Contact: dlamphi@gmail.com

Bar Admission: 

State of Illinois, 2000
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2000

State of Michigan, 2009

U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan, 2009

I have experience in various transactional and litigation matters, and am organized and detail oriented, as well as efficient and a seasoned multitasker. I have experience in supervising employees and shepherding projects to completion.

In my employment as an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Peter B. Carey, I had an opportunity to perform a large amount of legal research, write formal and informal memoranda on various issues, draft a variety of motions and pleadings, as well as drafting various transactional documents, including many types of contracts.  I have drafted corporate documents, estate documents, and complex correspondence.  I’ve also had extensive contact with clients and attorneys.  I am an outstanding legal writer and researcher who is meticulous about every aspect of legal writing, including analysis, style, organization, thoroughness, research, and citation.  My firm received compliments from co-counsel and judges on various cases regarding my work product.  My work almost never required more than editorial supervision on my boss’ part, and many times my boss and I worked together to achieve the best possible final product.  I’m a self-starter who rarely needs close supervision.  My boss knew he could trust me to keep track of deadlines and to hand work over to him with ample time for turnaround before the product was due.  I am also creative, often coming up with new angles and ways to come at a problem, and am quick to spot issues in my review of a case or issue.  I am a valuable asset, a good attorney, and my boss relied on me to be his right hand in his practice for many years.  All the skills I’ve acquired in the practice of law translate into assets for non-legal fields as well.

In my work as a law clerk for the Honorable Nancy J. Arnold, I researched and wrote about various issues, and observed motion practice on various cases, as well as trials.  I also had the unique opportunity to draft opinions for various administrative review cases, as the Chancery Division serves an appellate function for such matters.

My policy experience includes a website that a friend and I put together, www.GenerationDebt.org (now located at http://generationdebt.wordpress.com/), to call attention to legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress to change current Higher Education Act provisions regarding student loan consolidation, and to provide general information on that issue.  My role in GenerationDebt has been that of a legislative analyst, as well as that of a writer highlighting current news on relevant issues, posting on the website regularly, and fielding media inquiries.

I have recently begun teaching paralegal students as an adjunct faculty member at Davenport University. In that role I have been responsible for creating a syllabus and plotting the course of a newly offered class. My work there has been in the preparation of students for entry into professional legal environment, including written and oral communication skills, critical thinking, litigation procedures, substantive law, and ethics, combining legal theory with a practical focus. I also teach Business Organizations, and am responsible for creating a syllabus and plotting the course of that class.

In my third year at Loyola, I was co-chair of the Race Ipsa Loquitur, a 5k charity run to benefit the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, which required working closely with various Chicago law schools as well as bar associations, businesses and the Legal Assistance Foundation.  In my capacity as Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s Student Bar Association President, I had the opportunity to work closely with the administration at all levels to find solutions to student issues that benefited both students and the school, such as sitting on the school’s diversity board and the Alumni Board of Governors.  In addition, at the end of my second year of law school I wrote on to the Loyola Consumer Law Review and served as Publication Editor for that journal during my third year of law school.  I also planned various law school events in my three years there, shepherding such projects from start to finish.