Kira Irene Sandusky
Kalispell,MT
Summary
Legal professional with comprehensive experience in criminal, probate, family law, personal injury, and tort cases. Proven track record in managing cases from initial complaints to final hearings, including drafting motions and conducting depositions. Skilled in client relations and maintaining composure during high-pressure court situations. Expertise in mediation and settlement negotiations, ensuring favorable outcomes for clients.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Attorney
Solo Practitioner
Kalispell, Montana
04.2022 - Current
- Managing case loads from legal and business perspective
- Advising clients regarding liabilities, rights, and obligations, transactions, and business compliance.
- Draft contracts for business clients.
- Advise and draft documents for family law clients.
- Estate planning.
- Litigate a range of matters from family law, probate, business, contracts, medical malpractice from initiation through resolution.
- Drafting all pleadings, motions, and legal documents.
- Conducting discovery, depositions, and case development.
- Negotiate settlements favorable to clients.
Attorney
Glacier Law Firm
10.2019 - 04.2022
- Focus on criminal defense, both felony and misdemeanor, family law, general civil litigation representing both plaintiffs and defendants, personal injury, medical malpractice, immigration, and contracts.
- Advising clients regarding liabilities, rights, and obligations, transaction and business compliance.
- Draft contracts for business clients.
- Interpreting statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations, etc. for clients and making arguments to the courts regarding the same.
- Analyzing and explaining the probable outcome of legal issues based on experience and past precedent.
- Interviewing and taking statements, and depositions of parties and witnesses.
- Extensive review of medical records, and conversing with expert witnesses to assess causation and damages.
- Managed a caseload of over 100 cases while progressing cases in a timely manner.
- Performing various administrative duties, completing pre-trial hearings, and negotiating plea agreements.
- Managing confidential documents and files, and executing any other duties as required.
- Estate planning and probate.
Attorney
Best & Westover Law Offices
Kalispell, MT
05.2010 - 10.2019
- Focus on criminal defense both felony and misdemeanor, family law, domestic violence, general civil litigation representing both plaintiffs and defendants, personal injury, medical malpractice, immigration, employment, and contracts.
- Develop strategies and arguments from case intake to presentation of cases for trial.
- Present evidence and exhibits during civil and criminal trials.
- Direct and cross examine witnesses during hearings and trials.
- Draft legal briefs, memoranda, rationales, opinions, findings of facts, conclusions of law, orders, witness lists, pretrial memoranda, discovery, appellate briefs, motions, and affidavits.
- Interpret, research statutes, case laws, administrative rules/opinions for clients and in briefs, including challenging legality of statutes.
- Conduct trial preparation for litigation and carry out the hearings and trials.
- Create and implement trial and settlement strategies unique to each case.
- Client relations including explaining available courses of action, potential risks, likely outcomes, and meanings of legal documents.
- Conduct settlement negotiations, draft statement of positions, settlement demands, and settlement brochures.
- Conduct depositions, interview witnesses, collect evidence, investigate claims evaluating for viability.
- Draft discovery including interrogatories, requests for admissions, and requests for productions.
- Post-judgment motions, hearings, executions, writs, and settlements.
- Perform extensive document review for large scale projects.
- Resolve Landlord tenant and home owner association disputes.
- Analyze probable outcomes of cases using knowledge of legal precedents.
Education
J.D. - School of Law
University of Connecticut
Connecticut01-2011
Bachelor of Arts -
Brigham Young University
Idaho01-2005
Skills
- Criminal
- Probate
- Family Law
- Personal Injury
- Torts
- Medical Malpractice
- Insurance Claims
- Product Liability
- Collections
- Settlements
- Mediation
Certification
State Bar of Montana, Bar number 11,888
Timeline
Attorney
Solo Practitioner
04.2022 - Current
Attorney
Glacier Law Firm
10.2019 - 04.2022
Attorney
Best & Westover Law Offices
05.2010 - 10.2019
J.D. - School of Law
University of Connecticut
Bachelor of Arts -
Brigham Young University