Summer 2004:
Miami Students Find Great Summer Jobs
Find below a sampling of where our law students worked during the summer of 2004. While by no means a complete list, it does reflect a solid range of positions gained by Miami's law students.
Law Firms
Judicial Internships
Government
Corporate/Miscellaneous
LAW FIRMS
Name: Nory Acosta
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Florida
Email: na9746@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: University of Miami
Summer Employer: Acosta & Associates
City, State: Coconut Grove, Florida
Job Description: Case research, drafting of motions, summarizing of depositions and records in preparation for trial.
Name: Matthew Amster
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Connecticut
Email: MA0687@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Cornell University
Summer Employer: Bercow & Radell, P.A.
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Land Use, Zoning and Environmental due diligence research. Prepared zoning and environmental variance applications. Legal research and writing of memoranda of law.
Name: Anna Andreeva
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Russia
Email: aa3628@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Georgia College & State University
Summer Employer: White & Case
City, State: Miami, FL Job Category: Law Firm
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: Researching legal issues, meeting and communicating with clients, drafting legal documents, and attending negotiations.
Name: Maia Aron
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Florida
Email: MA3621@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate or Graduate: University of Miami
Summer Employer: Peter Spindel, Esq., P.A.
City, State: Coral Gables, FL
Job Title: Clerk
Job Description: Drafted motions and orders
Name: Caroline Bissett
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: New York
Email: cebiss@aol.com
Undergraduate School: College of William and Mary
Summer Employer: Winstead, Sechrest, & Minick
City, State: Houston, TX
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: drafted memos, venue lease, master lease agreement, drafted talking points for speech to International Association of Arena Management.
Name: Josh Bosin
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Indiana
Email: jb2277@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: The U.of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Summer Employer: Holland & Knight LLP
City, State: Atlanta, Georgia
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: General civil litigation, labor & employment litigation & corporate drafting
Name: Marko Cerenko
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: GA
Email: markocerenko@hotmail.com
Undergraduate School: Duke University
Summer Employer: Fowler, White, Boggs, Banker
City, State: Tampa/West Palm Beach, FL
Job Title: summer associate
Job Description: Wrote memoranda of law on subjects ranging from corporate transactions, immigration, employment law, securities litigation, commercial litigation, trust and estates work,a nd health care litigation.
Name: Danielle de Zorzi
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: New York
Email: danielledezorzi@yahoo.com
Undergraduate School: Columbia University
Summer Employer: Bruno, Gerbino & Soriano
City, State: New York
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: Drafted pleadings, motions, and memos relating to No Fault insurance law.
Name: Katerina Duarte
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: New York
Email: Newyorkcitykat@aol.com
Undergraduate School: Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY)
Summer Employer: Gaebe, Mullen, Antonelli, Esco & DiMatteo
City, State: Coral Gables, FL
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Prepared pleadings, reviewed files, depositions, drafted correspondence, demand letters, attended hearings.
Name: Leona N. Dudley
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Florida
Email: lm9024@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: University of Miami
Summer Employer: Holland & Knight LLP
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: Drafting legal memoranda; preparing motions.
Name: Robert Flicker
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: FLorida
Email: robertflicker@hotmail.com
Undergraduate: Colgate University
Summer Employer: Carlton Fields
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Summer Associate
Name: Robert Folsom
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: South Carolina
Email: r.folsom@umiami.edu
Undergraduate School: College of Charleston
Summer Employer: Law Offices of Dennis J. Christensen, P.A.
City, State: Charleston, SC
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Interviewed new Medicaid application clients; organized supporting documentation; was intermediary for Medicaid caseworkers, nursing homes, and the clients.
Name: Tim Golden
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Massachusetts
Email: TG6276@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Tufts University
Summer Employer: Green and Spiegel
City, State: Toronto, Ontario
Job Title: Legal Assistant
Job Description: Served as Firm Liaison for US Consulate in Toronto. Prepared and assisted clients for on-site visa applications at Consulate. Initiated, drafted, and processed U.S. (BCIS) and Canadian (CIC) temporary/permanent employment based petitions. Drafted and submitted asylum and humanitarian permanent resident petitions to CIC.
Name: James Harding
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Ohio
Email: jharding@the-beach.net
Undergraduate or Graduate: Hamilton College
Summer Employer: Santen & Hughes, LPA
City, State: Cincinnati, OH
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: The usual summer duties: legal research and writing memos, drafting pleading and business contracts, drafting discovery tools, attending client meetings, depositions, mediations, and trials.
