• Drafted estate planning documents for individuals and families, including wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts (including GST, insurance, minority, and Crummey trusts), health care proxies, and powers of attorney.
• Researched and wrote memoranda on tax and trust administration issues.
• Settled estates of high-net-worth decedents.
• Selected to lead Private Client Group’s efforts to cross-market to associates in other practice groups within the firm.
• Interviewed and evaluated candidates for summer associate and associate positions firmwide.
• Served as career panelist at Harvard’s Asian Pacific American Conference on Law and Public Policy (2004).
  

• Served clients as member of consulting teams.
• Identified critical jobs and determined criteria for assessing incumbents at $5 billion global medical products company.
• Managed team of client executives to reduce travel and conference costs at Fortune 100 life insurance company.
• Coached and prepared senior executives for presentation to CEO and Executive Management Committee on cost-cutting.
• Synthesized executive survey findings in memorandum on talent and human resources strategy for CEO of medical products company.

• Negotiated and finalized all bilateral documents to be signed at the fifth session of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation.
• Conducted meetings and negotiations entirely in Russian with officials at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  

• Served as back-up economic officer on the former Soviet Union desk.
• Drafted White House press release, memoranda on Russian organized crime for the Deputy Secretary of State, and briefing papers for the Vice President.
• Oversaw preparation of Congressional delegation to Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova.
  

• Led a discussion section for Science A-22: “Chance, Necessity, and Order,” a Core Curriculum course in the physical sciences taught entirely in sections.
• Graded tests and tutored students in Social Analysis 10, the introductory economics course.
• Selected by Bureau of Study Counsel to tutor fellow undergraduates in economics and Russian.
  

• Board of Directors, Abbot Academy Association (2009-present)
• Co-Chair and Member, Admission Committee of Alumni Council (2004-2008, 1998-2002)
• Executive Committee of Alumni Council (2005-2008)
• Governance Committee of Alumni Council (2007-2008)
• Nominating Committee of Alumni Council (2008)
• Chair, Bylaws Committee of Alumni Council (2007-2008)
• Search Committee for Alumni Affairs Director (2008) 
• Strategic Planning Committee of Alumni Council (2006-2007)
• Alumni Admission Representative (1996-present)
• Vice President, Andover/Abbot Alumni Association of New York (1996-98)

HARVARD SCHOOLS COMMITTEE (college admission interviewing)

• Interviewed candidates in Massachusetts and Illinois for admission to Harvard College.

HARVARD LAW SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS

• Board of Directors (2009-present)
• Co-chair, Events Committee (2011-present)
  
• Communications Committee
• Women's Networking Reception Committee

• Board of Directors (2008-2011)
• Chair, Fundraising and Finance Committee (2010-2011)
  
• Chair, Marketing and Audience Development Committee (2009-2010)
• Member, Development Committee and Community Partners Committee (2009-2010)

DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND, Chicago, IL

• Volunteer (interviewer and mentor) (2008-present)

• From ages 3 to 17, participated in nine World Esperanto Congresses and traveled to over 25 countries in Europe and Asia as a speaker of Esperanto
• At age 9, served as official representative of the U.S. at the World Esperanto Congress in Vancouver, Canada (1984)
• Attended honorary banquet by invitation of the vice-premier of China at the People’s Hall in Beijing, China (for representatives of each nation at the 1986 World Esperanto Congress in Beijing)