Professional Qualifications

Active member, Washington State (USA) Bar Association, since November 2001

Experience

Legal Officer (Appeals Division), Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (United Nations), The Hague, Netherlands
June 2008 - present
• Draft final and interlocutory prosecution appeals to judgments, sentences and other Trial Chamber decisions.
• Represent the Prosecutor in oral arguments before the Appeals Chamber.
• Draft responses to defense appeals, among them the appeal of Col. Mile Mrkšić in a case in which the Appeals Chamber affirmed Mrkšić’s convictions and sentence. See Prosecutor v. Mile Mrkšić and Veselin Šljivančanin.
• Advise trial teams on legal issues.

Legal Officer (Trial Division), Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (United Nations), The Hague
January 2007 - June 2008
As part of a team of attorneys, analysts and investigators, successfully prosecuted a general for war crimes. See Prosecutor v. Rasim Delić. Duties included:
• Interviewing and conducting in-court direct examinations of witnesses, including victims, high-ranking “insiders” and experts;
• Collaborating with the team’s chief trial attorney to make decisions regarding all aspects of the prosecution, including witness selection, evidence analysis and overall strategy;
• Drafting motions, briefs and other pleadings, and
• Leading prosecution team’s legal technology strategy.

Associate Legal Officer, Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (United Nations), The Hague
August 2005 - December 2006
• Wrote successful Appeals Chamber brief.
• Revised major portions of an Indictment in a complex war-crimes prosecution.
• Conducted in-field interviews of war-crimes suspects and other witnesses.

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
Criminal Division, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Seattle, Washington, USA
October 2001 - August 2005 (with leave of absence, January - July 2004)
• Tried more than 40 criminal cases before judges and juries in the twelfth largest county in the United States, winning convictions for (among others) arson, extortion and serious assault.
• Analyzed and filed into King County Superior Court hundreds of felony referrals from police investigators.
• Advised police on search warrants, ongoing investigations and general legal issues.
• Briefed and argued cases before the Washington State Court of Appeals.

Legal Intern, Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (United Nations), The Hague
January - July 2004
• Drafted motions and memoranda of law, interviewed witnesses, consulted on trial strategy and otherwise assisted prosecutors in the yearlong trial of a general and a colonel convicted of murder and plunder in Bosnia and Herzegovina. See Prosecutor v. Enver Hadžihasanović and Amir Kubura.
• Served as primary legal adviser in the pre-indictment stage of a case involving, among other things, the massacre of civilians.

Legal Intern
Fraud Division, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Seattle
June 2000 - June 2001
Screened, filed and prosecuted consumer-protection and environmental criminal cases, including those against unbonded and uninsured contractors who cheated their customers.

Law Clerk
U.S. Department of Justice, Seattle
Summer 1999
• Wrote memoranda of law on various issues, including the constitutionality of an accused child molester’s confession to FBI agents and the admissibility of the fruits of a police officer’s search of a motel room.
• Wrote successful Ninth Circuit appellate brief in a drug-forfeiture case.

Education

University of Washington School of Law, Seattle
Juris Doctor, June 2001

The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, with honors, minor in Political Science, May 1996

Other Professional Experience

Internet News Producer KING 5 TV, Seattle
February - September 1998
Selected stories and edited audio, text and images for the NBC affiliate’s Web page.

Copy Editor
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle
October 1997 - February 1998
Edited and wrote headlines for stories in the news sections of what was then Washington’s largest morning daily.

Writer/Editor, Copy Editor
MSNBC.com, Redmond, Washington, USA
October 1996 - October 1997
Wrote and prepared news packages for the interactive edition of the international, 24-hour cable and Internet news service, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC.

Reporting Intern
The Seattle Times, Seattle
May - October 1996
As general assignment and crime reporter, wrote about, among other things, the death of a girl after whom a gun-safety bill was introduced in the Washington Legislature and the unintended consequences of an anti-terrorism bill on immigrants in Seattle.

Inter alia

• Former Webmaster for Innocence Project Northwest: Arranged for and oversaw development of the non-profit organization's first Website (launched January 2000), including logo identity, Web page design and content development.
• Once flew a vertical loop in an F/A-18 Hornet while on a demonstration ride with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.