Name: Caroline Klancke
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: ck2940@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: Florida State University
Summer Employer: George, Hartz, Lundeen, Fulmer, Johnstone, King & Stevens
City, State: Coral Gables, FL
Job Description: I researched and wrote memorandum of law as well as motions pertaining to the defense of physicians involved in medical malpractice cases.
Name: Peter Sands Moeller
Class of: Class of 2005
Email: pm4525@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: North Carolina State University
Summer Employer: Markowitz, Davis, Ringel & Trusty, P.A.
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Legal Research and Drafting of Memos, Writs and Motions
Name: Navin Pasem
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Florida
Email: navp17@aol.com
Undergraduate: University of Florida
Summer Employer: Burger King Corporation
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Description: Drafted contracts, executive summaries, memos. Research projects. Client interaction.
Name: Tara Pellegrino
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: NY
Email: tp8228@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Univ. of Pennsylvania
Summer Employer: Perlman, Yevoli & Albright
City, State: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Corporate law (research, writing memos)
Name: Adriana Riviere
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: riviere378@hotmail.com
Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Summer Employer: Genovese Joblove & Battista
City, State: Miami, Florida
Job Title: Summer Law Clerk
Job Description: Legal research & writing, preparation of pleadings and appellate brief arguments. Mostly bankruptcy-related and commercial litigation.
Name: Jeremy Segal
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: js1060@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: Wharton - UPENN
Summer Employer: Leesfield, Leighton, Rubio, & Boyers P.A.
City, State: Miami, Florida
Name: Nicole Sieb
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: FL
Email: ns0716@law.miami.students.edu
Undergraduate School: Smith College
Summer Employer: Josephs Jack & Miranda
City, State: Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Research/Write
Name: Ihsan Speede-Franklin
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: MA
Email: ihsankairi@yahoo.com
Undergraduate: Brown University
Summer Employer: Kirkpatrick and Lockhart LLP
City, State: Boston, MA
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: Worked in a wide variety of practice areas including: litigation, corporate, probate litigation, estate planning, real estate and investment management.
Name: Chris Stafford
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Arkansas
Email: cs5447@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Marymount Manhattan College
Summer Employer: Ruden McClosky
City, State: Ft. Lauderdale
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: Research and writing legal memoranda, court experience, research and writing legal memoranda, motion drafting, research and writing legal memoranda, enjoying firm-sponsored events, and of course, research and writing legal memoranda.
Name: Jonathan Williams
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: North Carolina
Email: jw7400@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: UNC Chapel Hill
Summer Employer: Harris, Creech, Ward and Blackerby, PA
City, State: New Bern, NC
Job Title: Summer Clerk
Job Description: Conducting research, writing memos, attending depositions
Name: Doug Wolfe
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Illinois
Email: dougew1@yahoo.com
Undergraduate School: DePaul University
Summer Employer: Powers, McNalis & Torres
City, State: West Palm Beach, Florida
Job Title: Intern
Job Description: legal research and writing
JUDICIAL INTERNSHIPS
Name: Alex Bach
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: alexbach@gmail.com
Undergraduate School: Smith College
Summer Employer: Supreme Court of Florida
City, State: Tallahassee, FL
Job Title: Intern
Job Description: Intern for Justice R. Fred Lewis
Name: Stanley Barsky
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: MA
Email: s.barsky@umiami.edu
Undergraduate School: Vanderbilt
Summer Employer: 11th Judicial Circuit, Gen Jur Division
City, State: Miami, Florida
Job Title: judicial clerk
Job Description: research/observe
Name: Liz Boan
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: Bibi990@aol.com
Undergraduate: University of Florida
Summer Employer: Judge Scott J. Silverman
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Summer Law Clerk
Job Description: Assist with daily courtroom proceedings. Research case law.
Name: Michael James
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Michigan
Email: MJ5058@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: University of Michigan
Summer Employer: United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Honorable Judge Marcus City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Clerk
Job Description: Assisted in writing and editing the official opinions of the Court; wrote memorandums advising Judge Marcus as to the merits of individual cases; screened cases to determine whether they should be granted oral argument.
Name: Franklin Homer
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: fh9959@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: Emory University
Summer Employer: Judge Kenneth A. Marra (Southern District of Florida) City, State: Fort Lauderdale
Job Title: Judicial Internship
Job Description: Drafted orders from the Court. Also sat in on every aspect of a court proceeding.
