1. Charles T. Otis
211 12th St., Apt. D Huntington Beach, CA 92648 • (805) 680-5453 • chase.otis@gmail.com
BAR ADMISSION
California State Bar: Admitted December 2011
EDUCATION
Chapman University School of Law, Orange, CA
Juris Doctor, May 2011
Class Rank: 29/177; 16.38% GPA: 3.27 (Chapman Law Median GPA: 2.8)
Merit Scholarship (all three years)
Emphasis Certificate: International Law; Environmental, Land Use, and Real Estate Law
CALI Award (highest grade in class): Legal Research and Writing (Fall 2008); Property II (Spring 2009); Law and Developing
Countries (Fall 2009); International Law & Organizations (Spring 2010)
East China University of Political Science and Law, Summer 2009 Chinese Law Program, Shanghai, P.R.C.
GPA: 3.3
Focus: Chinese Contract, Company, Investment, Criminal, Joint-Venture, and Foreign Trade Law
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Bachelor of Arts, History, September 2007
GPA: 3.94
Highest Honors Graduate and four-time Dean’s Honors recipient
Seminar Projects: World War II; Chinese Lending Institutions; FDR’s Supreme Court Packing Plan
WORK EXPERIENCE
Independent Contractor, Orange County, CA
Legal Researcher and Writer, August 2011-Present
Research and prepare legal memoranda on California court rules and issues of civil procedure
Analyze state and federal regulations for legal memoranda evaluating client compliance
Interview clients and gather facts in order to apply law to specific, real-world scenarios
Prepare and deliver presentations detailing factual and legal findings for client companies
Electrix Telecomunicacoes S.A., Luanda, Angola
Director of Sales and Operations, June-August 2010
Supervised the distribution network and integrated supply chain
Managed: Operations and Sales; Semi-knock Down Manufacturing; Import and Distribution
Developed and implemented new inventory, accounts receivable, and logistics systems
Successful operated a company in the 164/183 most difficult country in the world to do business
Learned functional Portuguese in a fast paced, high risk business environment
Inirus LLC, Santa Clara, CA
Business Consultant, January-June 2008
Gathered program specifications from international and U.S. corporate offices and designed project execution plan for Inirus IT
development teams
Successfully managed and finalized development, testing, rollout, and training phases for inventory, sales, logistics, accounts
receivable, and billing programs
New Cycle Capital, Menlo Park, CA
Personal Assistant, October 2007-January 2008
Actively engaged in investor outreach and relations
Due diligence on company finances and compliance
Created and implemented opportunity pipeline and task management systems
United States Department of Commerce, Washington D.C.
Assistant Business Liaison to the World Bank Group, Internship, Spring Semester 2007
Produced company profile briefs for U.S. Executive Director’s Office to the World Bank
Company compliance due diligence: U.S. State, Commerce, and Treasury Departments
Identified and evaluated World Bank funded procurement opportunities for U.S. companies
ASSOCIATIONS AND INTERESTS
Orange County Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association (International Law and Real Estate Sections), Beverly
Hills Bar Association (Real Estate and Estates and Trusts Sections)
Land Use and Real Estate Law, International Trade and Business Law, Chinese Law, International Legal Reform, Traveling,
Languages, Running, Surfing