kristen mueller

* Civil litigation associate, focusing primarily on real estate, contract, and tort litigation: * Adverse possession * Boundary line, easement & license * Breach of contract * Breach of fiduciary duty * Cooperative & condominium disputes * Employment & non-compete agreements * Fraud * Insurance coverage disputes * Judgment enforcement & collections * Landlord-tenant dispute * Lien priority & quiet title * Mechanic’s liens * Mortgage foreclosure * Negligence * Nuisance, trespass & property damage * Partition & sale * Personal injury & wrongful death * Salvage & recoupment * Secured creditors’ rights * Subrogation * Time of the essence & specific performance

Senior litigation associate practicing commercial and school law at a firm representing 55 school districts across Long Island and Westchester County. Experience in cases involving complex contract and real property tax issues, Article 78 proceedings, proceedings involving rate cases of the NYS Public Service Commission, and labor negotiations and arbitration.

* Worked remotely under partner of patent and trademark firm based in Los Angeles * Researched legal issues involved in filing new trademarks and patents * Drafted responses to trademark office actions issued by the USPTO examining attorney.

* Represented death row inmates in collateral proceedings before Tennessee trial courts, Criminal * Court of Appeals, and Tennessee Supreme Court * Collaborated with team of co-counsel, investigator, and paralegal to develop and execute strategy * for investigating new evidence, witness interviews, and engagement of experts * Analyzed trial record and newly discovered evidence for issues challenging conviction or sentence * Researched legal issues as well as related mental health and scientific issues * Drafted petitions and motions in trial, appellate, and supreme courts * Handled communication and meetings with clients, witnesses, and experts.

* Represented clients in felony and murder appeals in state courts and on a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court * Responsible for reading appellate record, identifying and researching issues, and writing opening & reply briefs, petitions for rehearing, petitions for leave to appeal, and various motions * Successfully persuaded appellate court to overturn convictions and order: new trials, new * sentencing and evidentiary hearings, and substantial reductions in sentences and fines * Granted oral argument seven times before appellate court and won relief in all seven appeals * Prepared other attorneys for oral argument * Reviewed other attorneys’ analysis & pleadings in cases where no appealable issues were found * Handled communication directly with clients and their families.

* Worked under solo practitioner at busy family law firm in downtown Chicago * Drafted pleadings, attended court calls, and prepared matters for trial * Handled extensive client communication * Prepared for and assisted with depositions.

Miami-Dade County, Appeals Division.