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Remote

Remote

• Partners with sales and operations teams to close deals by negotiating and advising on agreements and issues relating to the sale of NPM’s technology, paying agent, and broker-dealer services.
• Drafts and negotiates agreements related to private fund and private securities offerings and consistently refines NPM’s template language to be more efficient and streamlined
• Stays current on financial products, brokerage services, data privacy, and employment laws and regulations
• Assists in the creation and building out of NPM’s technology platform for private company trading
• Participates in cross-functional M&A due diligence
• Creates processes for tracking vendor agreement renewal terms and notifications in Salesforce

Remote

Remote

• Advised company founded in November 2020 on labor and employment law matters, including compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and Fair Credit Reporting Act.
• Created and implemented the company’s first hiring policy and drafted employee consent to background check with disclosures
• Drafted and created templates of residential and commercial customer contracts for the sale of services; drafted the company’s first residential and commercial customer contract templates
• Consulted on Department of Transportation compliance and insurance requirements; enabled company to legally hire company drivers
• Reviewed and negotiated commercial leases and applicable laws and regulations to ensure compliance; guided company owners to make strong legal decisions while building new company
• Identified strategies to mitigate legal risk to company and presented options and recommendations to company owners

Plymouth, MN

• Practiced civil litigation on consumer collection matters for 20+ financial institutions for nationally recognized mid-size law firm. Trained and managed 100+ staff office ensure legal compliance with Federal and state.
• Negotiated and drafted settlement agreements with opposing party and counsel to resolve matters outside of court; settled nearly all assigned cases outside of court
• Independently managed an average of 230 contested files, 30% more contested files than any other associate attorney in the practice group; was the only associate attorney to manage a practice group
• Decided litigation path and resolution for financial institution clients on collection matters as plaintiff’s counsel, while providing them with legal and policy advice throughout the entire litigation cycle
• Exceeded 95%-win rate, saving clients the costs of going to trial by obtaining judgment on motion
• Created the law firm’s first manual for managing cases with LegalTracker software; saved attorneys’ time communicating with clients about cases and increased transparency of case management

Minneapolis, MN

• Negotiated, structured, and closed technology and science based agreements, strategic alliance agreements, and teaming agreements with private companies, non-profit organizations, and Federal, state, and local.
• Reviewed federal, state, local, and education request for proposal (RFPs) and request for information (RFIs) applications and managed grants and contracts through their lifecycles, from acceptance through closeout
• Executed due diligence required to protect the University’s intellectual property rights prior to each transaction including assignment of inventions, non-compete agreements, and non-solicitation agreements; allowed.
• Hosted technical presentation regarding the university’s research contract process at the annual Sponsored Projects Symposium with hundreds of participants
• Produced a standardized non-disclosure agreement (NDAs) for the university’s Technology Leadership Institute; eliminated time previously spent negotiating agreements so graduate students had more time to research and.

Edina, MN

• Partnered with sales team to close deals by negotiating, drafting, and creating template agreements and contract playbooks relating to the sale of Blackbaud’s philanthropic activity management SaaS, software license.
• Prepared and led presentations and trainings to advise staff on utilization of the company’s legal team and its contracts, resulting in improved team collaboration and more efficient product sales
• Advised Chief Financial Officer, identifying legal risk to the company and strategies to mitigate such risks
• Implemented use of Salesforce to manage contracts, using metrics to rate clients by dollar amount and amount of liability company took on to determine whether company should continue doing business with them
• Researched data privacy and security regulations; ensured company complied with local (MN Government Data Practices Act), National (CCPA) and international (GDPR) requirements while working with customers’ data

Lansing, MI

Provided legal services and advice to the Chief Engineer for the agency on actions involving Government contract law and fiscal law issues and concerns.Researched Army regulations, Michigan State law, US Federal law, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice to draft legal opinions on over 25 files regarding various legal issues for the 12,000 person.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science