Name: Lindsay Korey-Lefteroff
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Illinois
Email: lk8435@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: University of Miami
Summer Employer: Honorable Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow
City, State: Chicago, Illinois
Job Title: Judicial Extern
Job Description: Research and drafting of judicial opinions for the judge, proofreading of opinions prepared by the law clerks.
Name: Brian Levin
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: MI
Undergraduate: Michigan State
Summer Employer: Judge David L. Levy at 3rd District Court of Appeals
City, State: Miami, Florida
Job Title: Judicial Intern
Name: Ryan William Owen
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Tennessee
Email: ro8770@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: Washington and Lee
Summer Employer: State of FL, 11th Circuit Court, Criminal Division
City, State: Miami, Fl
Job Title: Judicial Intern
Job Description: Wrote 2 memos, watched court proceedings
Name: Garrett Reuter
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Illinois
Email: GR8753@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: University of Notre Dame
Summer Employer: Honorable Chief Judge G. Patrick Murphy, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
City, State: East St. Louis, IL
Job Title: Judicial Intern
Job Description: Researched both civil and criminal law; reviewed, prepared and drafted court orders; observed civil and criminal proceedings.
Name: Zaba St. George
Class of: Class of 2006
Email: zs2727@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: University of Florida
Summer Employer: Judge Henry Leyte-Vidal, 11th District Criminal
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Clerk
Name: Eric Seid
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: FL
Email: ericseid@bellsouth.net
Undergraduate: Duke University
Summer Employer: Hon. Kenneth L. Ryskamp, District Court, Southern District of Florida
City, State: West Palm Beach, FL
Job Category: Judicial
Job Description: Prepared draft orders for pending cases. Wrote an extensive memorandum on the application of the Qualified Immunity defense in the Eleventh Circuit. Substantively edited a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("CERCLA") court opinion. Discussed analysis of legal issues with law clerks.
Name: Lucretia Scruggs
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: Lovinglife42002@yahoo.com
Undergraduate School: University of Florida
Summer Employer: 11th Judicial Circuit; Judge Bagley
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Judicial Clerk
Job Description: Wrote Memos and researched pertinent case law.
Name: Steven Seward
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Texas
Email: ss5798@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: University of Texas at Austin
Summer Employer: United States Bankruptcy Court
City, State: Miami, Florida
Job Category: Judicial
Job Title: Judicial Intern
Job Description: Wrote legal memoranda, sat in on trials, motion hearings, and confirmation hearings.
Name: Nick Siegfried
Class of: Class of 2006
Email: ns2754@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: University of Miami School of Law
Summer Employer: Judge Joan Lenard
City, State: Miami, Florida
Job Category: Judicial
Job Title: Intern
Name: Ronald Tomassi
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: FL
Email: rt2638@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: University of Florida
Summer Employer: US Magistrate Judge William C. Turnoff
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Legal Intern
Job Description: Research and assisted in drafting orders on various discovery motions and motions for summary judgment.
Name: Mihai M. Vrasmasu
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: New Jersey
Email: mv8252@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Seton Hall University
Summer Employer: US Magistrate Judge Ted E. Bandstra
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Judicial Intern
Job Description: Researched and drafted numerous Orders and Reports and Recommendations on various legal topics.
GOVERNMENT
Name: Hilary A. Berg
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Washington
Email: hilaryberg@hotmail.com
Undergraduate: Bradley University
Summer Employer: City of Chicago, Department of Law
City, State: Chicago, IL
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Draft complaints and notices of violation. Question witnesses on cases involving housing violaitons. Work with police officers to determine properties to be targeted for prosecution.
Name: Daniel Bensimon
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: Donne5@aol.com
Undergraduate: Yeshiva University
Summer Employer: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
City, State: Miami, Fl
Job Title: Legal Intern
Job Description: Wrote legal briefs for the Department regarding asylum, deportation, cancellation of removal, motion to reopen, etc.
Name: Aziza Botchway
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: MI
Email: ab3976@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Bethune-Cookman College
Summer Employer: -Florida Legal Services, Miami Advocacy Office
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Florida Bar Foundation Fellow
Job Description: Research and draft memoranda and briefs on homelessness, Medicaid, consumer fraud, gentrification, contracts, and property disputes. Completed intakes of potential clients for class action lawsuits. Collaborated with city and county commissioners to assist in the passage of public interest legislation.
