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0-5 years of experience
Revitalized the Procurement Department for New Mexico’s largest casino corporation by implementing updates to the procurement systems, producing more efficient staffing and less waste. Led compliance actions, negotiations, litigation, business transactions and contracts in the highly regulated gaming industry.
- Created and negotiated contractual agreements and in the process diminished the turnaround time for documents from approximately 27 days to an average of 6 days.
- Wrote, enforced and reviewed procedures and policies to guarantee compliance with federal, local, state and tribal rules and regulations, reducing penalties for violations by 47%.
- Orchestrated procedures for internal reviews to verify conformance with law and regulations.
- Authored corporate documents, advisory letters and court pleadings.
- Supervised staff attorneys, supporting their training and skill development.
0-5 years of experience
Fortune 100 aerospace and defense provider averaging $55 billion in annual sales with 200,000 employees worldwide. Responsible for legal matters of company’s premier front-end organization; including contracts, intellectual property, M&A, licensing and compliance.
- Provided legal support and guidance on capture of multiple high dollar-value contracts.
- Conducted successful legal defense of critical high-dollar technology programs when threatened with termination by US Government agencies, which included the U-2 and F-117 programs.
- $10+ million in annual income generated by cross-industry licensing of intellectual property assets to large retail and manufacturing corporations.
- Directed drafting and prosecution of patent and trademark applications for intellectual property protection and commercial exploitation.
- Key contributor to capture of $100+ billion government design and development contract by providing legal contract and intellectual property guidance to stakeholders.
- Protected millions of dollars in revenue by achieving reinstatement of company’s sole source contracts, directing outside counsel in legal actions to prevent forfeiture of critical intellectual proprietary and data rights.
- Created revenue streams by developing intellectual asset management program that included invention disclosures, employee recognition and rewards programs and intellectual asset commercialization.
- Provided contractual and intellectual property legal support to prevent forfeiture of $100 billion contract when inadvertent contractual duplication of services and resulting budget overrun threatened potential proposal disqualification by Government.
0-5 years of experience
Supervised legal staff of 30 in gathering documentation to prepare responses to OCC Consent Order requests and exams.
- Reviewed and analyzed business practices and proposals to ensure compliance with federal and state
- Performed broad spectrum of litigation caseload management activities.
- Organized responses for federal regulator audits and exams, collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory issues.
0-5 years of experience
- Created and revised corporate policies and procedures to comply with both federal and local law throughout more than fifty (50) jurisdictions
- Developed, structured and launched the company’s gift card program, including maintaining compliance with federal and local regulations
- Managed all pending and active litigation – representing approximately $20MM in claims – and directed the company’s outside counsel
- Developed and implemented the company’s federal contractor compliance program
0-5 years of experience
- Mediated litigated claims of regulatory and Consumer Fraud Act violations against a temporary employment agency which resulted in a $175,000 settlement in favor of the corporation.
- Terminated an unfavorable delivery services contract and settled a $10,000 unpaid transportation bill in exchange for title to $15,000 worth of new in box appliances and electronics by leveraging a warehouseman’s lien under Article 9.
- Negotiated new leases for relocation of two company controlled warehousing facilities to reduce expenses by a total of $60,000 annually.
- Adjusted commercial insurance limits after analyzing risk of loss versus value of operations to reduce overall premiums by $14,000.
0-5 years of experience
Perform first legal and compliance review, analysis, and communication of all changes in federal, state and local laws and regulations, affecting $300 billion mortgage servicing business.
- Managed legal review, drafting, revision, negotiation, and enforcement of all third party vendor contracts and agreements, including property management agreements, purchase and sale agreements, broker agreements, and internal affiliate services agreements.
- Overhauled entire population of existing significant vendor agreements to make compliant with new regulatory requirements.
- Provided daily legal counsel and guidance to executives, management, and staff.
10+ years of experience
Directed all phases of litigation in state and federal courts, including pleading, discovery, court conferences, motions, and trials. Handled matters in-house and managed outside litigation counsel. Negotiated settlements, including pre-litigation matters. Advised client departments, including fraud department, sales and collections.
