Michael Grant

Legal Administrative Aide at The Board of Elections of Nassau County

Great Neck, New York, United States

About

Experienced Law Clerk with a demonstrated history of working in the legal services industry, and a focus on voting rights. Skilled in Microsoft Word, English, Microsoft PowerPoint, Customer Service, and Microsoft Office. Strong legal professional with a Doctor of Law (J.D.) focused in Law from Brooklyn Law School.

Experience

  • Deputy County Attorney at Nassau County Attorney's Office
    Feb 2021 - Dec 2021 · 11 mos

    Defended Nassau County against claims of municipal liability. Represented Nassau County in 50-h hearings and investigated matters through motion practice, depositions, and discovery.

  • Legal Researcher, Administrative Aide, Early Voting Coordinator, Election Day Rover at The Board of Elections of Nassau County
    Feb 2019 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Interface with constituents. Research recent changes to election law. Advise on campaign finance issues. Verify thousands of voter registrations. Process thousands of absentee ballot applications. Open, close and ran early voting polling stations. Respond to and remedy voting machine hardware failures on election day. Cross train across multiple departments.

  • Field Organizer, Director of Absentee Voting at The State Senate Campaign of Anna Kaplan
    Sep 2018 - Nov 2018 · 3 mos

    Part of the field team for a successful New York State Senate campaign. File FOIA request on behalf of the campaign. Manage and recruit hundreds of volunteer phone bankers and canvassers. Direct constituency outreach and communications. Organize campaign events. Executed “get out the vote” activities which involved a three hundred percent increase of previous outreach efforts. Contact hundreds of absentee ballot voters to secure their right to vote. Train for poll watching and election day voter protection.

  • Attorney at The Law Office of Justin A. Zeller
    Sep 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Engage in trial preparations from start to finish, including client intake and assessment, drafting and filing motions, attend settlement hearings, and draft opening and closing statements for trial. Attend hearings. Research issues of law, and draft memos of such. Calculate cost of damages to client in minimum wage and unpaid overtime cases.

  • Civil Rights Legal Fellow at The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
    Jan 2017 - Sep 2017 · 9 mos

    Conduct legal research and draft internal memos regarding tax exempt organizations, Title VI, VII, IIX of the 1964 Civil rights Act; history and legal issues that arise from the Boycott Divestment and Sanction movement’s actions. Investigate claims of Anti-Semitism on college campuses by interviewing witnesses and reviewing news articles. Draft memorandum advising tax exempt organizations on operations, including the effects of Title VI, VII, IIX of the 1964 Civil rights Act; by synthesizing history and legal issues that arose from the Boycott Divestment and Sanction movement’s actions, by, inter alia, investigating claims of Anti-Semitism on college campuses by interviewing witnesses and reviewing news articles, as well conducting legal research.