Name: Melissa Cardoza
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: California
Email: mc7589@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: UC Santa Cruz
Summer Employer: San Francisco Public Defender
City, State: San Francisco, CA
Job Title: intern
Job Description: Kept calendar daily for the State Superior Court. Drafted motions. Prepared direct and cross examination questions for trials and hearings. Interviewed clients and witnesses. Sat second chair on misdemeanor trial matters.
Name: Mary Clark
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Missouri
Email: MiamiMry@aol.com
Undergraduate: University of Miami
Summer Employer: Children and Youth Law Clinic
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Public Interest Fellow
Job Description: Assisted directors in research for and representation of clients
Name: Rafael de Guzman
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: New York
Email: rafidg@yahoo.com
Undergraduate School: Princeton University
Summer Employer: U of M School of Law Children & Youth Law Clinic, Public Defender's Office, Juvenile Division
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Fellow
Job Description: The Fellowship offered class hours, a 20-page term paper, and job placement. The class included readings concerning important juvenile legal matters. In addition, Florida's leading child advocates addressed the class. Further, we were required to spend 40 hours a week at our placements. I was placed at the Juvenile Division of the Public Defender's Office and my responsibilities included, interviewing juveniles in the detention center, assisting attorneys in court, exploring "sentencing" alternatives, and interacting with the Public Defender's social workers to find suitable placements for the clients.
Name: Alex Diaz
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: Florida
Email: Adiaz0814@aol.com
Undergraduate School: University of Miami
Summer Employer: Miami-Dade County School Board
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Law clerk
Job Description: Working with the School Board provided a very practical experience. I was able to work on appellate briefs to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and also prepared and researched various motions.
Name: Christopher Furlan
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: cfurlan02@yahoo.com
Undergraduate/Graduate: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical, U. Miami, MBA
Summer Employer: Miami-Dade County Attorney
City, State: Miami, FL Job
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Clerk for Tax section, proofreading for legal sufficiency, research, trial preparation.
Name: Jason Grossfield
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: New York
Email: jg3846@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: Brandeis University
Summer Employer: Environmental & Land Use Law Center
City, State: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Job Title: Legal Intern
Job Description: Research and writing in support of legal battles to protect South Florida's environment
Name: Matt Gordon
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Massachusetts; North Carolina
Email: mg5838@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Summer Employer: United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida
City, State: Tampa, FL
Job Title: Summer Law Intern/Criminal Division
Job Description: Worked closely with Assistant United States Attorneys on high-profile counterterrorism case. Researched and wrote legal memoranda on several issues involved in prosecution of case, including discovery, evidentiary and fraud issues. Updated and revised legal memorandum to be submitted to federal district court. Presented and explained relevant law to federal agents assigned to case at FBI Tampa Headquarters. Participated in key evidentiary decisions made by Assistant United States Attorneys in conjunction with FBI agents and experts assigned to case. Observed government's presentation of cases in federal district court.
Name: Loriellen Hall
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: FL
Email: lori7801@aol.com
Undergraduate School: University of Florida
Summer Employer: Broward Public Defender's Office
City, State: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Job Title: Certified Legal Intern
Job Description: Participated in arraignments, calendar call, trial preparation, took depositions and interviewed clients.
Name: Shagufa Hossain
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: United Kingdom
Email: shagufahossain@hotmail.com
Undergraduate School: Georgetown University
Summer Employer: US Securities & Exchange Commission
City, State: Atlanta, GA
Job Title: Summer Honors Program Law Clerk
Job Description: Worked on accounting fraud cases and insider trading investigations. Projects included drafting memoranda and leters to entities being investigated.
Name: Talia Houminer
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: New York
Email: th4090@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Boston University
Summer Employer: Guardian Ad Litem
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Legal Intern
Job Description: attended court, wrote memos, researched
Name: Julie A. Kleeman
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: MA & ME
Email: jk7121@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Franklin and Marshall College
Summer Employer: New York County District Attorney's Office
City, State: New York, NY
Job Title: Legal Intern
Job Description: second sat felony trials and suppression hearings. Interviewed victims, witnesses and defendants. Wrote legal memos on criminal law topics.
Name: Sharon Nowell
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: NJ
Email: sp5726@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate or Graduate: University of Maryland
Summer Employer: Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Law Clerk
Job Description: Drafted family law pleadings; requested & reviewed school records; conducted client satisfaction survey; interviewed potential clients; researched family law issues.