- Advised Special Investigations Unit regarding its procedures, negotiated settlements with providers’ attorneys and assisted in responding to law enforcement and regulatory agency subpoenas.
- Defended multiple lawsuits brought by a non-participating provider, resulting in favorable decisions regarding the non-assignability of benefits contracts and a cessation of such lawsuits by the provider.
- Managed litigation involving multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans suing multiple defendants who performed unnecessary procedures, resulting in multi-million dollar recoveries.
- Coordinated among several areas of the company responses to subpoenas from the New York Attorney General and the United States Department of Labor.
- Managed litigation brought by broker who had been terminated for fraudulently marketing and obtaining group coverage under a government program resulting in the withdrawal of the lawsuit.
0-5 years of experience
- Established the U.S. operations of Sinochem Corporation which is a subsidiary of the Chinese National Government.
- Oversee the Acquisition and Development of the $1.7 billion dollar Permian properties that are subject to the joint venture with Pioneer Natural Resources.
- Supervise the H1-B visa program for the 12 Chinese nationals that were employees of Sinochem
- Review all non-oil and gas contracts which included offices, apartments, transportation, credit, office rental space, etc.
- Oversee the syndication of and additional $1 billion in reserve based lending for the future development of stateside oil and gas projects.
0-5 years of experience
- Advise 80 plus employees on title issues, real estate settlement issues, corporate law, and consumer finance laws across all fifty states.
- Coordinate with all outside counsel regarding litigation matters.
- Draft and negotiate all vendor contracts.
- Negotiate and resolve all claims made against title insurance policies.
- Oversee all licensing and regulatory compliance for the corporation.
- Established a newly formed title corporation in Texas and served as the first Director of Texas Operations.
- Counsel executives and clients on ever-changing legislation affecting corporate matters such as the Dodd-Frank Act, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Compliance, and the Affordable Care Act.
0-5 years of experience
Review highly-complex leasing contracts for large, multi-million dollar tenants to ensure consistency and accuracy; request changes when necessary
- Assemble and oversee lease portfolios through approval processes
- Draft and track correspondence to clients, including following-up with timely responses
- Adhere to strict deadlines in a fast-paced, demanding environment
- Manage travel, expenses, billing, and schedule of the Associate General Counsel
- Review budget for proper billing; investigate and remedy misappropriations
- Draft, edit, and revise complex leasing contracts for small to mid-sized tenants
- Coordinate with various departments to ensure contracts reflect intended contract terms
0-5 years of experience
- Manage paralegal and corporate counsel.
- Work with Sales team to negotiate 60+ page contracts with hospital customers for healthcare technology deals ranging between $300,000 and $3mm.
- Helped launch a start-up business affiliate of the company, including drafting new agreements, launching consumer healthcare website and navigating complex regulatory issues.
- Revamped entire customer contracts and statements of work for multiple businesses within the corporate infrastructure.
- Manage outside counsel for issues involving patent infringement lawsuits and customer bankruptcy matters.
- Work with every faction of the business (Finance, Sales, Compliance, IT, Data Security, Marketing, Development, HR, and Customer Support) in making both legal and business decisions, as well as reviewing contracts, letters and marketing materials.
- Managed and resolved multiple customer disputes.
- Manage company’s copyright and trademark matters.
- Developed a new contract management system for Legal Department.
6-10 years of experience
- Manage the overall legal function by advising on all legal matters for the company’s domestic and international operations.
- Oversee, structure, draft, and negotiate company commercial transactions, including content licensing, online advertising, software licensing and IT agreements.
- Resolve a wide variety of disputes and potential claims, including IP infringement, breach of contract and employment disputes.
- Draft and negotiate employment related agreements including employment, independent contractor, non-disclosure, confidentiality, non-competition, arbitration, and settlement and release agreements.
- Manage and coordinate communications with outside counsel in assigned litigation, including reviewing briefs, memoranda and pleadings.
0-5 years of experience
- Manage a team of attorneys responsible for drafting and negotiating all client and vendor contracts in support of the twenty-two legal entities comprising the Xome family of companies.
- Transform Contracts Management department into a team of strategic business partners.
