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Atlanta, Georgia, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Manage and oversee the legal work for a staff of in-house attorneys and administrative assistants.
• Advise, report and update the management team on board members on legal issues facing the company.
• Direct investigations and the company’s responses to inquiries, audits, and document requests from various Federal regulatory agencies and related state entities.
• Create and revise corporate policies regarding human resources, information technology, safety, operations, and risk management.
• Review and comment on SEC filings, board and committee minutes, press releases, and various other corporate governance documents
• Oversee all M&A activity, including management of both in-house and outside counsel.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Oversight of transactional agreements (including all ancillary documents) and legal due diligence for domestic and international (Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Australia, New.
• Managed and oversaw the legal work and personnel issues for several in-house attorneys and an administrative assistant.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Prepared transactional agreements (including all ancillary documents) and conducted due diligence as lead counsel for domestic mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Drafted and negotiated sales agreements, intellectual property and software licenses, banking and credit card processing agreements, supply/procurement contracts, debt instruments, indemnity agreements, equipment.
• Continued to manage high exposure litigation matters.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Select and supervise outside counsel and provide strategies to manage the company’s diverse portfolio of claims and lawsuits arising out of motor vehicle accidents, product liability, premises liability, intellectual.
• Handle Uniform Commercial Code secured transactions, personal guaranties, mortgages and promissory notes to help reduce the company’s credit risks.
• Regularly provide general legal guidance to senior executives, management, and employees.
• Participated on the company’s Risk Management Committee, Safety Committee, and Fleet Safety Group.
• Directed an electronic billing software implementation that now allows for online review and adjustment of all legal fees, analysis of budgets and cost trends, and automated payment of law firm invoices.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Determined defense strategies as lead counsel while managing a full caseload of products liability, premises liability, asbestos, mold, and general negligence files.
• Attended depositions and cross-examined plaintiffs, fact witnesses, and expert witnesses, including economists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, medical examiners and physicians.
• Drafted appellate briefs in both federal and state courts, dispositive motions in state courts, and discovery requests and responses in all courts.
• Argued motions in all courts, including summary judgment motions, motions to dismiss, motions to compel, and motions in limine.

• Tried numerous plaintiff personal injury and criminal defense cases, including both jury and bench trials, as first chair counsel.
• Acted as lead counsel for arbitrations, mediations, magistrate trials, and North Carolina Industrial Commission hearings.
• Extensive legal research and writing on procedural and evidentiary issues relating to wrongful death, personal injury, and worker’s compensation cases.

Erie, PA, US

• Routinely observed and analyzed trials, hearings, motions, and depositions as part of a practical experience program.
• Drafted pleadings, briefs, and discovery requests for use in labor and employment and third-party insurance defense cases.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Science/Business

Doctor Of Law - Jd