Resume of Christopher J. Quinn

Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis, MO
J.D., May 1993

• Class Rank: 59/205
• Staff Member and Associate Editor,
  Washington University Law Quarterly

University of Notre Dame London Law Center, London, England
Notre Dame Law School Summer Study Program, 1991

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
B.A. with High Honor, June 1990

• G.P.A.: 3.719 (4.0 Scale)
• Member, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
• Recipient, M.S.U. Student Radio Honorarium

Christopher J. Quinn, Attorney At Law, Saint Louis, MO
04/2005 to present

• Contract attorney for out-of-state lawyers requiring local counsel in Missouri.
• Attended party and witness depositions in mass tort cases.

Brown & Crouppen, P.C., Saint Louis, MO
08/2001 to 03/2005

• Litigation associate of large plaintiffs' law firm with unusually heavy case load. Responsible for all aspects of litigation in numerous personal injury, product liability, medical negligence and other civil matters from pleading to trial. Managed trial docket, researched legal issues, drafted pleadings, drafted and argued motions, deposed expert and lay witnesses.
• Tasked with primary responsibility for litigating cases in rural Eastern Missouri. Litigated cases in U.S. District Court and at least 18 Missouri counties; tried cases to verdict in at least 6 Missouri counties.

Steven Schumaier & Associates, P.C., Saint Louis, MO
02/2001 to 08/2001 (death of principal)

• Senior litigation associate of law firm with emphasis on medical malpractice and product liability litigation. Responsible for all aspects of litigation in numerous state and federal personal injury, product liability, medical negligence and other matters from pleading to trial. Managed trial docket, researched legal issues, drafted pleadings, drafted and argued motions, deposed expert and lay witnesses.
• Administered firm's local area network, file server, proxy server, domain name registration, Internet e-mail and web servers.

Mpower Communications, Inc. / Primary Network, Inc.,
Saint Louis, MO
1999 to 2001

• Corporate Technical Support Supervisor for rapidly-growing Internet service provider (ISP) and telecommunications company.
• Supervised department tasked with providing front-line technical support to important commercial clients. Resolved technical problems with clients' T1, DSL, ISDN and modem connections, Internet e-mail and web servers, router and network configuration and Internet software.
• Developed custom reports of Nortel Symposium Call Center Server data using Seagate Crystal Reports, SQL and Microsoft Visual Basic.

Ray B. Marglous & Associates, Saint Louis, MO
1993 to 1999

• Managed civil litigation for small plaintiffs' law firm. Responsible for all aspects of litigation in numerous state and federal personal injury, product liability, medical negligence and other matters from pleading to trial. Managed trial docket, researched legal issues, drafted pleadings, drafted and argued motions, deposed expert and lay witnesses, tried jury cases, briefed and argued appeals in the Missouri Court of Appeals and the Missouri Supreme Court.
• Administered small local area network and provided computer assistance and training to other attorneys and staff members.

Extensive Computer and Networking Experience

• Mastery of numerous operating systems and software packages.
• Proficient in several programming and scripting languages.
• Experienced in network and server configuration and administration, DNS, Web site development and design, database development and SQL.
• Configuration and administration of my own Internet e-mail and web servers, using Linux (SuSE), Apache, Sendmail, Postfix, PHP, MySQL and other server software.