefs in appeals before the Supreme Court of the United States involving the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
• Drafted briefs in appeals before the Fourth and Federal Circuits.
• Authored and drafted briefs in appeals before the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
• Advised corporate and individual clients on appeals before the Supreme Court of Virginia. 

Antitrust Investigations, Counseling, and Merger Experience

• Counseled multinational and national corporations in matters under review by both the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

• Law Clerk, Hon. Donald W. Lemons, Supreme Court of Virginia, 2004-2006
• Intern, Hon. James R. Spencer, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (January 2003 - April 2003)
• Assistant to the President, The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina, 1997-2001
• Research Assistant to the Executive Director, The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, 1995-1997

• Bar Admissions:
  • Virginia State Bar
  • District of Columbia Bar
• Bar Committees:
  • Supreme Court of Virginia Appellate Rules Advisory Committee (2005 - 2010)
• Court Admissions:
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

• J.D., University of Richmond School of Law, University of Richmond Law Review, Manuscripts Editor; Order of the Barristers, 2004
  
• B.A., University of Virginia, Edwin B. Kyle Award, 1995