CURICULUM VITAE
Anthony R. Pisarra is a 1994 graduate of the Boston University School of Law and is admitted to practice in Maryland.
Mr. Pisarra has over ten years experience practing trial, tax and corporate law and has had his own general practice since 2001 providing legal services to businesses, individuals and families in Montgomery County Maryland.
In addition to his commercial practice, Mr. Pisarra provides substantial reduced or no cost services to local arts organizations and other non-profit groups as well as pro bono representation of moderate and low income clients.
In addition to his legal practice Mr. Pisarra is an experienced programmer and Internet applications engineer. He provides technical consulting on electronic forensics, discovery and discovery management issues, and has written extensively on subjects including: Computer Security and Fraud · Electronic Property Rights · Electronic Privacy · Electronic Document Retention and Discovery Practice
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP Attorney Washington, DC 1998-2001
Member litigation section and criminal litigation practice group. Represented clients in large-scale commercial litigation as well as civil antitrust and corporate internal investigations.
Design and management of high-volume electronic discovery and computer based fraud investigations.
Responsible for design and oversight of intranet-based general and criminal litigation work-product retrieval and knowledge management applications.
Officeworks Internet Group Director Legal Services Gaithersburg, MD 1994-1998
Legal and tax consultant, as well as in house counsel, for business consulting group advising bio-tech and energy industry clients.
Provided organizational services, tax and litigation advice to start-up biotech and computer industry clients.
Provided advice to major energy industry clients in support of successful, multi-state claims for recovery of over $5 million in sales and use taxes previously paid on client refining and marketing operations.
EDUCATION
Boston University School of Law Boston, MA J.D., 1994
Hampshire College Amherst, MA B.A., Theater Arts 1986
SPECIAL SKILLS
Experienced Internet and Intranet Developer · Fluent knowledge: HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, JavaScript · Working knowledge: Visual Basic, C, Java · Experienced in: Windows 9x, NT, ME, XP, Macintosh, Linux and xBSD environments
INTERESTS & HOBBIES
Completed 6 month, 2100 mile Thru-hike of Appalachian Trail (May-Nov 2002) · Camping · Backcountry Skiing · Hiking · Boat Building · Long Distance Paddling · Computer Programming · Web Design
© 2005 A.R. Pisarra
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