Representative Experience

• Represented a major global research institution in negotiating a profit sharing contract, in Spanish and English, with the Panamanian government
• Developed and implemented a multinational corporation’s internal controls and procedures and developed a data/records retention policy for company 
• Represented local and regional businesses in connection with acquisitions and divestitures of their respective businesses
• Represented a debtor in an asset based financing in order to expand the multinational leasing company’s operations into the Louisiana market 
• Served as local counsel to restructure a multistate homebuilder company in preparation for expansion into various Gulf States 
• Assisted and advised clients on structuring and formation of minority business enterprises (MBE) and other start-up companies
  

Edward earned his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2004, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded the 2004 Outstanding Scholar Leader Award. He earned his M.A. from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2007, and won a 2008 teaching award for Excellence in Dedication to Instruction from the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society at Louisiana State University. Edward earned his J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law in 2012, where he was the recipient of the James C. Eastman Endowed Scholarship and the Thelma Casto Southard Award.

In 2011, Edward co-authored a chapter on the role of multinational, regional courts in an international law textbook. While in law school, Edward was Executive Editor of the Legislation and Policy Brief and a student attorney in the International Human Rights Clinic. Edward was also elected class representative to the Student Bar Association, elected to the Washington College of Law Executive Board, and appointed the American Bar Association Washington College of Law representative.

Admissions

• Admitted, Louisiana, 2014

Memberships

• Member, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations; American Translators Association; Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society; Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society; Maryland State Certified Volunteer Tax Assistant; Louis A. Martinet Legal Society
  

Articles, Publications and Presentations

• The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act Matters to Louisiana Industry, Louisiana Law Blog, March 18, 2016.
• Co-author, "Exploring new horizons: How Louisiana businesses can prosper in an era of Mexican energy reform," Around the Bar Magazine, October 2015
  
• The “New” Mexico: The Status of Mexico’s Energy Reform and How United States’ Companies Can Benefit, Louisiana Law Blog, April 7, 2015.
  
• "The Hobby Lobby Aftermath: What Does This Mean For For-Profit Companies?", Louisiana Law Blog, July 2014
• Panelist, "The Kean Miller Connection" Law School Prep Summer Program, July 2014
  
• Contemporary Issues and Future Problems, “Reaching Beyond the State: Judicial Independence, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Accountability in Guatemala”, 2011
• “Reaching Beyond the State: Judicial Independence, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Accountability in Guatemala” 2006 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in San Juan, PR, April 2006
• “Companies as Persons: The High Court Hears Arguments in the Hobby Lobby Case”, Louisiana Law Blog, March 2014
• “Clerkshop: A Focus on the Judiciary,” Sixteenth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law, April 2012
• Presenter, “Kean Miller Connection” Law School Prep Summer Program, August 2011
• Global Youth Connect Latin America, “2007 Global Youth Connect Guatemala (GYC) Human Rights Report”, August 2007
• Presentation and Publication, Thesis: “A Classroom Culture: Student Code-switching in an Inner City Secondary School”, August 2007
• “A Classroom Culture: Student Code-switching in an Inner City Secondary School” University of Maryland Annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC), April 2007
  

Community Service

• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Washington, DC
• UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic, Washington, DC
• Cross-Cultural Communications, LLC, Washington, DC
• Just the Beginning Foundation, Summer Judicial Internship Diversity Project, Alexandria, Virginia
• Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA
• Global Youth Connect-Guatemala, Guatemala city, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala 
• Nuestros Derechos, Guatemala city, Guatemala
• Organización Chico Méndez, village of Pachaj, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
• Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland