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Canyon College

Kara Krystina Ostroski, JD
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

August 1999-Present
The Legal Recruiting Group
Dallas, Texas

Firm Administrator: Responsible for all aspects of recruiting firm's management including daily operations, financial operations, human resources and benefits administration, and marketing campaigns; serves as corporate liaison between recruiting firm and corporate executives; conducts all corporate recruiting which includes actively recruiting and identifying internal candidates, pre-screening individuals, interviewing selected candidates, verifying references, and negotiating salary and compensation packages; manages employee performance review process; coordinates employee computer training, orientation, seminars and continuing education; assists corporate executives with designing new corporate policies and procedures manual while modifying existing procedures; implements company corporate policies and guidelines; monitors corporate overhead budget; assists with annual budget.

Recruiting Director: supervises recruiting staff consisting of recruiting coordinators and sales professionals for a boutique, high-end recruiting firm specializing exclusively in the placement of attorneys for select national, as well as, international law firms and corporate legal departments across the United States; monitors all employee sales-tracking records establishing weekly, monthly and long-range goals and objectives while increasing employee's productivity and profitability; drafts all placement-fee agreements for clients of recruiting firm; drafts offers of employment to firm's candidates.

October 1998- July 1999
Robert Half International
Dallas, Texas

Recruiter: Specialized in the recruitment of attorneys and support professionals for law firms and corporate legal departments across the United States; marketed to managing partners and general counsel of international corporations a tailored presentation reducing overhead employment expenses and increasing revenue for their organizations; consulted with human resource representatives and managers therein to provide interim and full-time professionals in the fields of accounting, finance and information technology; presented career strategy seminars to schools and professional organizations.

ADMISSION: Active Member of the State Bar of Texas since November 1998.

November 1998- Present
Plano, Texas

Attorney At Law: Draft corporate charters, bylaws and unanimous written consent in lieu of organizational meetings; maintain corporate records, prepare minutes, tailor employee contracts not to compete and review contracts for the sale of goods; research intellectual property issues for Internet start-up venture; address additional enterprise law issues for corporations; handle real property disputes for select Joint Ventures; research attorney advertising requirements for United Client Services’s representative attorneys throughout the United States; make appearances in state court.

LEGAL EDUCATION:
J .D. awarded May, 1998
Roger Williams University School of Law
Bristol, Rhode Island

Honor Grade: Legal Methods II (Moot Court)
Awards: CALI EXCELLENCE FOR THE FUTURE AWARD (Legal Methods II)
Activities:
Pennsylvania Law Society- Co-Founder and President
Criminal Law Society-Vice President and Delta Theta Phi Fraternity
Certified By Rhode Island Supreme Court to Practice Law Under The Supervision Of The Office Of The Attorney General
BAR/BRI Bar Review Course Representative

Intersession 1997-1998
Pepperdine University School of Law
Malibu, California

Inns of Court School of Law
London, England
Summer 1996

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:
B.A. Communications awarded May, 1995
B.A. History awarded May, 1995
University of Scranton
Scranton, Pennsylvania

Dual Major: Communication and History
Minor: Criminal Justice
Honors: Dean’s List, Phi Alpha Theta, International Honor Society in History
Alpha Epsilon Alpha, Honor Society in Communication
Activities:
Secretary/Treasurer Freshman Class
President’s Royal Ambassador

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
Program Chair for Dallas Network of Career Women
Plano Chamber of Commerce 1999-2000
Member of Solo and Small Firm Practice Committee
Member of the Dallas Networking Women’s Organization