Name: Joshua Shore
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: js2546@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate: School of Law
Summer Employer: Office of William Jefferson Clinton
Job Title: Special Projects Intern
Name: Tarin Smithline
Class of: Class of 2004
State From: Florida
Email: tarinann@hotmail.com
Undergraduate School: University of Florida
Summer Employer: Public Defender's Office, 11th Judicial Circuit
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Certified Legal Intern
Job Description: Handled motion calendar. Took depositions. Interviewed clients. Wrote and argued motions.
Name: Rachel Tompkins
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: VA
Email: rt2170@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Radford University
Summer Employer: Domestic Violence Courts, Miami-Dade
City, State: Miami, FL
Job Title: Summer Intern
Job Description: I worked with case managers and judges to facilitate the obtaining of a domestic violence restraining order. In addition I helped negotiate visitation and computed child support using the Fl guidelines.
Name: Mary Wiethorn
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Maryland
Email: mw8416@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: University of Michigan
Summer Employer: Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service
City, State: Washington, DC
Job Title: Intern, Office of General Counsel
Job Description: Focused on labor & employment law. Generated legal memoranda for the agency's defense of pending EEOC cases. Replied to FOIA requests and researched legal issues for an internal labor & employment caseload. Furnished statutory interpretation regarding arbitration. Attended training and seminars on designing corporate conflict management systems.
Name: Nicole Wiseberg
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Virginia
Email: nicolewiseberg@yahoo.com
Undergraduate School: University of Pennsylvania
Summer Employer: Center for Law and Education
City, State: Washington, DC
Job Title: Legal Intern
Job Description: Focused on education law and policy, and ensuring that every student receives the adequate education afforded to them by most state constitutions. Responsible for research and revision of "Instruction" module of Educational Quality Bill of Rights document to be adopted as a model in Arizona for subsequent lobbying of Congress for national implementation. Translated document into Spanish.
CORPORATE/MISCELLANEOUS
Name: Caroline Bissett
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: New York
Email: cebiss@aol.com
Undergraduate School: College of William & Mary
Summer Employer: NYC 2012 Olympic Bid Committee
City, State: New York, NY
Job Category: Corporate
Job Title: Operations Intern
Job Description: assisted in drafting venue leases, securing hotel block agreements, reviewing guarantee letters.
Name: Paul Borr
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: prb42526@yahoo.com
Undergraduate: University of Florida
Summer Employer: Summer Abroad in Spain
Job Title: student
Name: Matthew Holden
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: New York
Email: mh1942@law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Emory University
Summer Employer: Lehman Brothers Inc.
City, State: New York, NY
Job Category: Corporate
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: I worked in the Corporate Advisory Division for the Transaction Management Group. This group of attorneys focused on mitigating risk related to structured finance deals for the firm. Deal types included Collateralized Debt Obligations, Credit Default Swaps, and Credit Linked Notes. Responsibilities included drafting contract templates for CDS and CLN deals, working with outside counsel to draft trade confirmations, and auditing past trades to ensure that they conformed with the confirmations that our group put in place.
Name: Karina Musella
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: kmmusella@yahoo.com
Undergraduate: Florida Atlantic University
Summer Employer: study abroad
Name: Sam Nong
Class of: Class of 2005
State From: California
Email: samnong305@aol.com
Undergraduate School: San Jose State University
Summer Employer: Tyco Inc.
City, State: Boca Raton, FL
Job Category: Corporate
Job Title: Summer Associate
Job Description: Review and revise contracts. Draft amendments, riders and addendums. Legal research corporate governance and compliance issues.
Name: Hunter Norton
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: hn0341@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Excelsior College
Summer Employer: Progressive Insurance Co.
City, State: Miami, Fl.
Job Category: Corporate
Job Title: Legal Clerk
Job Description: Draft memoranda, attend mediations, depositions and trials.
Name: Danielle Reich
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: New York
Email: dr7566@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Binghamton University
Summer Employer: Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
City, State: New York, NY
Job Category: Corporate
Job Title: Intern, Intellectual Property and Publishing
Job Description: Worked for the Director of Intellectual Property and Publishing Rights for Marvel. Dealt with issues arising from both domestic and international trademark, copyright and licensing for Marvel's properties including Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men, etc.
Name: Meredith Vondra
Class of: Class of 2006
State From: Florida
Email: mv4966@students.law.miami.edu
Undergraduate School: Tulane University
Summer Employer: Congressional Youth Leadership Council
City, State: Washington, D.C.
Job Category: Corporate
Job Title: Faculty Advisor
Job Description: Taught high achieving 7th and 8th grades leadership and history through experiential learning.
