Marcia Y. Phillips, Esquire

• Trained & Experienced Mediator and Negotiator.
  
  
• Extensive experience in Contract Creation, Review & Litigation.
  
  
• Extensive experience in all areas of litigation including: investigations, depositions, settlement conferences, arbitrations, mediations, trial preparation, trials, appeals. Exceptional expertise in resolving high value and high profile cases. Specialize in handling complex legal issues.
  
  
• General Counsel for non-profit organizations: Advisory role in the area of incorporation, property taxes, contract procurement, grant writing, program creation and maintenance. Reputation management and ethicist. Assisted the Executive Directors and Boards in steering the organizations through occasional complex legal challenges.
  
  
• Contract Assistant Solicitor for a local municipality. Contract creation, review and litigation; Resolutions, Workman's Comp, drafted resolutions, risk management assessment and analysis, diversity training and contract procurement. Provided on the spot legal research and analysis for management and board members. Worked closely with financial office in condemnation proceedings.
  
  
• Experienced in insurance defense including preparation of all pleadings, discovery documents, subpoenas, motions, Arbitrations, regular meaningful communication with adjusters and insured, super organized, pleasant, people oriented, acknowledgment of files, participation of trial strategy, good evaluator and strong negotiator. Experience in dealing with CSG.
  
  
• Licensed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 3rd Circuit of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Pending License in New York.
  
  
• Team-player with excellent management and communication skill. Have done extensive public speaking and facilitation. Studied Improvisational Theater at the Magnet Theater in New York
  
  
• Excellent computer skills: experience with a variety of programs such as Microsoft Excel, Outlook. Utilized Excel to analyze massive amounts of commercial data overseeing large vendor list and debts. Extensive Internet Experience. Superb Power Point Presentations.

Core legal strengths include:

Defense Work
In House Counsel Experience
Mediation & Negotiations
Public Speaking and Facilitating
Contracts and Business Matters
Superb Legal Research & Analysis
Excellent Problem Solver
Traditional and Creative Thinker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Law Offices of Marcia Y Phillips, PC
Moorestown, New Jersey
February 1994 - Present

Attorney/Owner

• Civil and Commercial litigation including but not limited to all aspects of trial preparation and work, depositions, hearings, settlement conferences, arbitrations, trials. Good business judgment; Developed great working relationships with trial experts, doctors, juries, interpreters, managers, doctors, personnel; workman's compensation claims. Acquired good communication style with judges, board of directors, professional colleagues, vendors, staff and clients.
  
  
• Plaintiff's Litigation and Insurance Defense including Trials, Arbitrations
  
  
• Document Review Experience in Securities Litigation
  
  
• General Counsel for several non-profit agencies and organizations.
  
  
• Contract Assistant Solicitor for governmental agency
  
  
• Legal Counsel for large clients with real estate office and banking legal issues.
  
  
• Work extensively in a variety of contracts.
  
  
• Continuing Public Speaker and Facilitator for various organizations including:
  
  
• The American Trial Lawyers Association
  
  
• In-Rhoads
  
  
• The Townsend Group.
  

Smith and Primas, Attorneys At Law
Camden, New Jersey
January 1991 — February 1994

Associate

Horn Kaplan Goldberg, Gorny & Daniels
Atlantic, New Jersey
September 1989 — December 1990

Associate

The Honorable Marvin N. Rimm, J.T.C.
Atlantic, New Jersey
September 1988 — August 1989

Judicial Clerk

EDUCATION:

JD, Doctorate of Jurist Prudence • Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. PA
School of Law

BA Communications • Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. PA
School of Communications