- Advise senior leadership across Xome and Nationstar regarding transactional legal matters, with a focus on contracts, technology, marketing, and business development.
- Procure, customize, and implement technology platform to manage contracts, procurement, vendor governance, licensing, and compliance workflows. Establish contracts and procurement lifecycle metrics and design reports showing performance against metrics using data extracted from said platform.
- Draft corporate policies and procedures to ensure regulatory and contractual compliance.
- Perform due diligence on numerous corporate acquisitions and divestitures.
0-5 years of experience
- Act as counsel for a nonprofit system of higher education institutions dedicated to educating students from diverse and low income backgrounds in applied fields, such as psychology, law, and nursing.
- Advise administrators, faculty, and staff members of system affiliates and departments in the areas of litigation, risk management, employment matters, student affairs, ADA matters, policy development, and contract review.
- Represent affiliates before various administrative agencies and at arbitration/mediation, in response to complaints from employees and students.
- Supervise outside counsel in litigation matters.
- Lead and facilitate training of administrators, faculty, staff members in the areas of contract review, employment, and regulatory statutes including Title IX, the ADA, and Title VII.
- Supervise various staff members of the Office of General Counsel, including Director of State Licensing and Authorization (an attorney) and department paralegal.
- Assist General Counsel with a variety of other legal matters, as needed.
0-5 years of experience
Managing Attorney & Patent Enforcement Strategy & Operations
- Retain oversight of patent enforcement organization
- Lead personnel management and organization strategies for global IP legal organization
- Oversee all hiring, performance management, compensation, and training activities
- Develop and implement organization strategies including implementation of new cross brand department structure
- Lead IP Senior Management Team
- Provide personnel management and organization guidance to IBM GC and Chief IP Counsel
0-5 years of experience
- Provide expert and strategic legal advice to shape the Human Resources department of a company that has grown from 16 to 65+ employees in less than a year
- Evaluate HRIS solutions to determine ways to “future-proof†the organization’s activities involving personnel as the company continues to grow at a rapid pace; expected savings of over $98,000 in the first year
- Handle all employee relations issues; advise the company on areas of opportunity to improve culture, retain top talent, and streamline processes; direct outside counsel on handling of sensitive employment law issues
- Review and draft all offer letters, employee covenants agreements, handbooks, SOPs, and standard forms used by the HR department
10+ years of experience
- Primary counsel to multi-billion dollar North America business units.
- Manage staff of 18 attorneys, contract advisors and paraprofessionals.
- Provide Executive Management with legal counsel on risk management, commercial operations, and regulatory issues; supervise external counsel on litigation and large-scale M&A.
- Perform complex contract drafting and negotiating in connection with strategic investments, acquisitions, dispositions and complex commercial transactions.
- Maintain extensive involvement in technology and intellectual property matters including e-commerce partnerships, content licenses, data security/privacy issues, and distribution arrangements.
0-5 years of experience
- Partner with executive leadership teams from all the business units including the Presidents, marketing, engineering, sales, clinical and regulatory affairs, providing creative and strategic business support in areas involving litigation and disputes, clinical studies, compliance, employment, business torts, marketing reviews, HIPAA/privacy, False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback concerns, FCPA, etc.
- Demonstrates a strong working knowledge of federal employment laws providing regular guidance to HR on a plethora of issues including improvement of HR policies and templates, non-compete concerns, ADA, ADEA, Title VII, PDA, employee discrimination, ERISA, FCRA, etc.
- Structure, negotiate, draft, and review complex commercial sales agreements, software agreements, employee severance agreements, licensing agreements, stocking distribution agreements, hospital GPO vendor agreements, consulting agreements, clinical study agreements, royalty agreements, etc.
