Alan Bryan Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Manage team of attorneys and legal professionals overseeing large commercial litigation portfolio with a multi-million-dollar litigation budget. Engage in legal risk mitigation and provide strategic direction on litigation/claims, finances, eDiscovery, and law firm/vendor performance. Provide business advice on litigation risk and data/trend analysis. Expertise in Leadership, Litigation Matter Management, Financial Management, Risk Management, Project Management, Legal Technology, Business Advice, and Talent Development Act with servant leadership, exceptional interpersonal skills, and honed emotional intelligence in leading team of attorneys and professional staff responsible for commercial litigation portfolio. Provide strategic litigation guidance, performance feedback, and litigation-related business advice in a variety of complex commercial, employment, intellectual property, and class action matters.Maintain fiscal year litigation budgets to support outstanding and anticipated litigated matters. Advise leadership in advising corporate governance organization on legal disclosures and accruals.Give mitigation options on existing and emerging risks, as well as strategic business advice to team members and business partners.Proactively meet with legal and business executives, as well as subject matter experts, to develop strategic business advice and preventative legal strategies.Ideate, plan, and lead strategic projects for the litigation team that include data/trend analysis, strategic business advice, change management, and process improvements. Develop performance and budgeting tools to increase efficiency and save legal costs. Advise on next generation matter, knowledge, and financial management software for the legal department.Coach/manage team members, giving guidance and finding opportunities for growth. Lead associate training, engagement, communication, and development to ensure continuity of talent and team performance.

Taught first-of-its-kind Intro to Legal Operations course

Senior Associate General Counsel for Office of Outside Counsel Management for Legal Operations that oversaw internal operations and processes, as well as the relationship with all company law firms throughout the United States. Office reviewed and improved legal department processes, policies, and cost control, as well as procuring and evaluating department vendors. Oversaw internal operations and processes for company's U.S.-based legal department. Reviewed and improved legal department processes, policies, and cost control, as well as procured and evaluated department vendors. Responsible for day-to-day operational, financial, reporting operations across the legal department. Managed outside counsel through performance, cost-saving, and diversity metrics. Revised, maintained, and implemented all company guidelines for outside counsel. Responsible for all conflicts of interest, malpractice issues, legal cost management, and alternative fee arrangements, in addition to all administrative functions for law firms doing business with company. Collaboratively managed vendor procurement for legal services providers that were not traditional law firms.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Oversaw and managed relationship with all outside counsel for world’s largest retailer and Fortune 1 company. Acted as company liaison and relationship manager to approximately 900 law firms and over 20,000 active outside counsel for the company, measuring attorneys through performance, cost-saving, and diversity metrics. Revised, maintained, and implemented company outside counsel guidelines, indemnity counsel guidelines, and global market outside counsel guidelines. Responsible for all new firm recruitment, screening, and on-boarding. Manage and determine outcome of all company engagement letters, conflict waivers, business associate agreements, rate increase requests, relationship partners, timekeeper requests, disputes, and malpractice issues regarding external attorneys. Advised legal department general counsel and vice presidents on hiring and performance of outside counsel. Supervised legal cost management and implement alternative fee arrangements.Developed “Law Firm Scorecard,” alongside nationally recognized software development and analytics research company, which measures law firm diversity, company team diversity, and legal spend by demographics and firm position. Scorecard includes one of nation’s first known survey-based performance scoring modules within a case management system providing feedback for and from in-house counsel.Served as liaison to Walmart legal department strategic partners, diverse bar associations, and affinity groups including, but not limited to, Hispanic National Bar Association, National Association of Women Lawyers, National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms, National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Responsible for management of litigated matters filed against Walmart and Sam's Clubs across several states. Managed nationwide products/services high valuation tort litigation. Coordinated strategy for and served as legal department liaison to Walmart third party claims administrators in support of risk management and planning, budgeting, legal metrics and trial tactics. Oversaw high level claims adjusters in case assessment and resolution of litigated matters. Drafted protocol for direction of high level claims adjusters and outside counsel guidelines for limited valuation litigation. Developed work-product metrics tool for case assessment and valuation. Advised claims adjusters on better risk assessment and claim evaluation. Conducted continuing legal education on premises liability law for claims adjusters and attorneys. Collaborated with company attorneys to improve company contracts. Developed opportunities for litigation cost saving through streamlined discovery process in company's premises liability litigation and administered discovery strategies for production and preservation of evidence.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Served as lead and co-counsel in defense of civil lawsuits in federal and state courts at the discovery, trial, and appellate stages. Specialized in defense of civil litigation involving personal injury, property damage, medical malpractice, products liability, professional liability, strict liability, transportation law, toxic tort and insurance policy coverage. Managed commercial litigation involving breach of contract, breach of warranties, deceptive trade practices, foreclosure, liens and leasehold estates.

Juris Doctrate, Cum Laude

Bachelor'S Degree, Major: Political Science Minor: History

High School