Troy Spears, Attorney at Law

LAW OFFICE OF
TROY SPEARS
Cal. State Bar No. 190400
3600 Dimond Ave., Ste. 308
Oakland, CA 94602-2200
Telephone: 510-530-4706
www.troyspears.com

OBJECTIVE

I have been working during the past six years in two small but effective plaintiff's law firms, researching, drafting, and preparing various legal documents from initial demand letters to appeals and petitions for writ and for review. The emphasis in both of those firms was personal injury, but I have also worked on cases involving civil rights, employment discrimination, defamation and trade libel cases, anti-SLAPP motions, mass toxic torts, fraud, consumer protection (CLRA) cases, and real estate disclosures. I have experience in both the California and Federal court systems.

During my brief foray into litigation, I found that my strengths and interests are in the gathering of facts and legal authority and preparing an objective summation. I am highly proficient at Internet research and current office applications on a variety of operating systems. I am currently enrolled in night and evening courses studying networks, computer architecture, UNIX/LINUX operating systems, and web programming. In the near future, I expect to be working on creative solutions for the legal profession using information technology. I also hope to become knowledgeable with the encroachment of future technologies on traditional rights.

EMPLOYMENT

RESEARCH ATTORNEY / ATTORNEY AT LAW HERSH & HERSH 601 Van Ness Avenue, Ste. 2080 San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 441-5544 Contact: LeRoy Hersh, Esq. 415-441-5544	August 1999 to July 2002 writing samples

TEMPORARY LEGAL WORK INTERIM LEGAL PROFESSIONALS 475 Sansome Street, Ste. 760 San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 397-9354	February 1999 to August 1999
Employed as a temporary employee at Farella, Braun & Martel's San Francisco office in a highly complex document production. Oversaw storage, transport & inventory of hundreds of boxes containing highly confidential documents. Assisted in coding into Concordance software. Prepared index & document descriptions of corporate client's minutes for, and communications regarding, its member, board & committee meetings, covering over 25 years

RESEARCH ATTORNEY / ATTORNEY AT LAW MACHADO & COUSINS 1500 J Street, Second Floor Modesto, CA 95354	March 1997 to January 1999 writing samples
Organized materials for mediation, arbitration, and trial in small firm emphasizing plaintiff's personal injury. Prepared exhibits, interviewed witnesses, and did all intakes of prospective clients. Researched & drafted demand letters, complaints, discovery requests & responses, meet & confer letters, law & motion points & authorities, mediation and trial briefs, and cost & interest awards. Maintained network software and did some basic network maintenance. Contact: Patricia M. Cousins, Esq., 209-521-9033

SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, K-12 Stanislaus County Office of Education 801 County Center, Three Court Modesto, CA 95355	1996-1997

BUILDING COORDINATOR Women's Faculty Club, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720	1987-1996

EDUCATION

JURIS DOCTOR John F. Kennedy School of Law Walnut Creek, California	1991-1996 writing sample
Seminar research topics: • American Legal History of the Corporation and Employment • Gender Bias (Research topic: Equal Protection for Pregnant Substance Abusers)

BACHELOR OF ARTS, LEGAL STUDIES Philosophy Minor: 32 Semester Units University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California	1984-1989
Seminar research topics: • Philosophy of Law and Government: Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche • History of the United States Drug War: 1909 to the present
Central Committee, Undergraduate Philosophy Association	1986

SKILLS

MS Office Suite, versions 97 to 2000 on PC's and Macintosh - including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Corel Office Suite for Windows, versions 6.0 through 8.0 - including including WordPerfect, QuatroPro, and Presentations. Legal research using WestLaw, Lexis, LawDesk (Folio BoundViews), and Internet and Usenet resources. Palm Computing. General research using Internet search engines and search trees, such as AltaVista, Google, and PubMed (MedLine). I develop and maintain several websites with some programming script.