
Freelance writer & Owner at BleedingEspresso.com
Catanzaro Area, Italy

Freelance writer & Owner at BleedingEspresso.com
Catanzaro Area, Italy
Hard-working, reliable freelance writer who has a law degree and is fluent in Italian.
Italy, travel, law, law school, online education, SEO optimization, animals, gardening, cooking/baking.
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Write content and blog posts for online education sites owned by DomainDev, whose websites in the finance, education and business niches have over 1,000,000 readers per month.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Content writer for Degrees.info, website specializing in online education.
(Public Company; NYT; Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Create content and manage About.com's Law School site, providing information on application procedures, life in law school, studying for the bar exam, and more.
(Writing and Editing industry)
December 2006 — Present (3 years )
Manage everything involved with running BleedingEspresso.com including HTML coding, writing content, providing photographs and account management.
(Privately Held; Legal Services industry)
September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)
Write articles for website and newsletter on a wide variety of legal topics.
(Writing and Editing industry)
August 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Wrote weekly "Guarda" column highlighting videos of unique Italian events, for the N.1 Magazine for Lovers of All Things Italian.
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
August 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Compiled information on restaurants, sites, and activities for the Lamezia Terme destination guide.
(Writing and Editing industry)
July 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 11 months)
Wrote blog posts about tomatoes--growing, harvesting, nutritional value, scientific breakthroughs, recipes, etc.
(Privately Held; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
December 2008 — February 2009 (3 months)
Wrote several travel-related articles for "The Ultimate Resource for the Independent Traveller."
(Legal Services industry)
September 2003 — December 2008 (5 years 4 months)
Drafted briefs, memoranda, and motions for this law firm in Sunbury, PA. Topics included insurance, expert witnesses, medical malpractice, and personal injury.
(Medical Practice industry)
April 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Translated reports, budgets, newsletters, and communication from Italian to English and from English to Italian for Project EASY, a European Union project that involved local health care agencies in Sweden, Germany, Spain, and Italy; also interpreted at meetings.
(Privately Held; Education Management industry)
January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)
Taught elementary and intermediate English to Italian students, age 14 to adult.
(Government Agency; Judiciary industry)
September 2001 — August 2003 (2 years )
Researched, analyzed, and wrote memorandums for judge for cases on appeal, including PCRA, asbestos litigation, personal injury, property, criminal law and procedure, civil procedure, and more.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
May 1999 — May 2001 (2 years 1 month)
Located, analyzed, and coded school 4th amendment (search and seizure) cases into a database collection.
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 3 months)
As a law student, wrote case summaries for the Suburban Edition of the oldest law journal in the United States.
(Writing and Editing industry)
May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)
Worked on various cases for this now defunct law firm in Philadelphia; published The Past, Present, and Future of Environmental Insurance Including a Case Study of MTBE Litigation, Environmental Forensics, Vol. 1, No. 4. (December 2000), pp. 205-211 with co-author Kim Hollaender, Esq.
J.D. , Law , 1998 — 2001
• Research Editor of Temple Law Review
• Published A Call for Clarity: Pennsylvania Should Uniformly Allow Ex Parte Contacts with Former Employees of a Represented Party under Rule 4.2, 73 Temp. L. Rev. 101 (2001).
• Tau Epsilon Rho Law Schwartzberg Prize for best paper on professional responsibility.
• Best Paper, Family Law, Spring 2000.
• Law Faculty Merit Scholarship for academic achievement.
• Daniel J. & Frances G. Schrull Scholarship for commitment to public service.
• Robert S. Kravitz Memorial Scholarship for excellence in study of taxation.
• Participated in Project LEAP teaching legal concepts to middle school students in Philadelphia public schools
A.B. , English & history , 1994 — 1998
Graduated cum laude.
1988 — 1994
Valedictorian
When I'm not researching or writing, you'll probably find me in the garden with my two dogs, three kids (baby goats), and a book in hand.
BleedingEspresso.com was named a finalist in the 2009 Bloggies for Best European Weblog.