Legal Experience

• Handle primarily family law and criminal matters.
• Practice includes conflict counsel appointments in juvenile dependency and delinquency cases and IV-D Counsel position for Lehigh County.

• Handled primarily worker’s compensation and civil litigation cases. 
• Conducted hearings, depositions of expert and lay witnesses, client    interviews, discovery and motions practice.

• Prepared and tried juvenile and adult criminal cases from discovery phase to closing argument. 
•  Prepared and litigated pre and post trial motions and appellate briefs. 

Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Assistant District Attorney        

• Handled hundreds of bench and jury trials from charging phase through conclusion of case.     
• Jury trials included charges such as attempted murder, aggravated assault, burglary, and gun point robbery. 
• Prepared and litigated pre and post trial motions such as motions to suppress physical evidence and drafted memoranda of law on various procedural, evidentiary and substantive issues.
• Generated charging documents, approved arrest warrants and conducted preliminary hearings.  

Masterson Braunfeld, Associate           Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

• Drafted opinions in civil, matrimonial, and juvenile matters.
• Prepared legal memoranda and conducted research in conjunction with civil and matrimonial pretrial motions. 
• Acted as Court appointed mediator for Small Claims Court.

• Researched and drafted opinions in response to civil pretrial motions.