Christopher Helms Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Carlsbad, California, United States

Carlsbad, California, United States

Carlsbad, California

- Serve as an officer (Assistant Secretary) of the company's North American entities;- Support all aspects of North American corporate governance;- Manage company's legal budget and outside counsel relationships and spend;- Manage company's North American litigation, including product liability, and labor and employment;- Manage company's North American contractual relationships;- Member of company's North American product safety committee; - Support North American business with respect to compliance issues;- Provide legal support of North American M&A activities;- Manage company's global trademark portfolio;- Provide legal support for company's North American commercial policies, including antitrust compliance, warranty administration, and consumer protection; - Serve as legal point of contact when questions arise from the business.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

- Broad range of experience in commercial, employment, and environmental litigation;- Specific emphasis on shareholder and corporate governance disputes, restrictive covenants, discrimination, unfair trade practices, toxic torts, and statutory environmental claims;- Extensive trial practice experience, including taking several jury trials to verdict; - Significant appellate court experience.

J.D., Certificate In Civil Litigation, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Order of the Coif, Lead Notes Editor of Journal of Law and Commerce, Elder Law Clinic

B.A., Speech Communications

Activities and Societies: Debate Team

Speech Communication And Rhetoric

Activities and Societies: Forensics and Debate Team