Sarah Brenden

Associate Attorney with a focus on litigation

Host and facilitate the National Team tryout process for rising 2Ls Coordinate team annual and quarterly budgets and help with the travel logistics for the teams

- Client intake, interviewing, and case management - Drafting and filing legal immigration documents

- Researching and writing bench memoranda; court opinions and orders; and reports and recommendations in pending civil and criminal cases - Observing and taking notes on daily court proceedings - Analyzing and evaluating party briefs and motions

- Streamlined an online financial documentation process allowing for purchases for a remote programs transition - Structured a video process for teachers to use as a foundation of their remote program design - Systemized training materials for staff in all levels of the department. - Manage and maintain department finances, licenses, and third-party contracts. - Monitored staff and family interaction and needs due to COVID through the creation of surveys in SurveyGizmo.

 Analyze MCLE accreditation applications (Form 1s) from members and sponsors to correctly determine compliance with APR 11  Process and enter MCLE sponsor attendance  Maintain Form 1 and MCLE communication statistics in an organized manner  Conduct audits of MCLE records in general to ensure the accuracy of processes conducted within the MCLE system  Identify members who are non-compliant and should receive a pre-suspension notice

- Coordinating the logistics and materials used for monthly trainings for judges, public prosecutors, and police surrounding topics on child sexual assault - Assisting with the writing of organizational monitoring documents like end-line and impact studies - Writing and Revision of hiring documents such as Decision Memos and Contracts - Maintaining the organization of team milestones on Teamwork as well as the team calendar - Maintaining the quantitative and qualitative of the data of the System Reform team on Excel and Tableau - Setting and maintaining project budgets as well as coordinating the budget and services of outside providers for events and the production of materials - All work done in Spanish

-Managing a group of over 90 college students in a simulation of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations -Writing and extensive guide to UN policy on the Protection Needs in the Northern Triangle of Central America. - Extensive editing to the outcome documents of the committee

- Advise the Director General and Secretary General on the future conferences held by NWMUN including rules and procedure and the future committees within conferences. - Monitor the finances of the NWMUN conferences as well as the scholarship fund for students in need of financial assistance to participate

-Managed a group of over 120 college students in a simulation of the General Assembly of the United Nations -Wrote and extensive guide to UN policy on the Administration of justice and on the overall background of the General Assembly

- Graduated Cum Laude with Honors on June 19th of 2017 with a Bachelors of Arts - Deans list 13 quarters running, Annual Deans List 2012-2017 - Coursework in human rights, legal theory, and international development