- Manage outside counsel on all products liability litigation including but not limited to: overseeing of depositions, motions for summary judgment, trial strategies, mediations, post-market surveillance meetings, managing complaints, training of employees, and implementation of policies to ensure a proactive approach in effectively mitigating product liability risks to the company
- Manage government subpoenas and CID requests from the DOJ as well as investigate any allegations of employee/distributor misconduct and recommend corrective action to mitigate any identified risks
0-5 years of experience
- Administrative support to four corporate attorneys
- Facilitating execution of highly confidential documents
- Coordinate detailed International and Domestic Travel
- Assistance managing department cases / matter budgets
- Generate and distribute high-dollar volume case contingency report
- Event planning for corporate wide events
0-5 years of experience
- Primary global legal contact for all facets of the firm’s intellectual property related matters
- Negotiate and draft technology and commercial agreements, licenses and other contracts
- Develop, implement and execute policies and best practices relating to intellectual property
- Work closely with the technology business development group in due diligence exercises
- Strategize and manage the firm’s patent and trademark portfolios and open source software
0-5 years of experience
- Securities / Compliance
- Executive Compensation and Benefits
- Corporate Governance
- Commercial Contracts
- Counseling
- Legal Department Management
- Special Projects
0-5 years of experience
- Expertly delivers on all aspects of executive administrative support to Global Head of Regulatory Affairs and Associate General Counsel of a financial services company with over 10,000 employees
- Schedule meetings, update calendars daily, mail distribution
- Prepare documents (Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint) as needed
- Receive and screen communications including electronic mail and voicemail
- Back-up support to office manager for Chief Legal Officer
- Support newly hired Lawyers in Legal department as needed
- Arrange business travel, domestic and international with prepared itineraries
- Process expense reports and travel reports
0-5 years of experience
- Serve as lead in-house legal counsel for corporate transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions (including the company’s sale to [company name] 2016) and equity and debt financings. Responsibilities consist of the negotiation of key business terms, drafting of operative agreements and supervision of outside counsel and other advisors.
- Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts across all business units and functions, including technology and content licensing and services, sales-based advertising and marketing, real estate, consulting and non-disclosure.
- Advise company management and board of directors with respect to corporate governance and securities matters, such as fiduciary duties, disclosure requirements, NYSE and SOX compliance, and investor relations.
- Draft and review SEC filings, including annual, quarterly and current reports, definitive proxy statements and Section 16 filings.
- Collaborate on intellectual property, data privacy, security and other regulatory matters.
- Collaborate with human resources department on equity compensation, employee stock purchase plan, employment matters and employee benefits.
- Maintain responsibility for general corporate matters, such as corporate insurance and entity management.
- Assist finance department in preparation of financial statements and tax documentation.
- Manage operations of subsidiary based in India and collaborated on joint ventures with international partners.
- Maintained leadership role in the company’s IPO, taking primary responsibility for drafting the prospectus, corresponding with the SEC, coordinating with outside counsel, underwriters and the NYSE, managing the diligence process, identifying and evaluating corporate governance issues, supervising the selling stockholder process and reviewing the roadshow and other marketing materials.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide timely counsel to company management and managers with respect to a variety of legal topics including labor and employment, corporate management, finance and OSHA matters.
- Draft, review and revise internal governance policies and monitor compliance; draft training materials and provide employee training on legal matters.
- Research and evaluate different risks regarding business decisions and operations; provide proactive advice.
- Draft, review and revise corporate agreements with clients and vendors.
- Collaborate with external counsel and communicate closely with company officers and employees with respect to various litigation matters (e.g. non-compete or discrimination claims); support depositions (preparation and actual); respond to or follow up with written discovery requests; collect and review documents and information; interview company personnel; work with external counsel with respect to various motions, counterclaims; negotiate settlement.
6-10 years of experience
- Draft and negotiate various standard and non-standard contracts supporting business needs and initiatives, including service agreements, NDAs, Business Associate Agreements, vendor agreements, commission plans, and independent contractor agreements.
- Provide legal advice regarding strategy and course of action on various company matters, including employment/HR, marketing/communications, HIPAA, and intellectual property.
- Work closely with various business teams on development of new services and marketing materials to address risk, compliance, and contract issues.
- Manage litigation involving the company, including supervision of external counsel and insurance carriers and adjusters.
- Analyze and advise on data breach-related operational and regulatory compliance issues.
- Responsible for intake and processing of Subpoenas and requests for production received from individuals and counsel, including document review and analysis of producible documents.
- Provide hands-on, practical legal and business advice regarding matters affecting the company’s business.