Practice focuses on assisting corporate in-house legal staff and senior corporate executives with special projects, day-to-day work, and overflow work. Regular clients include a multi-million dollar not-for-profit health system and a business-to-business telecommunications services provider.
Typical Matters
- Manage multiple litigation counsel in complex class action litigation successfully controlling costs and reducing outside counsel legal fees by more than 7 percent.
- Assist in-house counsel in directing extensive project to implement a legal matter management and billing database. Projects included: negotiating the software agreement; reviewing business practices and creating business rules; organizing legal matters; drafting outside counsel policy geared to ensure oversight by in-house counsel which has led to a reduction in legal fees, and, overseeing implementation of the database.
- Conduct internal investigations on critical employment and document retention issues.
- Assist in–house counsel and senior executives in drafting and revising internal company and governance policies to ensure inclusion of latest legal developments, consistency and clarity.
- Assist in-house counsel in structuring and overseeing a privileged company-wide audit on corporate policy adherence.
- Prepare and negotiate numerous customer and vendor contracts.
Relevant Experience
- As Associate Counsel at GMAC Mortgage Corporation, managed 50-70 outside law firms to control litigation process and outcomes and reduce legal fees. Managed $5-10 million budget per year. Cases involved high risk/high value matters including class action defense. Drafted, revised and negotiated numerous agreements including multi-million dollar, customer and vendor, software and hardware, and outsourcing and consulting agreements.
- As Senior Counsel at Lenox, Incorporated, provided broad-based legal counsel in such areas as intellectual property, marketing, contract disputes, bankruptcy, antitrust and internet issues. Significant experience in drafting, revising and negotiating all types of agreements. Played a major role in supporting employment issues including EEOC, FMLA, affirmative action and ADA. Drafted company policies and employment-related documents
- As an attorney at Crowell & Moring, supported government contracts and litigation with experience in employment law, health and safety, torts and products liability.